seven-sixteenths

Updated: June 3, 2025

After that, on the face of the wood that is to say, the front, as though looking at the fingerboard, I mark at four-and-a-quarter inches from end of the head, which is to be the end of peg-box, and three inches from that, the narrow end of said box that is to be cut. Then I take centre of narrow end and mark off seven-sixteenths of an inch width of said end, five-eighths of an inch for broad end.

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