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The Violin: A concise exposition of the general principles of construction.., 1871
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1breast; but when the instrument is whole, the following method may be adopted. In a piece of thin hardwood of proper dimensions, cut out an elongated opening of a guitar shape, sufficiently large to allow the higher parts of the arching of the back of the Violin to pass through, and the edges to rest upon the surface; then trace the outline with a small drawpoint or tracer. Upon the dressed level surface of the back, place the model, and trace off the design carefully with drawpoint. If the first form of model is chosen, trace off one half by placing model close and even with the line of the joint, then turn over model upon the other side of the surface, and complete the tracing of outline. It will save trouble in re-measurements hereafter if the joint is thus kept running exactly through the centre of the back, and if the back is to be made from a whole pattern, then it must be placed so as to have this line passing through its centre. After the design of the back is thus marked, the plate is to be fixed in vice, and with a bow-saw, shewn in Fig. 6, the design is to be cut out by sawing pretty close to traced line. The saw should be kept as square as possible, by doing so it will save the trouble of after-paring, but the traced line should be left quite clear. When this is accomplished, the edges may be completed by paring with gouge and chisel, and finally finished to the line with file.
3The models for the arching of the back may now be
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