Re: Help please!!!! Messed up pretty bad
Originally Posted by
jim simpson
... puzzled by the photo showing a threaded bolt from the underside of the fingerboard extension. ...
Actually two diagonally-spaced bolts, once you get the mess mentally digested.
(Just my amateur two cents!):
This arrangement is SO odd, so non-standard, so off-the-wall, that this may have been a one-off factory "fix" of their own screw-up. (Hey, if I were a factory worker that could add 2 quick bolts before the fingerboard went on, rather than be docked pay for having trashed a completed body, you bet I'd take the extra 30 seconds to do so!)
Does Mitchell normally build 'em this way? Probably not many folks know, and those who do would care even less than this Cafe audience does.
Which has me thinking that a professional luthier would either have had similar results OR would have resigned early on! As so few luthiers are called on to perform surgery on Mitchells, there would be little "common knowledge" that could/should have been applied.
Having done gratis work on friends' instruments myself, and having made (correctible!) mistakes, I side with the OP's objective of preserving the friendship first. But armed with the knowledge of the many fine folks here, it shouldn't be too dificult to convince said friend that his Mitchell was a ticking a time bomb!
- Ed
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Our mistakes weren't quite so easy to undo
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