"Portrait of master violin maker Charles Rufino, 66, sitting in the light of a south-facing window at his carpet-covered workbench. The tools of his craft surround him. ""I'm trying to do this one thing well,"" he says, ""I enjoy the awareness when I'm working and shaping and cutting the wood. I'm the luckiest man I know.""  Charles has been crafting string instruments since 1974. April 4, 2018. 
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