Cello press out

Pressing out the top of a fine, old English Cello by clamping it into a corrected cast. A cast is made of the sunken/distorted top ....the mold is then scraped to what the arching should be/ had been.Then using a heated sandbag to distribute the pressure...with a little moisture ... The clamping pressure will then conform the top to the corrected arching....over a period of many days. Then a breast patch of new wood is fit... then glued in....with a new bass bar fit on top...and the Cello is ready for another generation of string tension strain. its amazing how pliable wood can be....I also get a kick out of using this sandbag.....which I stitched together back in my Moennig days ....and have used countless times since then.......