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Posted 2015-10-30 1:04 PM (#517910)
Subject: Celebrity mandolin


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I picked up a abused celebrity mandolin that had been waaay over tensioned with loop end strings cutting into the bridge for good measure. The headstock developed a crack on the back where it joins the neck and the top slightly dished in front of the bridge giving it high action now.

Obviously the price was right for project, it sounds great plugged in.

The headstock crack is a easy repair, the grooved bridge I can live with.

The dish is what has to go. At first I thought it a candidate for neck reset but a closer look revealed the dish as the culprit. On a solid top I'd use some hot steamed rags and weights to start it back in the right direction but would this delaminate the ply top? Any ideas? I have contemplated putting on a solid top but like the idea of a climate durable pre tortured mando for the road.
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