Caerini Violins

11/03/2026

Before and after.

24/06/2025

Ooft, great crack.

21/05/2025

Not sure what's happened to this f hole, maybe someone trying for a sea-horse vibe or Loch Ness monster, with their teeth?

09/05/2025

A petition to save the Newark School of Violin Making. Traditional skills, heritage crafts and much needed cultural assets at risk from cuts.

Save the Newark School of Instrument Making!

09/05/2025

Very sad to hear the decision to cut courses at the Newark School of Violin Making for future students. An amazing cultural asset which could be lost for the country and beyond.

The school has announced that the degree programme will not be commencing for first-year students in the 2025-26 academic year

09/05/2025

Purfling in. Still some shaping to do with the arching and lots of finishing yet to come.

22/03/2025

All set up upstairs at Birnam Arts for the Niel Gow Festival

11/03/2025

Working away on the outline with both plates roughed out. Some more shaping to do then on to the purfling.

04/03/2025

There's a fiddle in there somewhere.

29/01/2025

Delicious...

28/01/2025

Finding great pleasure at ticking things off the new years to do list! Plates joined and linings fitted. I've made some new templates and moulds which vexed me a bit during the process but they've turned out nice, looking forward to putting them to use.