All Discussions Tagged 'Healy' - FRETS.NET2024-03-29T01:59:18Zhttps://fretsnet.ning.com/forum/topic/listForTag?tag=Healy&feed=yes&xn_auth=noL&H Mandolin Puzzletag:fretsnet.ning.com,2008-12-30:2177249:Topic:74062008-12-30T16:59:19.359ZSteve Bakerhttps://fretsnet.ning.com/profile/SteveBaker
Looking for some advice on a broken Lyon & Healy mandolin headstock.<br />
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Hi everyone. First time caller, long time listener. Dan Wolf and I are co-owners of Chicago Fret Works. We are a repair shop in the windy city and we've got a doozy of a repair for which we'd love some advice.<br />
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It's a very old Lyon & Healy mandolin with a violin style headstock that broke and was repaired years ago at a pretty extreme angle. The previous repair used some small dowels that held for a long time. But…
Looking for some advice on a broken Lyon & Healy mandolin headstock.<br />
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Hi everyone. First time caller, long time listener. Dan Wolf and I are co-owners of Chicago Fret Works. We are a repair shop in the windy city and we've got a doozy of a repair for which we'd love some advice.<br />
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It's a very old Lyon & Healy mandolin with a violin style headstock that broke and was repaired years ago at a pretty extreme angle. The previous repair used some small dowels that held for a long time. But we're thinking that this time, rather than just reuse or replace those dowels, that we ought to elongate the gluing surface with a scarf type joint. It's work we've done before; <a href="http://www.chicagofretworks.com/2008/10/30/vintage-les-paul-junior-headstock-rebuild/">here's a photo essay</a> about a '56 LP Junior we're finishing up right now.<br />
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But obviously this repair is complicated by the small size of the neck; the layers of maple , mahogony, and ebony; and especially by the angle of the break. So the question is what would you do?