Although the materials used in an inexpensive guitar are not always poor quality, it is true that they are usually not well selected. The joint of the neck and head is the weakest part of the guitar. Especially, if a poor grain mahogany is used for the neck, once it breaks, repair work may be...
One of the most common requests at the guitar repair shop is for us to fix a broken guitar neck. Repairing this kind of damage with screws or a wood insert, or wrapping with fiberglass, was seen quite often in the 1960s and 1970s. But if it's a fresh break and the pieces to be...
This is the ES175, one of the most popular full hollow-body guitars made by Gibson. The part where the neck meets the head is the weakest spot on the whole guitar. When a mahogany neck is broken, many invisible cracks will often occur deep inside the wood. Once such a complicated fracture happens, because it...
This kind of problem is very common. The crack was glued without clamping or finishing. That's why dust or sweat was rubbed into the cracks every time someone touched it. Even the glue was dirty. The crack was across the grain, so it wouldn't be an invisible repair even if the original parts were reused....
This is a square-neck Resonator guitar, which is a very famous metal body guitar made by National. In this case, there was a crack alongside the machine head holes on the headstock. We don't know the reason why but guess it was due to an accident or shrinkage. Also, the headstock was broken at the...
This repair is a perfect example of how difficult it is to do a minimum amount of repair work while retaining as many original parts as possible. This is the White Falcon, a very popular and valuable vintage guitar, which is the top of the guitar line made by Gretsch. I replaced the inner plastic...