Repairing a crack on the floortom

During the restoration process, I noticed the floortom shell had a crack on the outside, where two plies meet, running 2 plies deep. I decided to perform quite an invasive crack repair.

I worked similarly to the finishing plugs: route out a shape and glue a strip of wood.

It looks like the shell is slightly out of round, but it seems it has been crushed long ago (hence the crack...). We'll see.

Groove routed out

Strip of beechwood (cut to an angle to match woodgrain) before being glued. I'll post pictures of the sanded patch under the "sanding and filling" article.