How it’s made - Part 3: the Neck
Measures and tips
Historically, building methods of a Violoncello da Spalla were various: internal mould, external mould, neck glued and nailed on ribs or no mould at all and ribs made on the back, the neck with the upper block built in (or passing through).
Today we make it using the internal mould and the neck is glued and nailed on the ribs.
This means that we first make the neck, then the ribs, we join them, then we make the back, then the top, and at last the fingerboard and fittings.
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Back to our bench now, this is the drawing of the neck, with measures: