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An encyclopedia of the violin, 1925
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1and on the two straight lines of wood and along its entire length a dividing line is drawn which separates each into two equal parts.
3Now the compasses are opened 13 millimeters (13/24") and one of the points is placed on the line which is to be drawn, on the very spot where it is crossed at right angles by the line which has been drawn transversely at point G, in order to indicate the beginning of the peg box. To the left and to the right of the transverse line two points are marked off at a distance of about 25 millimeters (about 1") from each other. This measurement gives the proportion of the neck at the beginning of its handle, and the proportion of the nut found in the same place, the upper end of the neck.
5The compasses are then opened 17 good millimeters (3/4") and, placing one of the points on the point where the lower transverse line is crossed by the one which divides the neck lengthwise into two parts, there should be marked, to the left and the right of the said line, two points which will be 35 millimeters (1 1/3") apart. This is the proportion of the breadth of the neck at its extremity, which, later on, will be fitted into the body of the violin.
7This tracing having been attended to, the neck is now set in the vise so that all that portion, of which the scroll and the peg box are to be formed by means of the turning saw, rises above the bench. Then all the superfluous wood about the lines, from letter A to letter G, Figure 7, Plate 30, is removed. The shape which it is ultimately to assume is now given to this part, and there is nothing left to do to it, save to use knife and file, or whatever other tools may best answer the purpose. The neck is then coupled in its length to the transverse lower line.
9With compasses which have been opened 23 millimeters (7/8") the central line is retraced along that part of the neck which is about to be sawed, from A to E.
11Two straight lines are then drawn with the rule, running from the two points marked at the transverse line which separates the peg box from the neck, to the other two points which have also been marked at the bottom of the neck. The piece is then gripped in the vise in such a way as to leave on each side of the neck whatever lies outside of the last two lines which have been drawn, and the two saw lines are extended as far as the dotted line K——E, Figure 18, Plate 32.
13Now all that remains to be done is to turn our attention to the scroll or volute, which we do by beginning with the button with which the scroll starts. Take a gouge or rounded chisel, whose cutting edge is exactly proportioned to the edge of the scroll—after the neck has been set on the workbench and laid down on its side—hold the tool perpendicularly, and thrust it into the wood, following with exactness the line traced on the scroll. By inclining the gouge, the rounded grooves are then formed, leaving as few inequalities as possible in the grooves in question, and finishing them off
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