Unorthodox Oud Repair

Hi there,
I'm new in Oud Forum. I wanted to share some experience with you that might be useful. If not, forgive me bothering you.

I just got this Oud from german ebay auction. It has kindly been identified by a forum meber as made by Khidor Mostafa Daghir on Mohamed Ali street in Cairo.

It came came to me as a parcel and ... the tuning peg box was loosely hanging away from the neck - not a nice surprise. I quickly figured out that a professional repair woud cost at least as much as the oud itself, so I tried to find out a way to do the rpair by myself, especially as I didn't had a clue whether the oud will be worth of the work or not.

I ordered Titebond Professional (it came within 2 days from USA to Germany!!!) and did the repair the following way:

- First, cleaning the joint from old glue
- Scd. making sure the peg box and the joint fited together reasonably
- third, put the glue (more then needed) on the wood
- fourth: securing the peg box with four strings, two of them pulling in front, two of them pulluing from behind (see picture attached).

IT WORKED - everything is just fine - and the oud was worth it.

BTW Titebond professional (brown package) is just fantastic, and I will tell you another usful application I found on this Oud in another contribution

nice work , it would be nicer though if you let us hear it , don't you think