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Violin making and repairing, 1927
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1portant, and on this portion of the work depends in no small measure the final result of tone value. Do not suffer any lumps, roughness, or holes to have place on the finished surface of the inside. It should be as carefully glasspapered and finished as the outside, and
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5Fig. 26.—Back showing Guide Lines for Inside Gouging: Shaded parts Flat.
7the callipers should show a gradual diminution of opening as they are drawn from the centre to the outside edges in every direction, without any sign of hollow or lump. If these are suffered to remain in the plate, the workmanship, however neat in other respects, will go for nothing.
9When this work is satisfactorily accomplished, take a fine half-round file and carefully round over the inside
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