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| Prepairing hot hide
glue |
Partial seam repair |
Common problem |
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| Split
tail block |
Tail block repair |
Buldging one-piece bottom rib |
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| Top removed to access rib |
Heated palette knife melts
glue |
Bottom rib removed |
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| Rare
one-piece bottom rib |
Reshaping shortend end of
rib |
New end is thinned |
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| Top
glued with rib in place |
Preserved one-piece rib now
fits |
One-piece back of one-piece
rib violin |
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| Paganini
- before |
Paganini - before |
Paganni - before |
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| Paganini
- during |
Paganini - during |
Paganini owner approves colour
after eight coats of varnish |
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| Paganini with new ebony parts |
Paganini after 22 coats of
varnish |
Paganini after 22 coats of
varnish |
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| Paganini, luthier and customer |
Removing back from guitar |
Guitar's broken tail block
and split
sides |
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| Guitar sides glued |
Guitar tail block glued & reinforcing
cleats on sides |
Guitar sides glued to tail block |
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| Loose braces on guitar back |
Guitar braces glued & clamped |
Back clamped to guitar |
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| Guitar restoration complete |
Displaying her late father's
restored guitar |
Appraisal sample |
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| Replacement bass bar made
by Clarence |
Replacement neck block made
by Clarence |
New parts installed |
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| My favorite customer |
Reamers and tapered boxwood
bushing sticks |
Worn peg hole repaired with
bushing |
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| Applying hot hide glue to
seam |
Clamping two peice back |
Reinforcing cleats glued
along seam |
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| Chinese factory double bass
with tuning pins too short |
Welding extentions to pins |
Bass pin extension is trued
up |
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| Elongated pins won't slip out
of
place |
Clarence busking to raise
money for Cops For Cancer Tour |
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