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Oooh, tough break. Was it a chinese bow?I once saw the same happen during a rehearsal and the bow was a cheapo chinese one! I like Bram's nonchalant way of expression in english; the show must go on! Send it my way and I'll epoxy it for you :-) Oooooohhh! That is PAINFUL to look at! too bad.... Bram, your pictures are always so pretty! Even this one turned out beautiful! It is a scan on my work during the middaybreak, where I also scan my rare violinconcerto's. I got a reaction from Joseph Gold about a letter of de Sarasate, who said that he liked Lalo op.20 violinconcerto in F major more than Lalo's Symf.Espagn. Joseph is great, I'm great friends with him. He's also my neighbor! Isn't he a Heifetz student? Heifetz, Shapiro, Galamian...etc...he has tons of great stories Actually come to think...I'm not sure about Galamian...I'd have to double check ;-) I'm sure about the other two I've had the exact same thing happen to a bow...looked a lot like that. of course, i broke mine trying to prove that, given the right skill, a wooden bow could beat a carbon fiber one. I lost. Your photo is very good, but the message it conveys is very painful. I don't relate to euros. Was your bow cheap or expensive? I found the ticket. I bought it 12-8-04 for 220 euro. 1dollar is 1,30 euro, so it was a cheap bow of 170 dollar. It was not a foto, but a scan from Scanjet 5300C HP on my work near my computer. After my work I will visit the violin-maker and than again an orchestra rehearsal with the 1th celloconcerto op. 46 of Henri Vieuxtemps with my reserve or new bow. Aliphatic resin glue, prime each side to avoid a dry join, align perfectly, clamp moderately using leather pads. Don't touch it for a week. Sell on Ebay for 3x what you paid for it. Haa. My gut feeling is it'll hold if you do a good job. If you want, reinforce it with a thin screw then file the head off with a dremel tool. It'll rock.