... the school year is over, which has freed up my time somewhat. Enough to finally start on the big cello repair. To that end, I have taken my cello apart, something I last did about twenty years ago, when I re-worked some of its insides. Accordingly, there was an accumulation of rather nasty-looking gunk around the bottom block.
Since the neck was knocked loose in the fall and needs to be reset, and since the top had to come off anyway, and moreover, I still have all the templates and clamping blocks I made for the instrument in the first place, I decided to remove and replace the top block, too, rather than shim the existing one before resetting the neck.
This presented an interesting challenge: the original label was glued to the top block. Preserve it? Sacrifice it?
Since the neck was knocked loose in the fall and needs to be reset, and since the top had to come off anyway, and moreover, I still have all the templates and clamping blocks I made for the instrument in the first place, I decided to remove and replace the top block, too, rather than shim the existing one before resetting the neck.
This presented an interesting challenge: the original label was glued to the top block. Preserve it? Sacrifice it?
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