Here's a photo of the lovely old bass I want to copy:

It is owned by maestro bass soloist Stefano Sciascia in Italy, and he was kind enough to take a lot of photographs of the bass from all angles and to take all the measurements I needed. So my copy will be as close as I can make without actually seeing or touching the instrument first hand.

(Photo from Stefano's website)

(photo by Brian Del Bianco)

The bass is very old, dates to the 1700's and is a beautiful shape. The top is attributed to Ruggieri.

Mould

First step, is making the mould, three sheets of 1/2" plywood. I'm using my version of a mould design i saw on Stefan Krattenmacher's website.

Cut out and spaced to final dimension of the corpus.

What? You interested in what I'm doing?