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The belly of the violin is only 2.5 mm thick at its thinnest
point. Such was the precision with which the belly was
constructed, with its sound-holes, back and graceful scroll.
The ribs were made in one piece by first sawing out a 30 mm
thick plate shaped to form the external contour, and then,
with infinite care, removing the inside using water-drill
and hand-tools so as to create a thin rib, no more than a
couple of millimetres thick at its thinnest point.
Stone may seem stable, static material, lacking in
"give"; but when the work on the ribs was almost complete,
they fractured at a point where the stone had a "give" of
approximately 15 mm. Diabase is a very dense crystalline
rock deriving from the interior of the Earth in the form of
magma which solidified 1.6 billion years ago.
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