Another barong restore project

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Originally Posted by Sajen

Hello Jose,

yes, you are correct, the top band is a later replacement and badly glued in place.
Will post pictures soon as it has arrived at it's destination. It will be certainly a difficult restore project but worth a try IMHO.

Regards,
Detlef

No glue is always better than the wrong glue.
But it looks restorable, use a fine medical scalpel to remove the glue .

Only restore if you are absolute sure that the piece will be better. Otherwise an original broken thing is worth more that a bad restored example.


The most difficult part is to remake the birds beak again in harmony with the lines/shape of the rest. My advice would be to make it roughly and that glue it and remodel it when its fastened to get the best result.

Arjan