Sabino Instruments

Working table with little hand held flutes and finalizing
small guitar.

Same work table with small guitar and hand held chisel.

Floor covered in wood shavings from countless
instrument creating.

Second work table with wood shavings, hand saw, and plane.

Second work table with polyurethaned version
marimacho and other hand tools to get the job done.

More hand tools, pencils, etc. hanging on a wall.

Charangos of one style cut into shape and waiting to be
worked on.

Charangos of another style cut and sanded down into 
shape. Waiting for finalized touches.

Charangos waiting to be dried out for one year before
being worked on.

Wall two of hand tools and finished charangos.

       Sabino is a local Cusconian who is an Instrument Professional in creating the various instruments that him and his two sons make within their shop. This profession and trait of craft has been past down from generation to generation within his family starting from his great great grandfather down to current  day. Considering how times have changed since then and global influences (machinery, ideas, music, food, etc.) have been introduced and perhaps somewhat adopted there has been some talk that his sons might not want to continue the line of instrument making, but as of right now his sons are continuing the line of craft and currently working on different instrumental projects. Creating Charangos is a long process of collecting materials such as wood and wood even from the way north like Canada and the USA. Using one piece of thick wood to cut out and carve the general shape of the Charango. After it has been cut into its general shape they allow the wood to dry for a year to then continue the process by shaping it into its final decor and playing shape of state. They then use different kinds of wood to then decorate and design the surface of the Charango into designs and patterns that speak to them. This is really symbolic and as much of a part of Sabino when creating his instruments. 
         When each Charango and guitar like instrument is made in terms of pattern and design for each one he pays close attention to the relationship and differences of the sound that the instrument makes and relates it to woods being used to design the instrument's look. As another general reason and relation he has with the process of designing these instruments he enjoys the aesthetics of the different woods as they are being inlaid into the look of the Charango. Sabino has a personal project that he has been working on of his own and that is his own personal guitar. The guitar has been made out of a beautiful single piece of cherry wood inlaid the edges with dark and light wood, and inlaid the dark wood for the neck and head of the guitar. There is no hole in the center of the guitar where the strings vibrate into the guitar, but there is a heart cut out just below the neck where it meets the body of the guitar and in the top left corner slits with little circles next to them. He says he designed this one that way because the guitar is like his heart and every sound/ stroking of the strings is his heart beating to the sound of the music the guitar makes and his passion for creating these musical instruments. With his craft of these instruments and making them as his profession, he enjoys seeing the same love and interests from others of the tangible and intangible feelings and connections they receive from his instruments who'd like to purchase them. Once looking at his finished pieces in the store room and the workshop room with the painstaking process to make one of these instruments, one would only be amazed at the craft and quality one can get for such a beautiful instrument with the use of hand tools. Whats more amazing is that he is located through a very obvious door that seems hidden because a merchant is parked right in front of it and on the other side of the street in front of Sabino's door to his shop is the 12 sided stone.