"Sassy Fat Ass"
​Appalachian Fiddle

This little sweetheart combines the rounded backside of a lute or mandolin, with the overall look of a violin, a virtual fifth string, and a fretless neck. Carved from a single piece of HRB, with rare pin-burl grain. (Pin burl actually has spines growing out of it like hedgehog, or a sea urchin.) Includes a tiny brass-inlaid bow, Inlaid brass nut, bridge, and fretboard edging. Old World craftsmanship, with no computerization or chemical finishes in its making. 

Artist: Nancy R Koerner, 2019

Materials: Honduran rosewood pin-burl heartwood, brass, and brass beads. Brass rod, on mixed exotic hardwood base. Housed in glass dome w/ black acrylic base.

​Dimensions: "Sassy Fat Ass Fiddle" 3.625” tall x 1.5” wide x .75 ” thick. Dome 5” tall x 3” diameter.

Signature: Features NK ’19 monogram on fiddle back, lower left corner, and NK “etching” on glass dome .

Other info: Honduran rosewood burl is a planetary legacy, one of the rarest, most valuable, and most collectible woods in the world. This heirloom quality, one-of-a-kind, HRB creation represents the heavenly after-life of a tree, a breathtaking reincarnation of natural living beauty. The raw rosewood is legally imported by the artist, who is licensed and permitted under USDA/APHIS regulation, and approved by C.I.T.E.S. (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species) as an environmentally-friendly enterprise.