Smuikas "Venezia"

Quick Spec: 

Selected, Hand-carved Spruce Top; Selected, Hand-carved Maple Back, Ribs, Neck and Scroll; Ebony Fingerboard, Pegs, End Pin, Tailpiece and Chin Rest; Single gilt finetune tailpiece adjuster; Antique, oil-based varnish application.

Looks and sounds more beautiful throughout its life:

Hidersine Venezia instruments feature a hand-carved solid spruce top – or sound-table. This is important because your instrument’s primary voice is formed by this sound-table, and therefore the top can resonate as a single, coherent structure and sound great as a result. Plus, as the wood ages and the solid tonewood top gradually relaxes at a cellular level into its natural rest state, it will resonate even more naturally, and the sound will improve further.
Hidersine Venezia Violins and Violas not only have solid tops, but they also have beautiful solid, flamed Maple ribs and backs too. These highly figured, solid tonewood sections further enhance the instrument’s natural tone. The top produces the instrument’s primary voice, and the back and sides add the character.
(The term ‘Flamed’ refers to the figuring of the Maple grain, which looks like flames striking across the wood. Maple with a natural ‘flame’ is highly prized, with the most intricate and stunning natural grain patterns demanding very high prices throughout the world of musical instruments.)