To repair a rider, drill a hole with the two parts together, fit a dowel or pin to anchor the two pieces, and assemble with hide or fish glue. One pin, properly fitted, should do it, however a smaller, secondary pin may be fitted if the two pieces no longer mesh, or you can try to realign the surfaces using the chalk method, but it is easier to pin them. You will want a small spring clamp with an easy mechanism and mask the teeth, if any, to clamp.
Secondary material may have more or less caused the pieces to not quit fit right, in which case you may need to plane them flat, if it was shimmed, fit them using chalk. However, I would just try pins first and good glue. dt At 03:57 AM 4/27/2011, you wrote: >Dear Lute folks, > >A friend of mine wrote the following, requesting that I would >forward it to the list. If any of you can suggest any solutions to >this problem, >I will forward them to him. He would of course be very grateful. >Thanks, Brad. > > >"I have a 13 course baroque lute with a swan-neck rider. The rider >has cracked through laterally at the point where it emerges from the >main body of the peghead holding the first 8 courses. I have had >this glued without success, then had new wood grafted into the area, >a procedure that worked for about 4 months. Now I am considering >trying this method again without knowing of any other alternative >short of having the entire piece made again, perhaps an impractical >or even impossible solution.If anyone has any ideas or suggestions I >would be very happy to read them." > >Many thanks, >David Nichol > > > >To get on or off this list see list information at >http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
