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    Default Re: Mandolin neck repair: the final solution?

    Well it has been over a year since the repair was completed and I thought a follow up might be in order?

    The neck repair has held up perfectly -- the action (both the G and E courses) has not changed. The neck is a flat as a pool table, the back strap is tight, and the mandolin plays very smoothly and sounds just great.

    Here are three pics taken this morning.

    I'm saying that it's fixed!
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    Nice work. Forty years from now some guy will buy it and post a message asking why it has a truss rod cover and no truss rod
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    Default Re: Mandolin neck repair: the final solution?

    Quote Originally Posted by MikeEdgerton View Post
    Nice work. Forty years from now some guy will buy it and post a message asking why it has a truss rod cover and no truss rod
    LOL! If they get to the point of discovering there is no truss rod they will have had to have done something relatively catastrophic to that mandolin. You do raise a point though and I am thinking about gluing a note inside the f-hole explaining things, or maybe just little strip of paper with the url of this thread?
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    I have repair stickers inside instruments I have done major surgery to. It's not a bad idea.
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    Well its been about 2 1/2 years since this repair was completed and everything is stable. The head stock intact, the fret board straight and level, the action is perfect, the intonation is right on, and it plays really well. I've been playing it for the last couple of weeks and it sounds and looks like a really cool 20s-era mandolin.

    I have no need for it whatsoever and I probably should move it along.

    But it would be hard to sell because it is so heavily modified. Still with all the reinforcements especially the carbon fiber bars in the neck and the fact that it is bonded with marine epoxy -- this mandolin could take a hell of a licking and keep clicking. It will not be affected by water. That epoxy is used to glue wood on marine applications. It laughs at heat and moisture.

    It will probably be around for 100 years or more! Be very difficult to figure what it is worth so I won't bother.

    Here is what it looks like now.
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    Great looking mandolin you have there Bernie. I'll have to re-read this thread but thanks for the followup. Hope all is well and I vote keep the mandolin if it sounds good but it looks fine to my eyes.

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    I went back and read the thread; it was before my time. I'd lean with Len and say keep it, but if you did decide to move it along, my bet is that there would be plenty of interest in a good sounding mando with that kind of character.
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    Thanks, Bernie; just at the right time, since I’m about to fuss with my first repair on something probably valuable, a Calace from 1921 with a broken neck. The many tips and theories you encountered before starting work are quite helpful, and the belt and suspenders solution you worked out may, as you say, last a very long time. It’s good to know that, in this particular area, even the experienced folk are engineering on the fly rather than hewing to one established repair. It’s also good that sonic properties are unlikely to be altered here, and that success or failure will be obvious.

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    Default Re: Mandolin neck repair: the final solution?

    Send me a pic Richard -- I will offer no advice because bowl backs are something I know nothing about. If you already have a thread on this please give me the link.
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