Stradivari's cradle
Used to hold the belly and back
(or entire violin)
while carving and scraping.

Stradivari's PG mold
One of the Master's favorites and used to make Itzhak Pearlman's "Soil" Stradivarius violin

Stradivari's G mold

Stradivari's P mold

Clamping Blocks for gluing the ribs onto the cornerblocks

A closer look

Stradivari's finger planes

Stradivari's scrapers
For smoothing the wood instead of sandpaper

Stradivari's thickness calipers

Stradivari's thickness marking tool
There are still small marks inside some of his instruments from this tool

A steel thickness caliper
(sorry about the cut off picture)

Miscellaneous marking tools that Stradivari used