Edison Opera

[71769]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Edison-Opera-Ma ... 27f89d0d73

[flashpanblue]

Hello,
Other than the horn the rest of the machine is in good condition. You would need to buy a repro horn and repaint the elbow. It is almost impossible to repair multiple splits in a mahogany horn. Even if they can be clamped tight and glued they will always show and be a distraction.
Pete

[EarlH]

The thing I've found repairing those split horns is that you need to clamp them together for a long time, I clamped one I had together for over a year before I finally glued it back together. Once you get it trained back to where it needs to be then it will glue back together just fine. Most of those cracks have been open for a long time and they need some coaxing to get them back together again.
It's interesting too that the mahogany horns almost never split apart where they were glued up in the first place, and the oak horns almost always split apart at the glue joints.

[HisMastersVoice]

I think it's because mahogany is a softer wood than oak, the glue is stronger than the wood so it splits apart rather than coming unglued.