After two days in a plastic bag with a bowl of water, I was able to get the top off of the bass. Now I just need to reglue the neck to the body. This time I'll use the hide glue.
Was the carpenter's glue softened enough to scrape it off, Perry, or is that going to need more Yankee ingenuity?
That sort of reminds me of the time that I killed all the powder post beetles in a piece of furniture from India by leaving it in the back of my Suburban for a day or two in the summertime. and baking them. Wouldn't work in New Hampshire, though, I don't imagine.
That is going to be beautiful when you are finished with it. Would love to see pics of the final product!! 🙂
best of luck with this one, perry. please keep us up. i recently bought an acoustic bassthat had some heavy damage. dirt cheap, 175 as is versus 1500 new. it was body damage as well as a crack behind the nut. it was quite a repair experience.will put some photos together soon.
Kent, The glue was not really softened, but it scraped off easily with the back of a steak knife.
I still remember your Powder Post Beetle trick. Lukily, we don't seem to have PPB problems here in NH; at least with White Pine as my spec house is built entirely out of air-dried lumber.
My bass was given to me by a bluegrass friend, and it was also in pretty rough shape. I noticed a sticker on the inside that said GERMANY (USSR OCCUPIED).
Guess it was made around 1946.
> That sort of reminds me of the time that I killed all the powder post beetles in a piece of furniture from India by leaving it in the back of my Suburban for a day or two in the summertime. and baking them. Wouldn't work in New Hampshire, though, I don't imagine.
If Perry had the same situation he could probably use the same trick (back of the Suburban for a day or two). He'd just have to do it in January instead of July.
