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How to make a violin : The violin, its construction practically treated, 1892
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1towards the peg-box, so as to present a rounded surface on which the strings may rest.
3The string-guard is usually a small piece of ebony about an inch long and a quarter-of-an-inch square, which is glued into an inlet made in the block at the lower end. Its outer surface must be level with the side pieces, into which it must fit accurately. An edge should be left upon it to stand one-sixteenth of an inch above the belly, and it should be trimmed to the surface of the latter. The edge over which the strings pass must be rounded so that they are not cut. The four slits in the nut should not be cut, but filed out with a rat-tail file.
5The making of the button presents no difficulty. It is a sort of drawer-handle on a small scale, made of ebony, with a projecting limb about an inch long, and three-eighths of an inch in diameter, which fits accurately into a hole of that size bored through the side-pieces and into the block, and we are now ready to begin to varnish.
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