Hi.
Any hope of completely replacing the neck? Or is it so cheap as to not be worth the trouble?
IMHO/IMLE, judging by the pics alone, there may not be a dovetail joint there. That makes the neck replacement a bit of an un-necessary PITA, and doesen't quite teach the skills for making/installing a properly made one.
OTOH, what a great reason to make the neck detachable though
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I don't think the director is looking for any miracles. The bass is unusable as is--if I get it playable & it lasts a year or two, that's better than nothing.
Better than nothing perhaps, but if there isn't a severe budget increase to be expected to the music department within' that year or a two and this is the means to limp through up until that, not a whole lot better either. IMHO anyway.
There's no reason why that repair (if done correctly) couldn't last 20 years or more.
And more importantly, if/when it breaks again in (ab)use, to be easily repaired over and over again.
On the positive side, that is repairable, but if the neck wouldn't have snapped as they almost always do, the block would have been ripped off the ribs. Or the neck would've snapped in half. Or...
Those scenarios are repairable as well, but not as easily as in this case.
Regardless of the brand or vintage, I try to appraoch all repairs with respect, invisibility, and the ability for myself or the next person down the line to work on the instrument and remove anything I did.
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I'm just a hobbyist, and mostly on the slab side of instruments no less, but that's the ideology I live by as well.
Regardless of what I do/make/repair.
Sure, I have experimented and done what could be considered horrible sacrilidges for various objects, but when one learns without tutoring/supervision, things like that are bound to happen every once and a while.
Given all of the rest of the half @$$ed, cheap, lazy shortcuts that we as a society are overwhelmed with every day, do you really want to add your name to the list and offer up this type of work?
A wise person once said to me that before you can fake your way through for a reason or another, you have to have experience how to do that very thing correctly.
Only then can you determine what's the best approach for that given situation.
Applies to most fields, not just repairing and playing.
This repair was done quickly and easily with hide glue and joined via screws inserted from under the fingerboard. No clamps needed.
Yes.
Why use epoxy? Why use dowels?
Some feel they're required, some know better?
Matter of an opinion perhaps.
OTOH on a break
not as clean as in OP's or Your case, epoxy and dowels might have their place.
BTW, I always get a chuckle when people talk about epoxies (or steel, or aluminium) like there's only one brand or variety available
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To me it's the eqvivalent of labeling all wooden DB's as "made out of wood".
Just wood, since they're all the same.
Regards
Sam
