Scan 44
How to Make a Violin, and Violin Notes by Ole Bull. Revised edition., 1910
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18 inches long and 2 wide; it is very brittle and whitish at the broken edge. Common glue is of no use at all. Break a quantity in small pieces and put it in cold water for four hours, which will soften and swell it up. Then take a small glue pot of the ordinary kind, but with the inner vessel enamelled. Add water slowly; when the glue is all dissolved it should be of the consistency of very thick oil. Take care that it never boils. The glue should always be used very hot, but never boiling. While making, stir it gently with a stick of pine wood, and in using it apply it to the wood with a large camel hair pencil. In summer, glue will dry in four hours; in winter it needs twelve, and, in the latter case, the edges of the wood should be carefully warmed before the glue is put on. When two pieces are glued together, scrape away with a chisel any drops which escape, while they are hot, or with a pencil dipped in warm water. It cannot be too often repeated that only the very best glue obtainable is of any use for violin making.
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