Im pretty amaeteur to mandolins, I've been practicing chords on a little cigar box thing with a mandolin neck.
I'd probably have more fun playing a real instrument, I have one which is rode hard and put away wet. The bodys pretty warped up, it's not a candidate for restoration at all. I just kind of want to have a playable instrument.
The problem I have is the braces inside are broken, it's an oval hole, the brace under the hole is pretty broken off (I can press it back up to where I could probably glue it with a c clamp)] and another one im guessing came from the other side of the bridge is completely broken off. I have a bridge I can try to put on it, I just don't want to string it up to have it break in half. I figured if there's no other way to fix it I could put metal brackets running past the bridge to the sides of it and sand and glue it to the front, but that might be some extreme butchery.
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Am I better off taking it someplace and asking for a budget job? The first picture is the broken brace through the hole, the second is the front of it with the piece that fell out.
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