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A Buddy dropped off his mando. His wifes electric bass fell on it and cracked the neck.
The crack starts along a joint but starts to crack the wood part way. The arrow points to where the wood is cracking.

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I think I need to open it up so I can clean up a failed repair.
Any suggestions.

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Here's the other other side

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I agree , it appears to me that it is cracked along the original repair. That shouldn't be happening.

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Thanks Wood, I need to open it up to clean up the epoxy that was used to try to fix the break before I got it.
I'm not sure if I should try to open it up and squirt some epoxy in it or go ahead and complete the break so it's easier to clean up.

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I believe I would get it apart. Steam / Heat and repair accordingly. That repair is failing.

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The Taking Of Offense Is the Life Course Of The Stupid One !
Wanna Leave a Better Planet for our Kids? How about Working on BETTER KIDS for our Planet !
Forgiveness is the ability to accept an apology that you will probably NEVER GET
The truth will set you free , But FIRST, it will probably Piss you Off !
Creativity is allowing yourself to make Mistakes, Art is knowing which ones to Keep !
The Saddest thing anyone can do , is push a Loyal Person to the point that they Dont Care Anymore
Never met a STRONG person who had an EASY past !
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It will be a pain, but you gotta do it Dave.
Good luck, man!

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went ahead and took it apart last knight.
I tried to get it to come apart at the joint but half way through it followed one of the cracks pointed out in the first picture.
I "think" I should take the chipped part off then repair both breaks then refit the original joint.

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I agree

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The Shallower the depth of the stream , The Louder the Babble !
The Taking Of Offense Is the Life Course Of The Stupid One !
Wanna Leave a Better Planet for our Kids? How about Working on BETTER KIDS for our Planet !
Forgiveness is the ability to accept an apology that you will probably NEVER GET
The truth will set you free , But FIRST, it will probably Piss you Off !
Creativity is allowing yourself to make Mistakes, Art is knowing which ones to Keep !
The Saddest thing anyone can do , is push a Loyal Person to the point that they Dont Care Anymore
Never met a STRONG person who had an EASY past !
http://wiksnwudwerks.blogspot.com/
http://www.facebook.com/groups/GatewayA ... rAssembly/

It will be easier to clean out all the old gunk that way.
You're doing great, Dave!

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Well that didn't go so well.
No tendons or ligaments, got lucky.
I'll need to wait a week or so before i continue.
Still dumber than a box of rocks.

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DAYUM, DAVE! Sorry you got hurt.

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Dang bubba what happened ??

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The Shallower the depth of the stream , The Louder the Babble !
The Taking Of Offense Is the Life Course Of The Stupid One !
Wanna Leave a Better Planet for our Kids? How about Working on BETTER KIDS for our Planet !
Forgiveness is the ability to accept an apology that you will probably NEVER GET
The truth will set you free , But FIRST, it will probably Piss you Off !
Creativity is allowing yourself to make Mistakes, Art is knowing which ones to Keep !
The Saddest thing anyone can do , is push a Loyal Person to the point that they Dont Care Anymore
Never met a STRONG person who had an EASY past !
http://wiksnwudwerks.blogspot.com/
http://www.facebook.com/groups/GatewayA ... rAssembly/

Ow! That looks like an evil chisel accident. I doesn't look lucky, but no tendon or ligament damage certainly makes it lucky, and anyone who uses tools will get stitches sooner or later, Dave.

Alex

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Those darn electric basses!
Best wishes for a speedy recovery!

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Jeeze Dave! They didn't clean up your finger before they stitched it? Or after? If you need a hand (or a finger) give me a holler. I can always lend a hand. And after July 10th, I'll have way more time to help....

Ah..... is that when you forsake the tender mercies of Learjet, Allan?

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Well that's the plan at the moment. I have a 14X24 shed coming to put the wood working tools in.
We still need to collect those of us close by for a little fellowship.

Got back to working on this Mando.
The neck is glued back together.
It's not pretty I'm hoping it holds.
used slow setting epoxy from Stew Mac.
Now I'm starting on the finish.

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Looks Good to me !

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The Shallower the depth of the stream , The Louder the Babble !
The Taking Of Offense Is the Life Course Of The Stupid One !
Wanna Leave a Better Planet for our Kids? How about Working on BETTER KIDS for our Planet !
Forgiveness is the ability to accept an apology that you will probably NEVER GET
The truth will set you free , But FIRST, it will probably Piss you Off !
Creativity is allowing yourself to make Mistakes, Art is knowing which ones to Keep !
The Saddest thing anyone can do , is push a Loyal Person to the point that they Dont Care Anymore
Never met a STRONG person who had an EASY past !
http://wiksnwudwerks.blogspot.com/
http://www.facebook.com/groups/GatewayA ... rAssembly/

Looks good, Dave.
Now show us your scar!

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When you have a nice repair like that you almost want to just clear coat it so they can see what's happened to the poor baby, and how well it was fixed.

I'm not sure how I would go about hiding the repair.
Thinking about using true oil.
It should sound better, when I cut my finger I put some "Rickard tone enhancing DNA" on it.

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