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Your cart is empty.The MI&VI Mongolian horsehair is made of the highest quality, prepared and ready to re-hair any violin or viola bow. One end is prepared for mounting, which allows any novice player to replace their own bow hair simple and easy. An excellent price for its quality.
A guy in the midwest
2025-08-24 11:25:58
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!]
H. A.
2025-06-27 15:41:31
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.
E Buckles
2025-06-07 09:21:53
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.
Customer
2025-04-22 14:15:27
Bought this for my husband to learn to rehair bows without investing a lot of money until he gets the knack. The spare wood pieces are a great addition! He did a pretty nice job for his first try. He rehaired an old, inexpensive bow for our 13 year old beginner fiddler. The hair took rosin well, and sounds about as good as a rank beginner can make it sound. The only thing I found odd was that when held up to the light alongside a $25 bow, there doesn't seem to be as much hair across the width at the ferrule. A lot more light shines thru it. My husband said he used all of the hair in the hank. So I'm wondering if there's a difference between the amount of hair in this listing compared to the amount of hair that comes in the "Premium" hank. We will probably order the Premium for the next bow to see if theres a difference in thickness.
WAG
2025-04-12 10:43:15
Hair is ok for the price, but rehairing a bow is really hard work. Lots of steps that can go wrong. Unless your bow is cheap, don't try it. Get it done by an expert. If it is a cheap bow, consider just buying a new bow. I live in the middle of nowhere; no violin makers nearby so I decided to try it. I watched the UTube videos lots of times. The experts differ on where to start at the head or the frog. They don't really give a good idea of how to create the second knot on the loose end. It is really easy to damage to frog or the bow itself. You need lots of tools for most old bows. Nothing goes easily. I wrecked the wooden plugs that were provided. In short it was a LOT of work.
Jennifer L.
2025-04-07 11:46:22
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!
Elisa Pinno
2025-02-22 18:51:56
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.
Lauren Lantz
2025-01-20 18:09:18
Although the hair looks like a high-quality oh, it's definitely not enough hair to do a cello bow and barely enough to do a violin. I don't believe this was stated very well when I was buying this product. It would be nice if they sent an appropriate amount of hair to do a bow correctly.
Richard Watson
2025-01-11 17:06:57
Liked that all parts needed were included. Installed and everything worked perfectly.
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