Rudolph Oberlander 1948

[Matthew Tucker]

Dunno if anybody's interested seeing inside this one.

The bracing pattern



nice neat work inside - bracing may be a little over-engineered I feel.





signed inside the top:



Chunky, low bassbar.



here's the raised saddle:



Some of the failed cleats:



these failed because the inside of the top was sealed with what seems to be a thin oil varnish - the hide glue simply didn't stick to it very well.

These ones held up a little better, a different kind of glue I think. It's obviously a repair done some time ago; these are cleats pulled through tiny holes drilled in the top, a thin piece of gut threaded through the cleat and knotted, then pulled back into place and the gut snipped off.



But they're all going to have to come off and be replaced with proper diamond cleats.

Here's the main crack opened up and soaking off the old glue and crud that got in there:



The crack-clamping dry-run