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Violins and other stringed instruments : how to make them ; with numerous engravings and diagrams, 1906
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1back, to prevent the latter being marked, and also to extend the pressure over the blocks. Use the violin cramps all round, and when all are secure, sponge all the glue from inside.
3After a few hours, clean the inside with fine glass-paper, affix a label, and glue the belly on. If any glue should run down the inside, sponge it out directly, as there will not be another chance; but be quick, or the glue will be cold. When the belly is set, remove the cramps, and cut the recess for the bottom nut or rest, over which the tail-band or mainbrace passes. With the dividers opened to ⅛ in., make a dot close inside the purfling at each side of the centre joint, and with a knife and small straight-edge cut out the oblong piece of the belly thus described, and fit a piece of ebony ⅛ in. square into the recess. When set, curve and file the ebony to the same sweep as the belly round it, and at ⅛ in. from each end curve it down to the belly. The "box" is now made, and begins to look like a fiddle.
5The neck is next wanted, and the block from which it is made is a piece of sycamore 10½ in. long, 2 in. broad, and 2½ in. deep. The 2 in. side should be that nearest the bark of the tree. Plane this side true, and call it the "face." Next plane both 2½ in. sides true and with the same bevel from the "face," and saw one end square off. The block, when ready for use, should be 10½ in. long, 2½ in. deep, and 1½ in. on the face side, with an end section like Fig. 68. It will now be convenient to make a centre line along the face, square it down each end, and continue with a straight-edge along the under side. If the worker is fortunate enough to get a piece 2 in. wide both top and bottom, his labour will be considerably reduced, as it will be much easier to make the cuts true or square. It will be of very great convenience if a neck and scroll of good pattern are at hand for reference at this stage of the work.
7Fig. 69, the pattern of the neck and scroll, will be cut out, as well as the other patterns, in zinc or thin wood. The neck block being now ready, lay the pattern
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