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Violins and other stringed instruments : how to make them ; with numerous engravings and diagrams, 1906
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1VIOLIN MAKING.
3With coarse glasspaper, followed by fine, the top should next be made round. The edges of the belly should now be made round in the manner described for the back. The sound-holes, when finished, will be rather larger than the pattern, as they have been traced inside a zinc pattern, and it is intended that all the lines should be cut away.
5Before fixing the ribs to the back, the blocks should
7Fig. 66.—Pattern for Sound Hole.
8Fig. 67.—Bass-bar.
10be sized by giving them a good coat of glue, then burning the glue with a hot iron, afterwards rasping off the burnt glue. This effectually stops the blocks from absorbing any more glue. A coat of very thin glue on the rib edges is also beneficial. The ribs may now be glued; place them on the back to the position marked from the outside, and cramp down the end blocks with iron cramps, having a piece of wood between cramp and
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