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Re: How to Fix a crack!?

Author: Craig Matovich
Date: 2006-11-29 13:09

Excellent answer.

I would add two things, for short-term playing emergencies rather than super glue ( that really scared me... I splt a lot of fire wood along the way and the image of the glue acting like a splitting wedge when the wood moves back as CJWright described.... frightening!).... you can use candle wax applied carefully to the crack and even across the tone hole where more care shaping it to seal around the pad is needed.

That way, later when properly repaired, the wax is pretty easy to remove.
Wax on the pad probably sacrifices that though, but better than the oboe.

Can a high school player do this? Perhaps. I did this type fix just after high school until I could get it into repair. A little mechanical apptitude is needed.

Paul Covey did my repair and did a fantastic job pinning the crack and inserting tone hole replacements. That is tricky but sine he build oboes from trees, he and the craftsmen at his shop do that every day.

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