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What started off as a typical Gibson Headstock break turned into oh-so-much more! This guitar was damaged by a fall which broke the headstock. The original repair to the headstock was OK, but there was hidden damage in the neck dovetail that was improperly repaired. The result was that the neck was loose in it's pocket, the intonation was off and the guitar was un-playable. My friend Pat offered to let me work on this guitar during my Level 2 Guitar Building and repair course, his feeling was there was nothing to lose by trying to fix it as he couldn't play it the way it was. I really appreciated that I wasn't in danger of ruining a highly collectible instrument on my path to enlightnment so I agreed to give it a try. The instructor, Mike McConville, thought it would be an excellent teaching opportunity and the idea was to illustrate a pretty common repair to reset the neck angle on an older guitar. We had a real eye opener when we finally steamed the dovetail joint loose, it had been broken and the technician had injected epoxy into the joint in an effort to fix it without taking it totally apart. The images below document the high (and low) points of this repair. |
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