| Soundpost crack repair - inlay patch |
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| Written by Matthew Tucker | |||
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When someone knocks a double bass onto the ground bridge first, the soundpost has a tendancy to shoot through the carved top, or at least crack the top badly Due to the pressure at this point, you can't just glue up the crack and tune the strings back up. It requires a full belly-off repair job. This is the soundpost crack – going off in three directions. i glued this up first.      To fit the patch, I rub pink chalk into the polished cavity, then press the pre-cut patch wood into the space. Wherever it shows pink, I remove wood, and repeat until the whole surface is contacting evenly and closely.     in the next pic you can just see the back of the crack peeping through. the belly is now about 2mm thick in the middle.  for clamping, i've improvised a miniature go-bar deck. I prefer this way to using c clamps and it allows me to apply pressure where and how i want.    The finished patch; for this bass it'll do the trick and get the bass back playing again. 
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