Broken Neck Repair With Pics

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Re: Broken Neck Repair With Pics

Ya Pete tried his best to give it an art meaning of some sort. Pop Art it was called in the 60's.... The other guy i enjoyed watching mangle strats was Ritchie Blackmore..... Garth Brooks was kind of weird...

As far as repairing my Epiphone LP with a broken headstock i am stuck with a few problems... I got it from a local store after it fell off their racks... headstock broken clean off..... Someone at the store not really knowing what they were doing glued it back together and they left a huge hump in the fingerboard at the 3rd fret.... i bought the guitar cheap since they gave up working on it at the store. I have been trying to fix it up.... I have it playing fine but i had to file the 2nd and 3rd frets down a lot to get a flat playing neck....

Few questions i have for more experienced repairman

1- should i just pull the frets and sand the neck true... refret and call it a day?

2-Should i try to unglue the repaired fingerboard joint and reclamp it and try to straighten it out that way before sanding the board and a refret?

I have no idea how this hump formed where it did since i didn't glue it back together... I asume the guy had a lot of clamps on the headstock and weight may of held the fingerboard back and it set funny.... I wish they had left it alone for me to repair before all this mess..... An epi exployer i repaired the same style of break, and it does not even need a fret dress..... it plays perfect.

One thing i had trouble with the Epi LP is it is a red sunburst... I mixed up some stain in some finnish and filled in the finnish cracks! It turned black over night... It looked great when i llooked at it a few hours after laying it in the cracks... in the morning it had turned black!!! Now i have to remove that finnish and try again! The Epi i didn't even try paint matching... It's a Korina Explyer and it had a bad fall... the upper horn has damage and the headstock came clean off.. I just filled in the cracks with super glue so it feels good to be played but it looks awful..... I only paid for the value of what the parts are worth on the guitar... the wooden body and broken neck is just a bonus...

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Re: Broken Neck Repair With Pics

I found this interview with Pete Townshend from about 10 years ago about him smashing and repairing his guitars.....

"I repaired guitars to smash; I'd repair them myself. I'm not a luthier by any strech of the imagination, but i could make a guitar. Roger (Daltry) made his own guitar, John (Entwistle) made his own basses. And we certainly made our own amplifier cabnets in the early years. I've repaired acoustic guitars and electric guitars. A lot of them have been smashed to smithereens many times between concerts. When we were first playing New York(1967) we were playing five shows a day at the RKO, and i ended up with one guitar a day, so i had to repair it everytime.....

...a Stratocaster's pretty much indestructible..

....Sometimes i'm standing up there at the shows i'm doing. and i'm carrying this 52 Telecaster. It's a California guitar, it's a masterpiece. Thank God for Leo. It's a beautiful guitar. I play it like a chainsaw and it is still beautiful. This is a perfectly good guitar. Somebody said to me the other night " smash it". I never would. You have to realize that most of the guitars i've smashed have not been perfectly good guitars... they have been junk really.... "

PT-Guitar august 1996

Kind of neet that these guys knew how to repair and make their own gear... they really did a lot for Rock that no one really knows about.. a lot of PA designs and stuff go back to the Who's company. Early Marshall and Hiwatt designs had a lot of imput from Pete.

The fact Pete repaired his own guitars has a lot to do with me learning how to repair them.

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