Top-Grade Platinum Mongolian Horse Hair for Violin, Viola Bows - Unbleached, White 30.5" (1 Hank, Prepared, Includes 2 Plugs and 1 Wedge) (Platinum - 1 Hank)

Got this in today. I like it. A nice hank of hair that will work on a full size 4/4 bow. I appreciate the blocks included like this [note to buyers, there are two blocks and a shim included, they will not fit your bow out of the bag, YOU have to cut them to make them fit! These are not intended to fit your bow uncut, they don't know the size and shape of your mortise, every bow is different. You have to fit them with a file or chisel, its a favor to you for the seller to include these!]

I bought 3 hanks at separate times.The first hank I used to make a primitive bow for a tagelharpa. I broke about a 8 strands while combing and pulling on them. I can not speak to their quality in a traditional bow, but it works perfectly for my use. Takes rosin very well.I just counted one of the hanks and it has 269 strands in it. The strands vary in thickness slightly. I'm not sure if this matters to anyone.The two additional hanks I plan to use for making strings. I will update my review with my findings after I have done so.

My husband played in middle school/high school (in the 1990s). He occasionally breaks out his violin and plays around with it. Because the hair on his bow was so old, it was literally molting. Everytime he used it or even opened the case, a new string of hair would fall out. We do have a luthier in our town, but I came across this product in my search. Since it's so affordable, we decided to give it a try. My husband watched a few online videos and after an hour or two, emerged victorious! He said it's not perfect, but he's very pleased with it. It definitely wasn't as easy as the videos make it seem, but he was able to figure it out using the tools we already have. The picture shows him using his newly rehaired bow.His rosin is old too. The outer layer was a little dried out and wasn't sticking to his new bow very well. So he just shaved off the outer layer with a pocket knife to expose the good part underneath. Worked like a charm!

the hairs you'll get in a tied hank are probably going to be in the mid 200's. 250 or 260ish to be exact. Take your time to get rid of the bad ones, and if you're trying to rehair a violin bow, you should try to remove about 100 of them to get down to around 140-160 hairs, and then create a NEW knot. Do not re use the old one as it has far too many tied in there and if you cut off the excess, the knot will still be too big. You can do more for a stiffer stick, but take time to use either a gauge or count them individually, it doesn't take that long. If you take your time, you'll be left with a nice set of clean smooth hairs.

I live in an area without a good violin shop to rehair my bow, so I bought this to try doing the rehair myself. It's a decent-quality hank of horse hair, with more than enough to rehair a violin bow. Usually you expect to discard about 20-30% when sorting through the hair beforehand, and there's definitely plenty of extra included to allow for this. The wedges included of course have to be fitted, and are large enough to allow for redos should you make a mistake on the first attempt. The rehair itself is tricky for a beginner with makeshift tools, but doable if you watch enough YouTube tutorials beforehand.

Beautiful productThat being said, You have to know what you're doing. Serious fail on my end, :-(.I make professional-grade oboe reeds, and yet I failed so hard thinking I could replace my own violin bow hair.It was not as easy to do as the videos on the internet make you believe. I'm looking at you, dude from the video who did a bow hair change in 2 minutes and 38 seconds.

Brittle hair and missing the plugs shown in photo.

Worked great I'm just awful at rehairing bows so I just bought a new bow haha

Liked that all parts needed were included. Installed and everything worked perfectly.