June 15 - June 21, 2025
Author Archives: Jerry Pasewicz
As published in the IPCI Book. The following article describes a procedure we use in our shop to repair a broken tongue made of ebony. When this procedure is successfully completed, the grafted tongue will be as strong as the original and the repair will be virtually invisible. This procedure is not appropriate for tongues made of […]
As published in the IPCI Book. The conventional manner to repair damaged tortoiseshell has been to fill the frog with small pieces of tortoiseshell cut from combs, oriental fans, or other flea-market finds and glue the pieces into place using CA glue. However, results of this time-consuming method varied and, today, tortoiseshell has become very […]
As published in the IPCI Book. One of the traditional methods employed to repair cracked pegbox wall consists of removing half the thickness of the pegbox inner wall over the crack area, and then fitting one or two reinforcement pieces, or clavettes, made of cross-grain maple.[1] Invasive and time-consuming, this method not only requires a fair […]