Ming Jiang Zhu, a world class luthier, makes Strad copies with beautiful Italian details. All the wood is well seasoned with highly flamed maple and evenly grained European spruce.Then he creates an oil antique finish by hand. After playing his violins for the first time, you can hardly believe how even and powerful they sound even before they have been broken in. The tone has the quality of violins selling for twice as much..
