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Violin Bow #623Rodney D. Mohr is currently the co-director of the Oberlin Restoration Workshop. |
 This is the story of Rodney D. Mohr's bow #623. It is a gold mounted pernambuco wood bow and will create beautiful violin music. The wood chosen was a highly flamed piece of pernambuco. The flame will dance to the music. |
 The bow was born in Oberlin, Ohio in July 2000. This picture shows Rodney D. Mohr with the tools of the of the bowmaking trade resting on the workbench. Other Oberlin workshop participants watch as the tool to be chosen for the task at hand is chosen. |
 Many gathered anxiously awaiting the outcome. The Violin Society Of America has sponsored the Oberlin Restoration Workshop with Oberlin College since 1986. It is offered every summer for violin and bow makers to learn methods and subtleties in the art of making fine stringed instruments and bows. Rodney D. Mohr taught a bowmaking class during the summer 2000 workshop. This is one bow he made while teaching a class. This bow is stamped Oberlin 2000 on one side and Rodney D. Mohr on the other. |
 In the next set of pictures you can see the process that is used in creating an ebony and gold bow frog. The first picture shows the frog blank and flat and round parts of the ferrule before they are soldered. |
 In the next view you can see how the frog blank is fit with a ferrule. The frog is then ready for the bowmaker to shape the throat. |
 
Rod holds the frog in his fingers as he as he prepares to carve the throat of the frog. You can see the knives and tools in the background. |
  The ebony is then carved into the shape of the frog. The ebony chosen to be used in the frog for this gold bow is a very fine grain. The grains are so small the naked eye cannot descern them. |
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The mortice, slide and hair track were completed and a heel plate was fit and glued. Bow 623 has a special feature on the heel. It has an inlay of abalone shell along with the gold. The wrapping is gold wire and shades of blue thread. All woven together for a beautiful fit! 
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