AS02/ 04 Circa 1995. Handmade by François Bignon, 4/4 violin.
£3,500.00
AS02/ 04 Circa 1995. Handmade by François Bignon, 4/4 violin. Labelled: ‘Fait a la main par François Bignon 1995, Stratford House, Camp Hill.’ Hand signed: ‘Bignon’. Loosely based on an Amati model. With Larsen strings. Instrument only.
Two-piece back of regular medium grain maple. Regular fine grain maple ribs with faint curl. Regular medium grain maple scroll and neck with narrow curl. Ebony pegs, fingerboard, and chin-rest. Boxwood end-pin. Wittner tailpiece.
Golden yellow gamboge oil varnish.
Length of back: 35.6cms. String length: 33cms. Stop length: 19.4cms.
François is a workshop principal at Moseley Violins. Read more about him here