Scan 69
How to make a violin : The violin, its construction practically treated, 1892
4 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 55. See the scan on archive.org.
1The plane and scrapers must not reduce your wood to the given thicknesses; these must be finished and brought down to their proper guage with glass paper. The glass paper is the last "tool" to be used on the wood, and when the rectangular is thus finished the compass buttons should move quite easily over it, but touch it at all points.
3Make a second hard-wood wedge for the back, of course one-twenty-fourth of an inch thicker in all parts than that for the belly.
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