Looking out over the showroom...this one lit up under the lights like it wanted to be noticed...
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#TBT correcting the sins of past "luthiers" who cut into the scroll to mount an extension.
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THIS IS AN ACTIVE REPAIR, BE SURE TO CHECK BACK OFTEN! This is one of the great Mittenwald basses we have had through the shop. The varnish is to die for, and tone is even better! But, these things we like to haul around are BIG and AWKWARD, and sometimes you bump it on things. This one took a little bump and got a rib crack...so the owner, a dear friend of the shop, brought her in for a patch and since we would have the top off, let's reglue that upper brace that's been working itself loose. When tops come off...that usually…
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This American Standard double bass came in with a "loose" bass bar and arching deformations around the bridge/soundpost as well as the lower bout. Upon an internal inspection, the bass bar had not let go, the laminations had failed. We took off the top and were able to easily remove a layer of wood. Testing a few areas, we decided that just the one layer had failed and the others were holding. American Standards use fewer layers, but thicker layers, than other vintage laminates and even our own newly made laminated basses, so we re-laminated two thin layers into the…
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