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Violin making and repairing, 1927
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1maple. It is hardly necessary to add that in repairing broken scrolls or damaged necks wood must be chosen of the same character as that of the portion under repair and as near as possible in both grain and colour. It is not permissible to repair a sycamore head with material other than sycamore, and the same thing applies to bird's-eye maple.
3Re-fitting Pegs.—A simple repair to the head is the re-fitting of pegs. Old instruments which have been long in use sometimes become worn badly in the peg-holes, so much so that, without grave danger of splitting the cheeks of the pegbox they cannot be fitted with larger pegs; but the holes must be filled up and rebored, fitting with correct sized pegs after the reboring is completed. This is accomplished in the following manner: A sound length of sycamore is obtained of a slightly larger diameter than the hole which requires "bushing," as the technical term is. This length is made perfectly circular and of taper to fit the hole exactly. With the aid of a steel tapered-reamer the hole is cleaned out perfectly circular, and the sycamore plug fitted right through from one side of the pegbox to the other, allowing the plug to project slightly on each side of the outer cheeks of the pegbox. This fitting or plugging must be cautiously carried out in order to avoid splitting the pegbox cheeks which latter calamity will necessitate a more complicated repair. The fitting of the plug must be perfect, and the easiest way to ensure this is to see that both pegholes (on each side or cheek of the pegbox) are made perfectly circular, and the tapered plug also. Small flat planes (obtain-
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