Here's the scroll of the "1870 Albani Guarnerius", which shows fine blacking on the chamfer and charming character throughout. The peg-holes have been roughly treated before, and there is a crack off the e-peg-hole. Bushings to be fit! The fingerboard was also glued on off-set, so will have to be reglued or replaced.
That's gonna be a pain.. how are you going to reinforce? Interior graft? spiral bushing? combination?
ReplyDeleteThe holes are fairly large and the crack is glued shut. My current thought is to ream them out a bit more, to get a smooth clean surface, then install spiral bushings. Fortunately, the crack is only on one side -- so I hope to be able to avoid interior patches.
ReplyDeleteI saw a new technique about repairing these kind of cracks from the interior. It is done with a drilling tool form the opposite hole and it is more more like a patch. gotta remember where I saw it...
ReplyDeleteok, I remember where, it was some guy that was making the tool to do it... but which guy...
I remember seeing one in Strad magazine, a conical bit, I think, which allowed you to install a nylon(?) grommet around the peg-hole. Something like that?
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