Welcome to Howery Violins.
Will Howery is a violinmaker and luthier working and living on Amelia Island. He also plays violin with the Amelia Island String Ensemble.
Hand crafted Violins and Violas direct from the maker that you can afford. Please look at the Rental/Purchase information!
My Violin Studio is at my residence. When you plan to visit, please make an appointment via The Shop Appointment Calendar. Thank You.
Will Howery, maker and restorer of fine violins, violas, and cellos, is also the creator of the Instrument Passport Project — a secure digital system for tracking instrument provenance, materials, and authenticity.
Learn more at https://InstrumentPassport.com
Will’s Blogs
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Violin Juliet. Trimming the linings and blocks
Violin Juliet. Trimming the linings and blocks. #violinmaker #luthier #savannah #jacksonville #ameliaisland #violin #staugustine #stmarys
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Violin Juliet- top linings glued in
Violin Juliet- top linings glued in. #luthier #violinmaker #violinjuliet #savannah #jacksonville #ameliaisland #fernandinabeach
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Playing Violin Karl in Nature: Emily Dickinson (1830–86). Complete Poems. 1924. Part Two: Nature LXXV OF all the sounds despatched abroad, There ’s not a charge to me Like that old measure in the boughs, That phraseless melody The wind does, working like a hand 5 Whose fingers comb the sky, Then quiver down, with tufts of tune Permitted gods and me. When winds go round and round in bands, And thrum upon the door, 10 And birds take places overhead, To bear them orchestra, I crave him grace, of summer boughs, If such an outcast be, He never heard that fleshless chant 15 Rise solemn in the tree, As if some caravan of sound On deserts, in the sky, Had broken rank, Then knit, and passed 20 In seamless company.
Playing Violin Karl in Nature: Emily Dickinson (1830–86). Complete Poems. 1924. Part Two: Nature LXXV OF all the sounds despatched abroad, There ’s not a charge to me Like that old measure in the boughs, That phraseless melody The wind does, working like a hand 5 Whose fingers comb the sky, Then quiver down, with…
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Home sweet home!!! I’m in Michigan with my wife’s family for a medical emergency. Violins evacuated, our cats are watching my tools… Many friends in the midst of Matthew… hoping for the best
Home sweet home!!! I’m in Michigan with my wife’s family for a medical emergency. Violins evacuated, our cats are watching my tools… Many friends in the midst of Matthew… hoping for the best!! #fernandinabeach #ameliaisland
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Violin Juliet, bass bar shaped and tuned back to the free plate harmonics
Violin Juliet, bass bar shaped and tuned back to the free plate harmonics. #luthier #violinmaker #violinjuliet #savannah #jacksonville #ameliaisland #stmarys #brunswick
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Violin Juliet working on the F-holes
Violin Juliet working on the F-holes. #violin #violinjuliet #stmarys #saintaugustine #georgia #ameliaisland #violinmaker #luthier #jacksonville #savannah
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Starting Juliet’s volute as tropical storm Julia passes overhead
Starting Juliet’s volute as tropical storm Julia passes overhead. #florida #fernandinabeach #luther #violinmaker #georgia #saintaugustine #stmarys #violinjuliet #violin
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Juliet, laying out the F-Holes
Juliet, laying out the F-Holes. #violin #luthier #violinmaker #violinjuliet #brunswick #savannah #stmarys #jacksonville #saintaugustine #florida #georgia
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First color varnish on Ivan
First color varnish on Ivan. #violinivan #luthier #violinmaker #violin #Georgia #Florida #NorthFlorida #saintaugustine #jacksonville #stmarys #savannah #brunswick
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New York Times article review on applying technology to Craftsmanship
I found this article last week in the New York Times August 28th Edition. The article was title , “Packing Technology into the Timeless Barrel” (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/28/business/packing-technology-into-the-timeless-barrel.html?_r=0). The article discussed how barrel making has not essentially changed for the past several hundred years, much like violin making. However the industry and competitive forces have changed, and…