Purfling Machine: Eight Views
This is the tool I designed and built over 20 years ago for cutting purfling grooves.
Glued Strips, or Not?
Some makers theorize that the early Cremonese makers inlaid purfling in three separate, unglued strips, the way French makers of the 1800s did. That has never appeared to me to be the case, and here’s one Cremonese violin, a Brothers Amati from 1605, where there’s obvious proof that the purfling was glued together before it …