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Old 05-07-2010, 12:51 AM
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Removing the top went OK until I hit these nails in the lower and upper bouts.








The bolt holding the neck together came out with a little persuasion.



As I thought, the bolt had several companions!



Top off, time to take a closer look:



Ugly piece of work.



Bottom block area shows previous repairs as you’d expect from a bass of this age.



Top block similar



here’s one of the nastier cracks and edge damage caused by nails and putty! I was interested by what looked like a signature across the linen strip, but once cleaned it appears just a zigzag mark with a pencil. So we know for sure the bass was repaired by Zorro.



Common cracks here. You can see the glue beads of an old white-glue repair on the RHS


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