Author: clarnibass
Date: 2018-02-12 18:39
An experienced repairer can tell if it's the wood or the cork.
First thing to check is whether it's harder to assemble and/or disassemble when the barrel is also starting to cover the inner wood shoulder of the tenon.
If this happens, then it's about 99% of the time that the problem is the wood.
If the problem is the wood itself, it is in this area most of the time, and not the outer end of the tenon (though that can happen too).
If it's easy to assemble and only hard to disassemble after some playing (or worse if you play for longer), then it's also much more likely to be the wood and not the cork.
Did you check the original barrel? If there's no problem with it, and possibly other barrels (if you can try them), then it might be better to enlarge the barrel socket.
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