The following materials were used to make the violin. The only materials that did not originate in Sonoma County were the modern strings and the metal for the fine tuner and the chinrest brackets.
- Wood
- Redwood – Violin top or “soundboard”, bass bar, sound post
- Applewood – Back neck and sides. From the Sebastopol apple orchards
- Manzanita – Fingerboard, tailpiece, chinrest, pegs, endpin
- Pacific Madrone – Bridge
- Box Elder – Purfling whites and blacks, blocks, linings
- Flowering pear – Marquetry inlay
- Cow tendons – glue
- Sheep gut – Tail gut
- Sheep fleece – used in failed attempt to distill turpentine
- Dogbane – Twine for securing tailgut
- Mulberry fiber – Paper for label
- Abrasives
- Horsehair – polishing abrasive
- Equisetum – sanding abrasive
- Red earth
- Polishing agents
- High proof alcohol – commercially produced by Young and Yonder.
- Beeswax
- Varnish making materials
- Pine sap – For turpentine and resin
- Walnut oil
- Dyes and colorants
- Grape skins
- Carbon ball mushroom
- Acorns (tanin)
- Red earth
- Walnut Hulls – Ink for label
- Lye (Cleaning agent. Color extracting agent) from the ashes of Oak trees burned in the Glass Fire of 2020
Details of collecting, and refining the materials can be seen in the “Made local” section of the Journal