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The Violin: A concise exposition of the general principles of construction.., 1871
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1The gauge is now set to a distance a little farther from the edge than where the indenting or purfling is to be placed, and a line traced round the edge on the upper surface, where the scooped out part is formed with gouge, leaving the surface between line and edge flat, until the other part of the raised surface is completed. If the purfling or indenting tool used has a moveable slide containing the cutter, this may be used instead of the gauge, to mark the line of edge slope, by taking out the cutter and substituting a small-pointed piece of steel as a tracer.
3The upper or outside surface must now be gradually sloped with gouge, plane, and paring chisel, until it approaches in curvature to correspond with the different models, after which the wavings or tool marks are obliterated with a file, and the surface finished with fine sand or glass paper.
5If the curvatures have been carefully wrought, the models will now fit upon the respective surfaces equally, and the archings will bear no important dissimilarity from those of the model violin chosen. In cutting off the superfluous wood, the tools must be kept very sharp, as there is difficulty in working cleanly some specimens of plane which are highly marked, unless the edge is keen, and the run of the wood must also be observed—in short, the tool must always cut, and never tear the woody fibres.
7This, as well as the other parts of violin making, will be found to take time, patience, and application, but when the work is accomplished in a creditable manner, there is the more pleasure attached to it after-
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