Most 30-year-olds spend their days working in front of computers. Giancarlo Arcieri, 35, spends his plying wood with knife in his Midtown Manhattan violin shop. His father Carlos Arcieri, also a violin maker, taught him the trade, and Giancarlo made his first violin when he was just 19 years old. The key to good violin making? A love of knives.

 

Produced by Anne Noyes Saini. Find more of Anne’s work at www.cityspoonful.com

Photos by Renan Dario Arango.