Hi everybody,
a few years ago, I accidentally damaged my Honu Rope Tenor in two spots (see attached pictures) – there's a bigger crack (picture 1) and a lot more minor one (picture 2):
https://www.dropbox.com/s/tuh163gi2j1kfqr/crack 1.JPG?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/pmjpahcj6hjaxpu/crack 2.JPG?dl=0
Wasn't too happy about it when it happened, of course, but didn't mind living with it all the years (looks much worse if photographed such close, you probably wouldn't spot it if not specifically checking the body). Still will be fine just living with it if a repair is too expensive – however, I am finally considering to bring it to a luthier. As I don't have any clue how a repair would take place and how difficult it is, I would be very grateful for a professional opinion here: Is such a crack easy and (quality wise) good enough to repair that you would recommend bringing the ukulele to a luthier? I'd probably invest up to $100 max for a repair if it really looks like new after that. The main crack is the important one - the others one is such superficial that I could leave it like it is if this adds significantly to the cost.
I always figured that it would be quite complex to repair such a crack because of also having to do a new finish, but after reading a bit about repairing cracks in the Internet and here on the forum, I'm now hoping that a repair would be cheap enough to be worthy brining the Honu Rope to a luthier.
Any suggestion if recommended or not would be great. Thanks in advance!
a few years ago, I accidentally damaged my Honu Rope Tenor in two spots (see attached pictures) – there's a bigger crack (picture 1) and a lot more minor one (picture 2):
https://www.dropbox.com/s/tuh163gi2j1kfqr/crack 1.JPG?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/pmjpahcj6hjaxpu/crack 2.JPG?dl=0
Wasn't too happy about it when it happened, of course, but didn't mind living with it all the years (looks much worse if photographed such close, you probably wouldn't spot it if not specifically checking the body). Still will be fine just living with it if a repair is too expensive – however, I am finally considering to bring it to a luthier. As I don't have any clue how a repair would take place and how difficult it is, I would be very grateful for a professional opinion here: Is such a crack easy and (quality wise) good enough to repair that you would recommend bringing the ukulele to a luthier? I'd probably invest up to $100 max for a repair if it really looks like new after that. The main crack is the important one - the others one is such superficial that I could leave it like it is if this adds significantly to the cost.
I always figured that it would be quite complex to repair such a crack because of also having to do a new finish, but after reading a bit about repairing cracks in the Internet and here on the forum, I'm now hoping that a repair would be cheap enough to be worthy brining the Honu Rope to a luthier.
Any suggestion if recommended or not would be great. Thanks in advance!