So, here’s the guitar with the broken neck repaired and refinished. To summarise the repair, the break had been repaired before by another repair shop so I had to make sure all old glue residue was removed. The neck was then glued, reassembled and clamped up for a couple of days. Then I routered…
The next stage after glueing up the neck surfaces, they were clamped up for 24 hours while the glue cured. Then I routered a channel through the break, on each side of the truss rod. You can seen the 2 pieces of mahogany behind the neck that I used to make splints to fit into…
Neck breaks in Les Paul type guitars aren’t uncommon and I’ve had several such broken necks in for repair over the past year. This particular one isn’t the usual Gibson Les Paul neck break that occurs at the headstock or an import guitar with a 2 piece neck that breaks at the joint. This break…
I’m a bit late in sending greetings this year because I had a login problem with my website platform. So, hopefully many of you who are reading this will have got a shiny new guitar for Christmas and are looking forward to years of enjoyment from it. As with anything, the better you look after…