1. Unusual Seam Gluing
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Here is a very unusual way to glue a seam back together. I guess someone was frustrated with these two top seams coming unglued so they glued and pinned them. When the customer brought in the violin the ...

2. Cello Back Seam Repair: Step-by-Step Guide
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Here is another cello with a back seam that I glued from the outside. The seam was open at the bottom and there was a nitiacable gap that would not close. Here are the steps I used. Unglue the right ...

3. Bass Center Seam Repair: Magnet-Cleat Technique for Efficient Fixes
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This is a decent college school bass where the lower part of the senter seam became unglued. I could get the seam to move around a little so I knew that I could easily get hot hyde glue worked into the ...

4. Cello Back Seam that is glued from the Outside
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Another cello with an open lower back seam. Here are a coupld of photos.     Here is a factory cello where the back seam is unglued at least half way and as a challenge ...

5. Cello Top Seam
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This cello was falling apart, the neck was off and the top center seam was unglued, plus a lot of the seams were unglued. At first I tried gluing the top seam back together without taking it apart. I could ...

6. Restoring a Nice Cello with Sentimental Value | Callier Scollard Violins
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... ribs were somewhat warped.so then needed a little pressure to get them lined up with the back. I found that sometimes when a rib is bulging out you need to unglue all of that seam and then glue each segment ...

7. Stuck Slide Solutions | Unsticking Glued-in Slides | Callier-Scollard Violin Shop
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... unglued from the under slide. I carefully removed the perl and continued applying heat and water to the under slide. In the end I needed to pry the under slide out of the frog. Then I glued the underslide ...

8. Rib Repair Without Removing Top: Gluing Lining and Block, Saving Time and Money
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... the rib from the block. At that time I realized that the lining was also unglued from the rib. Here are some shots of how I first glued the lining back and then glued the rib back onto the block.  ...

9. Repairing a Broken End Block on a Sentimental Violin
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... repair a broken block without taking the instrument apart. In this case since the ribs were unglued and the block was broken, I needed to take the top off to repair the block and reglue the ribs.  ...

10. Cello Bass Bar
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This cello was caving in on the "C" side of the top. I suspected that the bass bar was possibly cracked or unglued. With a light on the inside and a small mirror, I could tell by looking through the end ...

11. Unusual Bass Bars | Photos of Unique Double Bass Bars
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... bass that came in with the lower block and the four lower back seams and the bottom corner blocks unglued. One of the corners was also split and the rib was pulling away from the block. From the outside ...

12. Saddle Cracks
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... there is a little extra room. Normally if you remove the saddle and unglue the top from the block and the lower ribs the crack will come back together and it can be reglued. Then simply shorten the saddle ...

13. Cello Neck and Structural Repairs | Step-by-Step Restoration
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... neck wasn't even glued to the button. Since I work by myself, I needed some way to hold it steady while I unglued the neck. These inexpensive cellos do not have their necks fitted properly in the first ...

14. Violin, Viola, Cello, Bass Crack Repairs
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... polish into the crack. Many cracks can be glued from the outside, especially if it's in an area without too much stress. One of the seams may need to be unglued before the crack is repaired. Sound post ...