Appearance, sound and optimal playability

At the same time, we always keep the playability of your instrument in mind during our work - from the technical alignment of the neck angle to the bridge shape and the condition of the fingerboard. After all, we want your playing to be easy and you to enjoy your restored stringed instrument every day anew.

Small corrections, big effect

A stringed instrument is a sensitive system consisting of bridge, soundpost, tailpiece and strings, neck angle, fingerboard and bass bar. Precise tuning of these components can open up new worlds of sound for your instrument. We will be happy to advise you on whether such fine-tuning is worthwhile in the case of your instrument. Ask us!

Particularly cautious thanks to high-tech

We work according to the restoration principle: minimally invasive and reversible. If we have to replace old patches or repair worm damage, we work in our studio with a 3D scanner and CNC milling machine. Thanks to this modern standard, we can create perfectly fitting inlays even for extremely complex shapes and reduce the loss of original material to a minimum. We also do not have to remove any original wood for edge doubling thanks to these state-of-the-art techniques.

  • Condition of the soundboard before restoration: thanks to our inlay method using 3D scanning and CNC milling, we were able to restore this soundboard of a cello by G. Grancino in a minimally invasive way.
  • Removal of the old patches revealed a thick layer of glue.
  • Wormholes and cracks were also clearly visible.
  • We removed virtually no original substance, only removed and cleaned the old patches.
  • Using a 3D scanner, we created a very precise scan of the surface.
  • Preparation of the patch: the spruce wood is joined as in the original. The top of the Grancino Cello consists of two larger pieces with flanks set on both sides.
  • First milling operation with a 10 mm ball end mill.
  • Fine milling with a 10 mm ball end mill.
  • After the last milling operation with a 1.2 mm ball nose end mill.
  • Precision finished patch - ready for gluing.
  • Gluing in the patch, of course with reversible bone glue.
  • Finest handwork.
  • Detail photo: the result with the joint and matching annual rings.
  • The result with a new bass bar.
  • For the restoration of the worm damage in this Venetian violin, our inlay method was also used.
  • A very important step is the selection of the wood. Here we paid attention to the annual ring width and the flames.
  • After scanning, we made the inlay with our CNC milling machine.
  • Gluing in the individual areas.
  • The result of this minimally invasive repair.