Services Offered

Rehairs • Restorations • Frog & Button Copies • Violin Repair

Rehairs

 

Mitas sources and sorts the highest available quality Siberian, Argentinian, Mongolian hair for rehairs.

Mitas has rehaired thousands of bows for professional players, soloists, fiddlers, and students, and enjoys rehairing Period bows and Bass bows.

 

Jacob is, bar none, the Dover Quartet’s favorite bow rehairer.

We have been known to ship bows to him to have them rehaired before a major recording or concert! On top of that, he’s such a wonderful person and we trust his advice and honesty as much as we trust his workmanship.

- Camden Shaw, Dover Quartet Cellist, 2022

 
 

Restorations

Eugene Sartory Cello Bow

Head Graft

 

Graft in progress

Occasionally heads on bows need to be replaced. For this Sartory cello bow, Mitas painstakingly selected a piece of pernambuco and grafted it to the stick, using a 1:12 ratio for a strong scarf joint.

The finished head

Once the new piece of wood was grafted, Mitas carved the head to match the original.

 

Frog & Button Copies

Mitas has extensive experience creating frogs & buttons for historical bows.

 

Pierre Simon Violin Bow, Frog & Button copy

 

FX Tourte circa 1825, 18k gold Frog & Button copy

Grand Adam Violin Bow, Frog & Button copy

Pajeot Violin Bow, button copy

JD Adam Cello Bow, Frog & Button copy

CJ Fonclause circa 1830, Frog & Button copy

Nurnberger Cello Bow, button copy

 
 

Violin Repair, Setup & Adjustment

Mitas Bows offers setup & adjustment for violin, viola and cello. 

 

 
 

Mitas French model cello bridge

Mitas violin bridge