Books › Violins and other stringed instruments : how to make them ; with numerous engravings and diagrams, 1906 › scan 11
Scan 11
Violins and other stringed instruments : how to make them ; with numerous engravings and diagrams, 1906
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1LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
3FIG. PAGE
41.—Finished Violin 11
52.—Section of Sycamore or Pine cut on the Quarter 11
63.—Piece marked for Sawing down 11
74.—Jointed Piece for Violin Belly 11
85.—Apparatus for Bending Violin Ribs 12
96-9.—Bending Irons 13, 14
1010, 11.—Iron Cramps 15
1112, 13.—Cramps for Fixing Back and Belly to Ribs 15
1214.—Cramp for Fixing Linings 15
1315.—Hand-screws 16
1416.—Wood-carver's Screw 16
1517.—Spring Dividers 16
1618.—Spring Callipers 16
1719.—Steel Compasses 16
1820.—Square 16
1921.—Cutting Gauge 17
2022.—Sweeps or Curves of Gouges 17
2123, 24.—Thicknessing Gauges 18
2225.—Thicknessing Callipers 19
2326.—Register Gauge 19
2427.—Bearing or Fulcrum of Callipers 19
2528, 29.—Elevations of Thicknessing Appliance 20
2630.—Boxwood Gauge 20
2731.—Guide 20
2832-35.—Thumb Planes 23 24
2936, 37.—Plane Pattern 25
3038, 39.—Core-box 25
3140.—Lever Wedge 25
3241.—Steel Scrapers 26
3342-44.—Purfing Gauges 27, 28
3445, 46.—Cutter of Purfing Gauge 28
3547.—Purfing Gauge 29
3648.—Purfing Knife 29
3749.—Purfing Picker 29
3850.—Outside Mould 30
3951.—Inside Mould 31
4052.—Half of Outside Mould 34
4153, 54.—Outside and Inside Pattern 38
43FIG. PAGE
4455.—Mould Block ready for Sawing Out 39
4556.—Stages in Bending Waist Ribs 43
4657.—Diagram showing Directions for Cutting Corners 47
4758.—Back with Edge reduced ready for Purfing 47
4859.—Pattern for Arching Lengthwise 47
4960.—Pattern for Arching across Waist 47
5061.—Diagram showing Method of Purfing Waists and Cutting Mitres 49
5162.—Set of Ribs with Linings 51
5263.—Blocks for Hollowing 53
5364.—Diagram showing Thickness of Violin Back 54
5465.—Diagram showing Thickness of Violin Belly 55
5566.—Pattern for Sound Hole 57
5667.—Bass-bar 57
5768.—Section of Block for Making Neck and Scroll 59
5869.—Pattern for Making Violin Neck and Scroll 59
5970.—Outline of Head Back 59
6071.—Front Outline of Head 60
6172.—Pattern of Neck 61
6273.—Cutting Bevel for Shoulder 61
6374, 75.—Front and Side Views of Double Bass Violin 72
6476.—Diagram showing Position of Bass-bar, Sound-holes, etc. 73
6577, 78.—Bass-bar for Violoncello 76
6679, 80.—Japanese Violin 78
6781.—Half-size Detail of Body 80
6882-84.—Japanese Violin Handle 80
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