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Pictured is the hardwood dowell, tapered on one end via our tuning peg sharpener to an exactly matching 30-to-one taper.

With the painting dowell inserted in the end pin hole, the violin can be positioned in a wall hole when wet with varnish. It also keeps violin up off the table during varnishing and supports the violin in my rotator box during initial drying, while the varnish could still run.