Ukulele repair
Ukulele repair
So not wanting to take over Alan's thred about his lovely uke,
here is a picture of mine after suffering a car accident (driven over by wife)
I am going to use this as an opportunity to practice my repair skills
here is a picture of mine after suffering a car accident (driven over by wife)
I am going to use this as an opportunity to practice my repair skills
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Looks like youll need more than super glue to patch up that damage. I'd replace the whole side. But thats just one amateurs opinion.
BTW watch out buying the cheap arse CA from Crazy Johns, ya get what you pay for with glue. Try and get the Hot Stuff CA glues..they come in a range of viscosities.
I agree with the advice on heading off to the bottlo for a six pack. A six pack of Stellas is a standard part of my repair kit. They get taken immediately after the f***k up. Of course the actual repair job starts at least 12 hours after taking the medicine.
BTW watch out buying the cheap arse CA from Crazy Johns, ya get what you pay for with glue. Try and get the Hot Stuff CA glues..they come in a range of viscosities.
I agree with the advice on heading off to the bottlo for a six pack. A six pack of Stellas is a standard part of my repair kit. They get taken immediately after the f***k up. Of course the actual repair job starts at least 12 hours after taking the medicine.
I agree with replacing the side BUT....
The concept of this particular instrument is to do it as cheap as possible using leftover wood and I don't have a spare side plus i am intrigued to see what I can achieve with a repair.
I was surprisingly calm when my wife told me what had happened, she was more upset than me and I had to assure her it was my fault for leaving it there
The concept of this particular instrument is to do it as cheap as possible using leftover wood and I don't have a spare side plus i am intrigued to see what I can achieve with a repair.
I was surprisingly calm when my wife told me what had happened, she was more upset than me and I had to assure her it was my fault for leaving it there
Jeff, tell your wife not to worry about your subdued response and that she should treat the situation like any other delayed telecast. Normal transmission will resume next heated argumentjeffhigh wrote: I was surprisingly calm when my wife told me what had happened, she was more upset than me and I had to assure her it was my fault for leaving it there
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Kim
I think that this is going to be great practice. I say take the opportunity to hone your repair skills.
I absolutely destroyed a side by bending too aggressively and I used it as an opportunity to try repairing it and learn some things. I used HHG and small cauls with baking paper to stop gluing things that I didn't want to stick. I took it one small section at a time. The repair ended up taking about a week in total. Each day I'd glue and clamp up another small section. Mostly dry time for the glue to totally cure, but now that it is done, I simply can't see where the damage was. It gave me a lot more confidence in knowing that it has to get pretty bad before it can't be repaired. One never knows when you'll need that skill.
I absolutely destroyed a side by bending too aggressively and I used it as an opportunity to try repairing it and learn some things. I used HHG and small cauls with baking paper to stop gluing things that I didn't want to stick. I took it one small section at a time. The repair ended up taking about a week in total. Each day I'd glue and clamp up another small section. Mostly dry time for the glue to totally cure, but now that it is done, I simply can't see where the damage was. It gave me a lot more confidence in knowing that it has to get pretty bad before it can't be repaired. One never knows when you'll need that skill.
Hi Jeff
I seem to have a lot of nice timber that isn’t long enough or wide enough to use for sides. So I’ve often wondered if it would be possible to make two or three piece sides? The join could either run the full length or splice two shorter bits together along a diagonal. With this thought in mind for this repair, maybe cut away the worst of the damaged timber from the top of the waist to near the bottom of the tail block on both sides, you could be decretive about it and curve the cut so it flattens out at the tail block (kind of guitar shape) . Then find a bit of contrasting timber bend it up, trim it to fit and glue it in place. Turn the repair into a feature rather than trying to hide the damage.
Just a thought
James
I seem to have a lot of nice timber that isn’t long enough or wide enough to use for sides. So I’ve often wondered if it would be possible to make two or three piece sides? The join could either run the full length or splice two shorter bits together along a diagonal. With this thought in mind for this repair, maybe cut away the worst of the damaged timber from the top of the waist to near the bottom of the tail block on both sides, you could be decretive about it and curve the cut so it flattens out at the tail block (kind of guitar shape) . Then find a bit of contrasting timber bend it up, trim it to fit and glue it in place. Turn the repair into a feature rather than trying to hide the damage.
Just a thought
James
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