Today Senkow instruments are still being made as the craftsmanship is done by a son of Walt Senkow. It is a tedious process of cutting out a violin pattern on a band saw, using a router and then a sanding wheel to gradually shape out the arching design that is desired. A perfling groove is then cut into the violin plate using a small router with perfling then heated, bent into shape and carefully glued in with the mitter joints carefully done. The choice maple and spruce woods used are all from the Walt Senkow personal collection and are thought to be upwards of 100 years old and European in origin. When the top of a violin plate is achieved, the plate's back side is then sanded out using a sanding wheel along with sharp paint scrapers to make exact specified plate thickness dimensions vertified with measuring calipers. 

The graduation, or thickness, of a violin plate is very important. We believe in paying the utmost care in contouring the top plate especially the outer 2.5 mm thick contour line (as shown in photograph) The process of cutting out the F-Holes starts with exact placement of penciled in outline of F-Holes, using an exacto knife to first cut a line in center of pattern which then allows a throw away nail file in to file outwards to edge of pencil line. This is a very tedious process using also various very small wood files.

. Many violin parts started on, but never finished by Walt Senkow are eventually made into violins today by his son carrying on the Senkow tradition of American violin making excellence.