Welcome to our forum. A Message To Our New and Prospective Members . Check out our Forum Rules. Lets keep this forum an enjoyable place to visit.
Private messaging is working again.
Log In
Register
Home
Topic RSS
(0 votes) 
Regulars
Offline
I have a broad interest in seeing if aspects of the violin bow could be modernized to allow for greater ease in the process of rehairing. I noticed in eBay auction listings that the Kay bow frogs have an exposed screw on the slide area. I have attempted to purchase one for examination but I have thus far been unsuccessful (there are economic limits to my curiosity). Does anyone have one or worked on one? I want to know if this screw is just a means of removing the slide or is it employed on some mechanism to secure the hair on the frog.
Success is the progressive realisation of a worthy ideal. —Earl Nightingale.
Offline
That screw is for removing the slide which is not really a slide in this case.
That is a great idea though, making a bow which would be simple to re-hair.
"The richest person is not the one who has the most,
but the one who needs the least."
Regulars
Offline
I found a patent (#1,912,961 of June 6, 1933) for a steel fabricated bow, but it looks to have made use of conventional wood wedges for the hair. I also came across a single eBay ad where a combination of horse hair hank/bow frog was sold at a cost of about $9 shipped from China. This technique would solve half the problem.
I would be remiss if I did not thank Fiddlerman for determining that the screw on the slide of the Kay bow frog did not yield some secret mechanism.
Success is the progressive realisation of a worthy ideal. —Earl Nightingale.
Offline
Irv said
I would be remiss if I did not thank Fiddlerman for determining that the screw on the slide of the Kay bow frog did not yield some secret mechanism.
You are welcome. 
"The richest person is not the one who has the most,
but the one who needs the least."
1 Guest(s)
Fiddlerman
ELCBK
Mouse
