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Violin making and repairing, 1927
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1way. Now mark out on the top face to the size of the plane required. If an oval plane is required, of course the block will have to be cut to shape with chisel; if a square or oblong plane, the block itself will be dimensioned to the size required. This block must now be hollowed in order to take the iron, and the pattern given in Fig. 22 shows exactly the outside appearance of the template for a round plane when finally shaped.
3Fig. 22.—Pattern for Plane Body and Plane Iron. Fig. 23.—Plane Assembled.
5The sides of the plane need not be more than \( \frac{1}{2} \) in. thick for small thumb-planes as used in fiddle-making. The back of the plane inside, behind the iron, is solid, and forms a support against which the blade is pressed by the action of the screw through the top of the lever (see Fig. 23). It is only the inside portion of the plane in front of the lever which is hollowed out. The bottom of the plane is rounded both sidewise and from back to front. The inside of the plane is hollow from the angle at which the iron will lie when the plane is finished, and this angle leads down inside the plane to
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