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Scan 75
The Repairing & Restoration of Violins, 1903
8 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 61. See the scan on archive.org.
1DIAGRAM 26.
2Foreign secret method of grafting occasionally met with.
4DIAGRAM 27.
5Method occasionally met with, Italian.
7wood (see diagram 24), but it is beaten in this respect by another foreign method (diagram 26), which is less evident to the eye, although requiring more skill in accurate cutting and adjustment. Another yet more secret I have only seen in an Italian grafting, and it may be native; no join whatever is seen in a front view nor in the peg-box if this part is at all soiled or dusty, as is usually the case. This is owing to the join—there must be one of course—being each side at the angles formed by the walls of the peg-box. This is counterbalanced however by the necessary cutting away of the central line or ridge at the back for a considerable distance. If done accurately and
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