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Violins and other stringed instruments : how to make them ; with numerous engravings and diagrams, 1906
8 lines. Read by computer on 29 August 2026. Printed page 61. See the scan on archive.org.
1square lines across the face at F H, and 5 1/2 in. from F the line I.
3The outline may be cut out by a narrow band saw, which is safer than the bow saw. If the neck is being made from a piece like Fig. 68, a piece of deal sufficiently thick to make the unmarked side lay square on the saw table had better be glued on. After being sawed out, remove the remnants of the strip, and mark this side in a corresponding way to the other side. The centre marks will have been partially taken out by the saw, and the line must now be continued all round the head from F to G. Now square a line across the back at G. With the compasses open 3/4 in., set out that distance each side of the centre line at I; close the compasses to 1/16 in., and mark so much off each side of centre line at F, and with a pencil and straight-edge make a line over the marks on each side, but extend them to E. The sides thus marked out should be sawn down, and then cut square off at E.
5Trace the scroll outlines (Figs. 70 and 71) in their places, as marked on the patterns. Open the compasses to 1 3/8 in., and draw them down each side of the head from the end of line C to F; one point of the compasses will be at the side, and the other will mark out the cheeks of the peg-box, which, being thus described or marked, should at once be cut out with gouges and chisels. When this has been done, file the cheeks clean and square. Now fasten the neck edgeways in the vice, and with a dove-tail saw or fine tenon saw cut down just outside the lines K K, L L, M M, N N, but not so deep as to cut into the lines marked from Figs. 70 and 71. Next saw at right angles with these cuts, and along the marks made from Figs. 70 and 71.
7The rough wood is now taken off, and with gouges of various shapes it should now be possible, constantly referring to the model, to carve out a respectable scroll. Afterwards the head should be scraped and glasspapered, and sponged over with cold water; this will throw up the defects. When it is quite dry, gauge, with the compasses opened 1/16 in., lines all round the head and
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