Bow & Bridge Violin and bow makers, as the old books printed them

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Scan 14

Violin making and repairing, 1927

8 lines. Read by computer on 18 September 2026. No printed page number was found. See the scan on archive.org.

1marked out as follows: At the top end of the block measure down each corner from the face 1 3/6 in., and connect these two points with the bottom corners (back) along each side of the block, and also with each other along the top edge by means of a pencil mark (see Fig. 5). Then proceed to thickness the block from the
3![Diagram of a violin outside mould with cut-out part shaded](https://i.imgur.com/3Q5z5QG.png)
5Fig. 4.—Outside Mould with Cut-out part shown Shaded.
7back face exactly to these lines by means of the trying plane, finishing with smoothing plane, and finally glass-paper, exactly on the lines. Now rule a pencil line A A (Fig. 5) completely round the block from top to bottom in the exact centre of the material, and deepen this line by means of a steel marking-point. Use the square on the ends of the block to rule the lines from the front to the back of the mould.

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