fingerboard

Updated: May 13, 2025

Your fingerboard must be at such an angle when the neck is fixed, that the end of it near bridge must measure exactly thirteen-sixteenths of an inch from belly to top of ebony; by this means your bridge, as described, will be just a nice height for clean fingering of the strings.

Walter H. (Walter Henry) Mayson - Violin Making: 'The Strad' Library, No. IX.