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Violin making and repairing, 1927
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1of the nut over which the strings pass into the pegbox. The head and scroll should now be carefully put on one side until the graft is ready. The old neck and shoulder must not be removed from the fiddle. (It is, of course, presumed that the fingerboard and nut are removed before commencing operations on the neck.) The shoulder where it is glued against the button of the back must be cut down with a fine-toothed tenon saw parallel with the button and as close to it as possible without injury to it. The saw-cut must be continued down through the shoulder until it is close to the ribs. Another saw-cut, made from the front to back of the neck as close to the top of the edge of the belly as possible, must now be made to meet the first, thus removing the neck and shoulder, all but the portion actually glued into the chamber of the top block and that glued against the button.
3It may happen in very old fiddles that the neck is secured to the body by means of a long nail driven in through the top block and into the base of the neck. This must be looked out for in cutting downwards from the front to back of the shoulder, and on the first sign of the saw teeth coming in contact with the nail the operation must be stopped and the first cut made in front of this nail. The root of the neck must now be gradually cut away with a sharp chisel, taking care to cut, and not to lever, throughout the whole of the work. The nail may be gripped by its end with a pair of pliers and gradually forced back out of the way, until it is finally pushed right through the top block into the interior of the body, where it may be shaken out
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