It all depends, essentially, on whether customer-facing elegance and polish is required. Given a needle, some strong thread, time and patience, I am generally capable of hand-stitching things together so that they damn well stay together, but the stitches will be ragged, wobbly and downright ugly if anyone ends up actually looking at them. In cases where that doesn't matter, I'd go for "nontrivial repairs" out of your options; in cases where it does, I'd call in an expert or just buy a new <whatever>.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
(no subject)
Date: 2008-08-22 12:05 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-08-22 12:46 pm (UTC)