ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Over at the University of New Mexico (UNM), a select number of students each semester have the opportunity to learn how to handcraft a violin using tools and methods. The process takes about five semesters and hundreds of hours, but students walk away with more than an instrument at the end.

Over the course of several semesters, students make one violin, a process that takes about 400 hours. The work is almost entirely done by hand.

"While you do get more and more proficient with tools, every step of making a violin that's a different skill. That's what I think is very challenging about this process," explained third-year violin student at UNM Kedar Patwary.

The class launched back in 2008 with just a handful of students, quickly growing in size and popularity

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