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Violins and other stringed instruments : how to make them ; with numerous engravings and diagrams, 1906
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1scroll. Between the gauge mark and the centre line, from o round to c, the hollows should next be carved. With a fine file bevel off the edges all round the head and scroll as far as the compass lines; now carefully glasspaper all over, leaving the edges of the bevels quite sharp. Much of this work will be saved if the neck and scroll is purchased already shaped.
3The ebony finger-board will be bought ready made. With the veneer plane, make it true on the flat side, then mark a centre line along it. The "face" of the neck should also be toothed over with the same plane, and the centre line be freshened up.
5For cutting the peg-holes, place the neck pattern (Fig. 72) flush with the neck and to the marks r and i, and trace firmly the lines o o, p p p, and also make the four dots where the peg-holes will have to be bored. Repeat the process in corresponding position on the other side of the neck, and with a tenon saw cut down o o, keeping square across centre mark at i. Now square the centre line down the face thus cut.
7The finger-board should now be glued on (use only two or three drops of glue, as it must come off again before the fiddle is varnished), with the centre line coinciding with that on the neck, and the narrow end of the board touching the line h. The board being cramped fast with hand-screws, the nut should be glued on. It is a piece of ebony 1/8 in. deeper than the thickest part of the narrow end of finger-board, 1/8 in. wide and 1/8 in. long. Both nut and board being quite set, which they will do much more rapidly if made hot before they are glued, put the neck, board downwards, in the vice, and cut just outside line p p p with the bow saw. This done, file down to the line, using a small straight-edge to try the evenness of the neck, between the curves.
9Remove the neck from the vice, and place the shoulder pattern (Fig. 73) with the top side close under, and even with the edges of the finger-board, and mark down both sides and across the bottom of pattern. With a gouge, followed with a broad chisel, cut to the lines last made,
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