Recently,Luthier Mark Leue and I discussed wolf tones on my old violin and what his plan is to fix the angle of the neck using the French Neck Set method.
The neck was replaced on this fiddle, possibly one hundred years ago, like many very old violins, to lengthen and increase the angle of the violin. This was done to deal with the expanded range, and tension of the steel strings, of the modern violin setup created in the mid-19th century.
The original scroll is still on the violin and grafted to the new neck. This neck replacement was not done very well and I want to have my violin setup as perfect as possible. Right now the angle of the neck does not allow the proper action of the strings, causing me to inadvertently hit the c-bout of the violin with my bow hair on the e-string side. This is caused by the height of the bridge in relation to the fingerboard. The bridge is too low for the bow clearance but perfect in relation to the the fingerboard.
Mark will angle the neck back, enabling him to create a taller bridge, giving me the clearance I need for the bow while preserving the perfect string action. He will also carve the neck to create the perfect shape the neck is lacking.