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Old Work Shop Tour
Materials
Contact Information
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There are lots of materials
used to make the fittings. Every
professional knows about the long-used boxwood, ebony and rosewood. However, today there are many new woods
used in making fittings. Recently I
have been fortunate to have made contact with a very famous carver who carves
the most beautiful boxwood fittings in the old Vuillaume and Hill styles,
made from over thirty year old boxwood, that I own and send to him
periodically. I also use fittings
made in Brazil of caviuna, that resembles rosewood and jacaranda (a variety
of rosewood) that is similar to pernambuco wood. All of my instruments are fitted with the best materials
available and you can either select at that stage or at the beginning as
commissioned. |
John Sipe Fittings
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