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Scan 90
The violin, how to make it, 1880
2 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 84. See the scan on archive.org.
1to be placed. This tool may be made from iron—with the exception of the cutters, of course—and fixed in an ordinary tool-handle. Another purfling tool, but much simplified, is shown in Fig. 25. The body of this tool may be formed from a piece of beech, having two cutters the same as the preceding, fixed by a binding-screw. This simple tool answers admirably, and may be easily made by any amateur, or can be purchased for about 2s. 6d. The angular parts of the blades must be made thin, and the edges kept very keen. Either of those two tools is to be held quite steady, and a double cut of the proper depth run round the margin of the back and breast; the interior wood is afterwards to be cleanly cut out with a chisel-sharpened awl, as in Fig. 26. The indenting groove must be cut gradually and carefully, never allowing the tool to tear the wood, or slip from the proper place. At the parts of the back and breast opposite to the extremities of the neck, where the indenting tool does not reach, two pencil lines may be drawn through the
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