Although this is a super cheap cello I still wanted to repair it for them. It was broken before, which is always a little challange.

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Broken cello neck, oops no before photo but the heal was broken off about 2 inches from the fingerboard.

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A typical cello neck with a broken button. After it was lined up and glued, I pinned it from the inside. It also had a saddle crack that I glued from the outside.

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Another broken cello neck. At this time, I had about 4 or 5 cellos with various types of broken necks.

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IMG 20230328 162118 100	IMG 20230328 162203 775

Here is a cello where it was previously glued in at the wrong angle, not centered, wrong projection and the neck wasn't even glued to the button. Since I work by myself, I needed some way to hold it steady while I unglued the neck. These inexpensive cellos do not have their necks fitted properly in the first place and they are not worth removing the neck and fitting pieces of maple or spruce, so I just flushed out the old glue, added new glue, aligned the neck and eventualy put a pin from the inside to help hold the neck in place.

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Another cello with a broken neck. Glued and pinned.

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Here is a cello neck that was sheared off. Since it was an inexpensive cello with centimental value, I repaired it without doing a neck graft. Here are some work in progress pictures.

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I fix a lot of cello necks but usually don't take any photos because it's fairly straight forward. Here is on where it was broken at quite an angle.

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Tip for measuring a neck to make sure it's in the center.

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Here is a another cello with a broken next.  I have fixed hundreds of these. Three screwed pins at the correct angle and lenght works the best. Also clamping so that you are not fighting gravity makes things a lot easier. Once the end grain has been flattened to match the fingerboard, it's dyed black and sealed.

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IMG 20220109 150100 871	IMG 20220109 151643 054	IMG 20220109 153244 653
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