ok.. furthur updates...
I restored this set of Gon Bops for a cat in Santa Cruz, David DeVries. There were in bad shape, with major heel to toe cracks.
In fact, the tumba was almost falling apart when i got it. it was being held together by the skin only! I fixed the bottom of it first, as if i took the skin off the top at first, it would have fallen into pieces.
Almost all the pics of this restore are on a hard drive in a crashed lap top... anyone know how to extract files from a lap top hard drive without a lap top????
Anyway, lucky for me, i sent the cat pics when done - see above.
I also repaired an Oak Gon Bops requinto for this cat, and took a cracked Oak gon bops quinto in partial trade.. pics to come of those restores as well.
Talk soon,
Tony
Hi Tony, looking good. You do wonders to those old beauties.
ReplyDeleteBTW I have just purchased (but not picked up yet) an early 1970s Gon Bops mahogany conga y tumba set which needs some brushing up. I think those babies are worth the effort.
Your conga restoration skills pretty amzing anyway, doctor! :-)
Cheers by Mike (from congaplace)