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An Encyclopedia of the Violin, 1925
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1tracer or a knife point in the flat surface of the foot of the neck and in that portion of it which is to rest on the nut. This will allow the glue to act more effectively.
3PLACING THE FINGER BOARD ON THE NECK; THE NUT AT THE UPPER END OF THE NECK AND THE NUT AT THE TAILPIECE
5The glueing of the foot of the neck having been completed and the glue having dried, the next thing to do is to glue the finger board to the neck.
7The finger board, being perfectly trimmed and having the thickness and the proportions already indicated, is now glued fast to the neck, care being taken to leave an interval of 5 millimeters (1/6") between the top of the finger board and the bottom of the peg box and its right-hand end. This space is intended to receive the nut at the upper end of the neck.
9To glue the finger board it is only necessary to cover the flat of the neck with glue and then set the finger board on this glue, pressing it tightly into place, and taking care that it does not shift over to either side, which may easily be prevented, since the two lines drawn on the neck at the right and left indicate its position.
11A piece of ebony of the right size to supply a nut should now be taken and planed down to a height of about 8 millimeters (about 1/3") and a breadth of 6 millimeters (1/8") and then should be glued in its place. This piece will naturally project slightly beyond the two sides of the violin neck.
13The nut at the tailpiece is a piece of ebony placed above the end pin of the instrument, that is to say, at the opposite extremity of the violin. It is intended to support the piece of gut string which attaches the tailpiece to the tailpin. This nut is usually 28 millimeters (little over 1") long by 7 millimeters (7/25") high.
15In order to make it more solid, it is forced to enter into the sound board about 7 millimeters (7/25") and as far into the ribs.
17This part is so simple that the least practiced eye need only to see one in order to make a duplicate at once. The only precaution which should be taken when making it is to bring it high enough above the sound board to prevent the tailpiece from touching the latter, and then to round it off at the angle which is to hold the loop of the tailpiece, in such a way that the latter will not cut it.
19When the glue of the nuts and of the finger board has dried, the larger portions of the superfluous wood about the two nuts are removed with the knife, and a file is used to give the desired shape to these two pieces. Then the nut over which the strings pass is arranged in such wise that it is only 1 millimeter (1/25") higher than they are.
21In conclusion the knife is used to shape up the grip or haft of the neck, which should just touch the finger board at its sides; the knife marks are filed away and the whole smoothed with glass paper.
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