Making Double Basses and orchestral string instruments at the Calin Wultur Workshop in Romania. Calin Wultur Instruments are distributed worldwide exclusively by JR Music Supply, LLC. www.jrmusicsupply.com
Super nice grain of the spruce top and the maple shell & neck as well. These two seem to have profound knowledge how to do this old, old method of building bass viols.
Doublebasses are actually really cheap, compared to violins or cellos, when talking about professional instruments at least. And doublebasses from a Romanian factory wouldn't cost more than 3k, even if the craftmanship here is really really good. Very high quality factory instruments can nowadays compete with instruments made by a single luthier who spent his life making instruments, that's insane...
No offense pal, but I seriously doubt yours was made this way, unless you unloaded a boat o' dough for it. In which case you would have ordered it, and probably been briefed on the processes before hand.
I'm impressed by the high quality of polish you managed to obtain from the varnish. How do you get the "mirror" effect on oil varnishes ? Is it possible to varnish an instrument with oil based varnish and apply a last layer of spirit varnish with shellac for the finish ?
