Failed Scroll attempt

[Ken Smith]

Originally Posted by Adrian Levi

A distraught bass owner dropped this off at me , said that this repair lasted about a year , surprisingly so with a 6mm pine dowel and barely any glue at all on the surfaces.
Of course a scroll graft is the correct procedure but he needs the bass asap as he is in the middle of a recording / any insight on how to make a decent interim repair ...... BTW bass is from Russia ?

If you are referring to those 2 pieces in your hand as the Scroll graft area then you are gravely mistaken. Gravely as far as the bass is concerned. That is NOT a scroll graft. Just an old pegbox/neck repair and poorly done. Actually, that is when it needed the actual graft of a new neck. Like Arnold said, you can't glue it there unless just to hang it on the wall, without strings of course.

This is what a scroll/neck graft is;


.. and after done, looks like this;