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Reddit mentions of Full-size 4/4 Silver Mounted Violin Bow, Brazilwood, Flower Inlay, Well-balanced Bow

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Full-size 4/4 Silver Mounted Violin Bow, Brazilwood, Flower Inlay, Well-balanced Bow
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  • Brazilwood
  • Full-size 4/4
  • Nickle/Siver/Gold Winding, and Mounted
  • Fluer-de-lys Inlay ebony frog
  • Stamped with "Vio Music" above frog.
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u/Tinfoil_Haberdashery ยท 1 pointr/DIY

Well, I'm a pretty basic beginner myself, but there are a couple of things that might be leading to your problem.

First, the rosin: I like to scratch up the surface of the rosin with a key before application so that the hair of the bow can really dig into it a bit. Just speeds up the process. After I've got it good and dusted, I kind of half pat/half wipe the hair along the back of my hand to remove the excess. There should be a bit of white powder coming off the hair at first. Also, I only rosin mine every few weeks. It hangs on to it pretty well.

Second, bow tension. When you tighten the endscrew, you should have about a pinky-fingertip's worth of space between the stick and the hair at their closest point. If it's too close, you might be rubbing the stick on the strings, which is no good.

Next, bow placement--if you're too close to the fingerboard, it'll squawk. If you're too close to the bridge, it'll squeak. It takes a fair bit of practice to keep the bow from wandering between the bridge and the fingerboard without specifically focusing on it, but a big part of that is bow straightness; the bow should always be perpendicular to the strings. If the tip of the bow points too far toward the head of the violin, or back off over your shoulder, it'll have a tendency to wander and that leads to squeaks and squawks.

After all that, solid control of speed and pressure are key. I'd look up some youtube videos on the basics of violin bowing to see if you can get it to behave. If it's still not and you're pretty sure there's something genuinely wrong with the bow (which there could be, especially if the hair's visibly dirty), Amazon's got some pretty good stuff, pretty cheap. This is the one I use.