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Contents:
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Parts of the bow
See http://www.drbows.com/diagram.html for a nice illustration
A few terms prove useful in consistently writing and talking about bows:
Stick - the wood itself, used sometimes for the entire bow
Head - the far end of the bow
Frog - the moving ebony part
Head plate or facing - usually bone cover at the bottom of the head, generally
lined with ebony
Button or tip - the adjuster
Eye - decorative inlay usually of mother of pearl on the sides of the frog or end of tip
Mortise - holes carved in head and frog to hold hair; also hole allowing eyelet to
reach shaft
Plug - maple block wedged into mortise to hold hair in place
Slide - movable cover over mortise and hair in frog
Ferrule - D section metal band over end of frog
Wedge - thin wood piece spreading and holding hair across ferrule
Lining - metal on frog. Half lined frogs have only the contact surface with the stick
faced with metal. Fully lined frogs have metal continuing from the slide around the
back of the frog
Eyelet - screws into frog and holds the frog to the stick by engaging shaft in stick
mortise
Shaft - threaded steel rod extending from tip into body of stick and engaging eyelet
to hold and adjust frog
Wrap - silver or other wire, thread, leather, or imitation whalebone guarding the
stick from the fingers
Grip - the thicker leather swell the thumb rides against adjacent to the frog
Weight - in grams, of the entire bow generally
Balance point - measured several ways, in this shop by mm ahead of the
hair-edge of the frog
Stiffness - resistance to flexing, in this shop measured with a Stroup stiffness
gauge, in units of thousands of an inch
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Bow Information
Bow Observations
History of Brazilian Bowmaking
Pernambuco
Bow and Pernambuco Links
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Bows at Gianna Violins
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