Update on Calace Repairs

**KristinEliza** · Jun-11-2014, 5:59pm

A couple of summers ago, I acquired my Calace. It had an ugly looking repair on the neck near the headstock, but it was suspected to only be a repair to the veneer...but when I had someone look at it, they said it was definitely more than the veneer and that it might hold a month or many years.

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Then, one not so fine day in November, I took my mandolin out to practice and noticed the tuning was way off...and I soon found out why...

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It lasted two years (with me)

So off to the luthier it went...it's been a little slower process than I hoped (he admitted to leaving it on the back burner)...but I got an update today (I was hoping to get it back this week...there might still be hope).

What was hoping to be just a crack that came unglued...turned out to be a complete break...

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Keeping my fingers crossed that I can get it by the end of the week...or at least in time for the recital I'm playing on in two weeks!

**RayMan7** · Jun-11-2014, 8:35pm

Mandolins never look good with their necks broken! It looks like a clean break and thats good. Hopefully after the repair there will be no problems with it, good luck