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Violins and other stringed instruments : how to make them ; with numerous engravings and diagrams, 1906
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1for safety cramp them into position with iron cramps, and put the whole in a warm place to dry. After the joints are thoroughly hard (twelve hours at least should be allowed), plane the flat sides of each piece quite true every way—lengthwise, crosswise, and diagonally.
3For "truing up" the back, a violin maker advises the use of a plane of the same size as a "jack" plane, but having a coarse-toothed iron, almost vertical. For truing the belly use the trying plane.
5The back and belly are now ready for marking from the ribs, and as the ribs are not made they must be got together. Take the inside model into which the six blocks have been glued, and plane these down to the level of the model, but take care not to injure the latter in doing so. With a straight-edge continue the centre lines on the model across each of the end blocks. Place the inside pattern to the centre line and even with the model all round, and then carefully trace the outline on the blocks; now turn the pattern and mark the other blocks in the same way. This done, write on each block, inside the marks, figures corresponding with those on the model, and repeat the whole process on the other side. With a No. 4 gouge (see Fig. 22, p. 17) cut out the hollows in the insides of the waist blocks; if the wood is cutting inwards turn the model over and cut from the other side. Do not cut within the marks, and carve only the insides of the waist blocks at present. Make twenty light cuts rather than one too deep. Fix the model edgewise in a wooden vice, and, with the round side of a file to fit the sweep, take out all the inequalities which may have been made in carving, and make the hollows square across. The filing gives a better gluing surface for attaching the ribs.
7The next operation is to prepare the rib strips for bending. With one of the iron cramps fasten one of the strips by its extreme end to the bench, inserting a small piece of wood or cork under the cramp so as not to damage the rib; and with the veneer plane work from the clamp to the end of rib, and take off the rough part
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