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Thread #56881   Message #891831
Posted By: NicoleC
16-Feb-03 - 06:18 PM
Thread Name: Tech: How do you re-hair a fiddle bow?
Subject: RE: Tech: How do you re-hair a fiddle bow?
I would recommend a professional job -- you can quite easily ruin the bow by accident. I won't even take mine to a general shop that does them on the cheap, because they do a lousy job. It's a luthier or a bowmaker for me.

The bow may also need other work, re-arching, for example, and you *definately* don't want to try that on your own.

If you definately want to learn how, I'd start with a cheapie Brazilwood bow and a copy of VIOLIN BOW REHAIR AND REPAIR by H.S. Wake-- but by the time you do that, you might as well have paid a pro.