This 1950's electric "stick" bass was severely fractured at the headstock due to the ignorance of of a certain airline. To complicate things, I had already repaired the headstock on this instrument on at least two previous occaisions. The customer who is a hard working professional session musician is very caring of his kit, but this poor baby has had a good deal of bad luck and is a particularly heavy and awkward to move around!

It is testament to a properly carried out repair that the headstock fractured in a different place each time!.... Here we go again!

Got to be clever and inventive here! This is where the art of repairs is... not the gluing... but the clamping.

The smart buggers among you will undoubtedly be cursing me for not using padding under some of the clamps? The only un-padded ones are in "blind" areas of the repair. ie. under the machinehead plate areas etc.!