This renaissance cister is now shown in Ashmolean museum in Oxford. It is one of the finest cister instruments from the renaissance time.

• Body made out of curly maple
• Soundboard made out of fine european spruce
• The rose is carved from pearwood with a glued on layer of parchment inside. The design is the original one
• The neck is made oud of maple having the typical cister design as you may see in the pics on the left
• The pegbox is nomally decorated with a scroll or on request ther may be a carved head like on the original instrument
• The fretboard is made out of plumwood.
• The fretting may be temperated or a meantone fretting as it was usual in the 16th century In the case of meantone fretting the frets will be marked with coulored wooden strips, also shown in the pics.
• The string length is 45 cm, the stringing is metal ( brass )
• The pebbox may be worked in different versions: with a scroll or with carved head.
• For the pegs I use plum wood, a very good wood for this purpose or boxwood
• The body is varnished with french polishing

Anyway, there exists some more cister models that are worth to make a copy of. Furthermore a bass cister exists in Italy.