luthier tool

Pewter inlaying

June 14, 2018

7-Minute Read

Making a woodwind key

June 11, 2018

5-Minute Read

Long holes boring

February 20, 2018

8-Minute Read

Tapered Reamers

February 13, 2018

11-Minute Read

Thickness Punch

November 4, 2014

2-Minute Read

Here is a tool not so common, originally designed for instrument making, but that can also be used for any kind of precise woodworking.

Thickness Gauge

November 4, 2014

1-Minute Read

This is a tool for thickness calibrating, with good accuracy. It is mostly used for setting up any kind of tools having a depth stop, like the drill press or the thickness punch.

Purfling chisel

September 28, 2014

1-Minute Read

Here is a simple way to make a little chisel that aim at carving a groove for purfling inlaying.

Toothed blades

August 24, 2014

2-Minute Read

Highly figured woods like curly maple or some burled woods are very difficult to work.

Thumb planes

August 24, 2014

1-Minute Read

My personal build of thumb planes.
Funny enough, thumb plane translates “rabeau noisette” in French, which means hazelnut plane.

A two handed gouge

July 17, 2014

2-Minute Read

For rough carving the top or back of a violin, or any other archtop instrument like the mandolin or jazz guitar, there are several possible methods. The fans of power tools may use a rooter to do so, but the true amateur of the “wood feeling” will by far prefer to use the gouge.

Purfling cutter

July 16, 2014

2-Minute Read

The purfling cutter or scriber is a tool that allows scoring or cutting the thin groove that will fit the purfling on a top or back of a violin, as well as on the edge of top, back and sides of string instruments like the guitar or the mandolin. The tool allows scribing this groove parallel to the edge of the top or back.