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Take a pretty good mandolin player with you next time and take turns playing and hearing -- from out in front of the ff-hole mandolins. It's a different experience from your oval-hole rigs. Often.

Consider a call to Bruce Weber in Montana.
Montanalutherie.com, I think is their website.

My '32 Webster says212734

Right! Right...
I added for inflation.

You might message cafe member 'rcc58' if you are near Sewanee or Chattanooga to give a mandolin-centric inspection and opinion.

Search engine for "Gilchrist Loar repair" goes to his web site, "fretboard journal Gilchrist loar repair" should get you to their web site, and it is Fretboard Journal # 38 if you have that.

As a hide glue guy I was somewhat taken out of my comfort zone reading 70281 had the bass tone bar repaired with super glue.
There is so much to learn and consider.

Subliminal messages in movies. I can't describe it but I will know it when I see it. Huh?
What fun.

Rock on, Mr. Oliver (no relation known)!
I get what you're doing. Keep it up.

I guess I better resolve this question before Mr. Darryl quits the Cafe.
Is your "hmmm" the side versus top bound bling?

I can recommend Hamper McBee if we're talking songs about moonshining. His life pretty much was songs about moonshining.
Raw. Clear, cold and burns on the way down.

Spelling...
https://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/threads/82593-Bruhn-mandolin-by-Mike-Bruhn

I do not know the actual truss rod you are looking at in the Brunh.
It could be similar to the ones from LMII. These appear to have mild steel threaded rod and a stainless nut. Might be a dissimilar...

To be clear - That is an awesome burst. I had a mild panic attack that my meaning would be misunderstood.

Good grief! Pheffernan's image of the Griffith A tribute looks like a wooden model for geology class of what a pre-volcano eruption looks like.

Is your certificate of calibration still in effect on that calibration block and the measuring device?
The regulator looking over your shoulder wants to see the certs.
I will guess that 3% +/-...

Happy Birthday Cafe!

Thank you Scott!

You might call that the re-education clamp.

For the purpose of the scroll see the Gibson Mandolin and Guitar Company Technical Manual
TM: Mandolin, F: Oval and ff hole.
GROUP 15--FRAME AND ATTACHMENTS
BOSS, SUSPENSION: forward anchor...

Jeff that is a stunning looking mandolin. Are the rims as flamed as that back?
From your video it sounds like you deserve it.

You can see some fine oak guitars at www.brentrup.com.

You mentioned in your op that you thought the crack extended into the head block.
There does appear to be cracks in the rim wood on both sides of the dovetail that registers with the heel failure...

I would;
1. Repair
2. JB Weld or CA the joint
3. Make a top and back splice patch from a paint stir stick and sand most of the patch away
4. Edit and retitle the op with "Bass-sized fiddle...

Have you laid out where the bridge and bass-side tone bar will be in relation to the pocket?

Thanks for all the review.
Was the fingerboard also left with toothing plane tracks?
What if the joint was made this way to be easier to remove the board, much like the weaker glue mix for violin...