Well, here is my first project of this blog.
This is a Rolf Meister Luthier Cello, Model SC-100 3/4 size. It arrived to my workshop with a broken neck.
Neck base, body of Cello. You can see how the soundboard is attached to the base of the neck.
Neck break.
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Before I began, I got the two parts together to see if the pieces joined well.
To my dismay what I saw made me realize that the break occurred a few years ago.
As you can see from the photos "arrow C" besides being broken, the neck suffered several additional blows after the break, both the base of the neck and the headstock. These blows crushed the wood and also caused the loss of the wood chips from the break. Over time moisture levels in the air expanded the wood fibers leaving a small crack in the join.
In this picture you can see how the fingerboard got unglued from the blow and caused a crack in the wood of the neck. The headstock has a blow that crushed the varnish almost to the point of chipping it. In the photo above "arrows A” the unglued fingerboard can also be seen.
In the "arrows B" of this and the previous photos you can see the varnish cracked by the force exerted by the break.
From what can be seen I understand that this Cello did not suffered a common fall, rather someone dropped something heavy on top of it. As observed in the cracked varnish, the neck broke in the opposite direction to the tension of the strings. This lets me know that the Cello strings were not set at the time of the accident.
There are a number of small bumps and scratches all over the body of the instrument, mostly cosmetic; in its time I will correct them. Very likely those were accumulated trough the years it was stored. For now the important thing is to attach the neck to the body and strengthen it so it will not break again.
End of Part 1
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