How To Clean Rosin Off Bow Hair

1. I promise you guys don't mind if I stray e'er-and then-slightly from the main topic of this board.

   My 8-year-one-time has played violin for about three years and loves it except for the fact that the rosin makes her olfactory organ and eyes itch.

   I merely discovered and ordered some hypo-allergenic violin rosin from Shar (they offer it for bass, too). I wonder if I need to remove all the old rosin from the bow pilus for this to be useful, and if so, how the hell do I exercise information technology without ruining the bow hair?

9. Your good friend Al K. Hall will take the rosin off also equally the finish on you lot bow.

   Accept the frog loose off the stick put some AL K. Hall in a bowl and have a tooth castor to the hair and protect the bow stick. Then permit the pilus dry for several hours before reattaching the from to the stick.

   Or, get the bow rehaired and tell the bow pilus guy non to rosin the bow for you. The $50 it volition cost for a rehair is cheaper that a bow stick refinish plus a rehair.

   Joe

13. Letting the hair dry (even with the short fourth dimension it takes for alcohol to dry) without tension is an invitation to having a tangled, uneven hair ribbon. Utilise denatured alcohol - it will normally dry in about an hour at room temperature. Don't apply mutual drugstore rubbing booze - information technology is mostly water.

    A relatively safe method for cleaning bow pilus is to tighten the bow a little tighter than for playing, cover the wood parts with Saran (plastic) wrap or aluminum foil and then, with a folded paper towel wet (but not dripping) with Denatured Alcohol, remove the rosin and clay by running the towel dorsum and forth while squeezing the hair between the folds of the towel using your thumb and get-go finger. Periodically, refold the towel for a clean area (adding more booze if needed), and echo rubbing the hair from end to end until all or almost the dirt and rosin are removed. Earlier setting the bow aside to dry, run a dry fine molar comb or a tooth brush thru the hair from the frog to the tip to straighten the private hairs. Check the tension of the bow later a few minutes. If information technology is visibly tighter, loosen it till it is about as tight every bit you ordinarily tighten it for playing. In a 60 minutes or and so, you can take the protective wrapping off of the forest part and loosen the bow.

18. Y'all dont need to do that much...put rubbing alchohol on a cloth and whipe information technology off!

22. Prankster...When a pro takes his fourth dimension to tell people on this forum the all-time way to practise stuff like this, I think it's a good thing to cheque it out. This thread is about someone with a possible allergy to rosin, and so the more you can get out, the better...IMHO

26. My bad...I only read the other guy who had a long manner to practice it...i was merely responding to him....

30. That'southward cool. I was always looking for the fastest way to do something when I was 17 too. In this case, the fastest fashion isn't the best way.

34. I tried denatured alcohol a few years ago on some really nasty old black pilus; information technology helped a piffling merely I wasn't very impressed. If the pilus isn't besides bad, it'll probably work fine but I'd say only get ahead and get the bow rehaired. It probably needs information technology anyway, and I'1000 sure a violin bow tin can't price much to have washed...

38. I recently tried to remove rosin using booze with disastrous results. I used the simple technique of rubbing booze onto the pilus with a slice of cloth. While information technology did remove nigh of the rosin, it ended upwardly leaving a difficult trough of rosin downward the middle of the bow. This made my arco sound similar I was using a hacksaw on the strings. My teacher said that alcohol tin can react with the rosin to transform it into a varnish. Perhaps I could have avoided this by adhering to i of the more than laborious procedures identified in this thread. I just wanted others to be aware it.

    Since the rosin had become so difficult I was able to remove the remainder past scraping it gently with a knife simply not before I broke a few hairs.

    (I did use plain, drugstore rubbing booze, I'm non sure the results would take been unlike westward/denatured alcohol.)

47. How to get difficult rosin off.
    solvent = my good amigo Al Chiliad. Hall

    loosen the frog all the way off
    wrap you bow stick is something the solvent wont eat through I like AL foil

    cascade solvent in a bowl almost half full

    get as much hair in the basin as yous can and let it soak for several mins

    so start running the hair through the solvent by keeping a small arc of hair in the solvent

    wipe the hair oft with a dry out rag as you go.

    the old rosin will come off/out the parts of the hair close to the frog and tip you have to use a tooth brush dipped in solvent and scrub away

51. Any one ever use E'er Clear to clean rosin off?

    No yous tin't drink information technology afterwards!

    Joe

55. EverClear? Isn't that merely high grade grain booze?

    FWIW - Joe's method volition definately piece of work but when he says his friend Al M. Hall, I'thousand sure he is referring to an alcohol Solvent (such as hardware store/paint store denatured booze) non drug store rubbing alcohol which has a high percent of water in information technology.

59. Yes, EverClear is 180 or 190 proof grain alcohol. (90% to 95% alcohol.) You can go !00% alcohol merely it is tainted with acatone, the acatone is the drier that gets the last niggling flake of water out of the alcohol. You can get stuff existent clean using the 100% pure stuff. Drinking glass lens and so clean you lot tin't see the lens.

    Diffrent types of alcohol react diffrently, a lot of alcohol is a pertol distialte now-a-days. I was wonder if a natural grain alcohol might disolve rosin better.

    I first noted the difference while fooling with alcohol lamps. Yous go radical diffrent flames with dissimilar juices.

    Since, I don't drink I don't want to fork out $10 for a pint of EverClear I tin can't use execpt in a lamp.

63. Since denatured booze has work just fine for me for 40 years, and it's cost is less than $10 for a The states gallon, I think I will forgo trying EverClear to clean bows even if it were a piffling ameliorate solvent.

67. I've ever heated the string by rubbing it a few times with a towel or piece of cloth, then drawn the bow over the heated cord which draws the rosin out of the pilus. Afterwards a few times, most of the rosin is out. Don't go overboard.

71. 

    Ed Fuqua

    Dec 13, 1999

    Augusta GA

    Chuck Sher publishes my volume, WALKING BASSICS:The Fundamentals of Jazz Bass Playing.

    Yep, I try to use my strings to scrape the rosin off.

    Mostly on ballads.

76. Everclear -- extremely high proof ethyl alcohol -- can indeed be imbibed. I used to drink it with orange juice. I say USED to. I was 17 (don't tell my Dad) and used to relish getting completely and utterly smashed on my friend's Dad's lab supplies. Long long time agone. Exist extremely careful smoking annihilation near that stuff.

    Methyl alcohol is naturally a poison that can easily impale or maim you. Denatured alcohol is ethyl that's had a bunch of nasty stuff added to information technology to make it smell similar lacquer thinner. I'ml sure information technology would do a real bad number to y'all besides if'northward you tried to drink information technology.

    I've used naptha to clean rosin off my Spirocores. Works OK. Not sure what it would practise to hair, though.

80. I was refering to subsequently it was used for rosin removal. Disolved rosin would not brand a good mixer.

    Kids in the dorm used to mix Everclear and Gator Aid, chosen information technology a hairey alligator.

    They also mixed Everclear and Grape juice but I can't retrieve what that was called.

    Joe

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