Find them here:Search the site SearchLearning Lutherie at the Chicago School of Violin MakingIt takes some 300 hours to hand-craft a violin - if everything goes to plan. Chicago School of Violin Making student Rob Hermann. At the Chicago School of Violin Making: Martha Kinzel, Antoine Nédélec, Jeff Phillips and Laurie Niles. He had a little more than a week to get it ready for the Oberlin Violin Makers Workshop, the annual intensive for violin makers in northern Ohio. Sepas Selgi carving a scroll at the Chicago School of Violin Making.