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Violins and other stringed instruments : how to make them ; with numerous engravings and diagrams, 1906
4 lines. Read by computer on 29 August 2026. Printed page 35. See the scan on archive.org.
1undermost. This precaution is necessary so as to lose the error of even the thickness of the paper. Before removing the paper run a finger along its edges to steady them, and delicately, so as not to push aside the paper in the least, make a mark with the awl exactly in the pencil mark. Then go over the mark again so as to deepen it, the first serving as a channel guide, and it is well to sharpen the pencil again and re-pencil the last awl mark. Add the "button" at the thin upper end, and if mistakes have been avoided so far, a great part of the difficulty is over. Now bore the large bit holes outside the figure. These must be upright, and are for the ends of the iron clamps which tighten the corner blocks of the violin.
3The delicate task of drawing an inner outline 3/4 in. from the one just drawn is now to be undertaken. It must be exact, as the figure it describes has to be cut out. A skilled worker may trust to his eye, but finely pointed compasses will be found useful. So far no pattern has been drawn on the front face of the mould. Draw a square line over the two edges, and thence along the middle of the new face to be exactly opposite the first line drawn on the wood at the start. No pains must be spared to get these middle lines truly opposite, the two faces being tested by "opposite" squaring. Deeply mark this new line. Now make two points in it at the same distance from the edges as the extremities of the fiddle outline are from their edges. Then proceed to draw the second outline. But it is not necessary to trust solely to the end squares to get these points. Bore at each end two large centre-bit holes fairly close to the inner line (on no account infringe on it or bore untruly), and by flat gouges and chisels square also from inside; then if the squaring is true at each end, and also at the upper and lower ends of the inside, the work is correct. Now carefully fix the paper pattern, on the new surface, the side of the paper with the r holes being uppermost, and trace and mark exactly as before, also drawing the inner line (no awl mark being needed
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