Violin family instruments necks are susceptible to damage. Normally the best method is to do a neck graft, but because it's time consuming it's a little expensive. Here are some unusual neck repairs that were performed without a neck graft.

I see a lot of bass and cell neck breaks like this one but not too many of this type of violin or viola breaks. She came in just wanting a new "A" string, and told her that she needed the neck repaired.

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Normally when necks break out and the button breaks, the break is at the weakest point which is the purfling. This is a somewhat unusual because it also took some of the back that's on the other side of the purfling.

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