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Trade Secrets: Creating neck graft sockets – part one

2025-06-27T08:47:00

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The first of two articles on this topic gives a full and thorough account of casting a scroll and pegbox

By Greg Sapp

Luthier based in Batavia, IL, US

Violin makers are increasingly realising that state-of-the-art technology has broadened the scope of work that they can accomplish, and dramatically reduced the invasive nature of many traditional repair strategies that they had been using for many years. These advances have the potential to improve efficiency while imparting less trauma to the instruments being worked on…

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