Repairs and Alterations

These sticks are not indestructible and from time to time one gets dropped on the wrong surface, bashed overly hard, sat on, driven over etc etc and needs to be repaired, sometimes they can be fixed and sometimes they cannot, and sometimes they can but its more work than its worth. Peoples needs and preferences also change over time and requires a stick alteration.  The most common alteration is a shortening of the shank, a simple job for a stick with a brass foot, a harder one for a stick that has a fancy foot that it is desired to retain.  Here is one such job I just finished.  The stick had a really nice horn foot but it wasn't going to be a nice fit once the stick was shortened so i used a sliver of black horn to make the transition smooth.