Scan 83
How to make a violin : The violin, its construction practically treated, 1892
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1inch. This 11-12 inch shows the width of the neck at the beginning of the part held by the hand, and also the width of the nut (the small piece of ebony over which the strings pass out of the peg-box).
3Open the compasses 5-8 of an inch, and put one leg on the angle made by the long line and the cross line on the narrow side opposite to that on which you have been working, and mark as before upon the cross line two points on either side of the long line, the distance between which will be 1 1-4 inch. This 1 1-4 inch is to be the thickness of the neck at the point where it joins the belly.
5Now fasten the neck to the table with the hand-vice, the broad side upwards, so that the scroll end projects over the edge of the table, and cut away with the bow-saw all the superfluous wood. Begin at point G, (Fig. 37) and proceed along the line F E up into the corner; then start from C and work past D round the curve to the corner point; start again from C, work round the top past B down to A. This gives a rough outline,
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