Repair

 

Gilchrist F5 mandolin #82 118

Completed and shipped May 1982
Tone bars
Nut width: 1.080”
10” Radius fingerboard
”S” soundholes
Fern inlay
Tobacco stain

Repair completed  May 2022

Repair issues

  • Broken truss rod - bowed neck - high string action

  • Top cracks - bass side near scroll - treble f hole

  • Slight separation of top centre seam between bridge and tail

    Repair job

  • Replace truss rod and install new fingerboard

  • Glue and touch-up top cracks and centre seam

  • new pearl nut

  • re-set bridge base

Notes
Clean original condition.
Powerful clear tone - very responsive