blavonski wrote:You're right Barryabko,
good observation, no doubt from experience. Yes, the paint job was done with lugs and nuts in place.
And each lug had five (5/8") nuts as spacers above the original tuning nut and they were all painted black.
I believe also, that it was a home made paint job and they primed the shell, so there were two layers to remove.
Another reason that lends me to think that it wasn't a tourist item, is that the Shell has a pronounced lean to it. And my uneducated guess is, that this is the result of it being tilted forward while being played for what appears to have been many decades.
blavonski wrote:Saludos Forum Members,
here are a few Update Fotos of my Cuban Tumbadora restoration.
The glue up was for lack of a better term quite a spiritual experience, in that due to these old staves having a good amount of residual tension in them as well as not being perfectly cut to shape, and along with them being different thicknesses and the because of how warn and dry it was here; the glue began setting sooner than I wanted , it demanded an ascetic like focus... We have now bonded!
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