How To Repair Cracks On The Back Of My Guitar

The top seam is dry and looks good. Now I can keep going onto the next scissure.

This ane is actually two - one large one I tin can open up easily, and ane smaller one to its left. I can't open up the second one much at all - but hopefully I can go some gum into it.

Both cracks seal upwards pretty tightly - a good thing. I just pushed gently from the inside of the uku to make the big i open up equally you see here. And, if you look closely, you'll see that this is indeed a solid slice of woods. I read somewhere on the interweb recently that these niggling Gretsches just have solid tops. Not so. The tops, back and sides are definitely solid mahogany. This picture proves it - the edge is solid, non a laminate.

This repair technique is straight out of Dan Erlewine's guitar repair book. Open the cracks, then spread glue into them. I don't recall I'm going to put any reinforcing patch on the inside since the cracks are tight when they're closed up. Simply we shall see. I'll brand that determination after this dries.

Then close the cracks and clean up the remaining glue with a damp rag. You lot can see the mucilage line in the bigger cleft. This is a good affair.

I as well wiped the glue coming out of the scissure on the inside of the ukulele as well. This should turn out to exist a nice make clean repair.

And then we have good quality masking tape that has some stretch to put over the cracks. What I did was put it on ane side, then stretch over the crack, not pressing it downwards on the crack itself, and so attaching the other side. The bit of stretch in the record helps hold the crack airtight.

Then permit it dry.