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How to make a violin : The violin, its construction practically treated, 1892
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1The making of the varnishes, both spirit, and oil, is treated in the next chapter.
3The best tool to lay on the varnish is a flat camel-hair or sable brush, about an inch wide, and which has never been used. The varnish being ready, take a small quantity in a glazed earthenware vessel. Have as little varnish as possible at a time in the brush, and take only two strokes, one up and the other down, over each part of the wood. Take care and "lay it off" evenly, as a painter would say—that is, work so that the marks of the brush are invisible, and as if the varnish had all been put on with one simple stroke. Try your hand first on two pieces of maple and pine, both treated and prepared for varnishing just like the violin, and do not touch the instrument with varnish until you have put two coats of oil varnish on each piece as an experiment. When you have succeeded in getting a brilliant surface, from which brush-marks are totally absent, you can venture on your violin. After each coat of spirit varnish, polish with a linen cloth, the older the
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