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How to make a violin : The violin, its construction practically treated, 1892
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1strips to each length. Cut the pieces long enough. The next operation is to bend the strips, which is done with the bending iron. Heat it in a stove, but not hot enough to char the wood. Fix the handle in the bench-vice, and taking one of the strips, dip it in cold water and bend it to the required shape very gradually. If you are too hasty you will certainly break the strip. Keep the strip damp by frequent dipping. A little practice soon renders this operation easy, but care must be taken to curve square with the width, in other words, when bent the side-piece should touch the table at every point of its edge.
3The side pieces can now be fixed. At the four corners and at the point where the sides meet at the lower block the joint must be trimmed and filed till it is perfect. The eight pieces of walnut before mentioned, of the depth of one and a quarter inches, will now be wanted. Fig. 27 (p. 31) shows them in their places, and their use is to hold the sides to the blocks to which they are to be fixed by means of glue. Rub the edges of
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