by Psych1 » Sat May 05, 2012 3:20 pm
Beautiful set of tumbas!!!!!!!
Of course, a "Deep restoration", taking everything apart is the "best. " But, unless you do it yourself, it can cost as much as a new set of handmade congas - and, it is probably unnecessary. On the other hand, crack fixing can lead to what Tony calls "crack chasing" i.e., the need to fix one after another. But, eventually, it stops and, for a while at least, you are done.
But, from what I see in the pics of the bottom, your staves are put together with splines. If that is true, and they are top to bottom, you will never be able to separate all those staves without cracking at least some of them anyway. And those splines should hold most of the staves together even if the original glue used was not very good. Lets see a pic of the bearing edge to see if there are splines there too.
So, NO, forget taking them apart. And, again, Beautiful set of tumbas, ENJOY.