How would you repair this vintage Les Paul ?

[Lewguitar]

 

[ErikH]

Well, some dowels and wood glue for starters. Might be worth removing the neck with a heat gun to really get at everything. Strip the finish down to the wood (probably the whole thing for a complete refinish). Then slap the person who made it look like that.

 

[Hsb]

Thats a whole new meaning to bolt on.

 

[beaubrummels]

I'd fix that by buying a new one.

 

[Chris Pile]

I'm wondering how much horror is on the front of the guitar.

 

[Clint 55]

DEAR SWEET LORD JESUS!

 

[SoPhx]

DC Special...what did you expect. An inferior design.

 

[Lewguitar]

DEAR SWEET LORD JESUS!

The owner said "The devil made me do it!" :crazy:

 

[Lewguitar]

I'm wondering how much horror is on the front of the guitar.

Probably just a few nuts and bolts through the fingerboard. Nothing to get in a twist over.

 

[Clint 55]

The owner said "The devil made me do it!" :crazy:

Haha

 

[JMP/HBE]

 

[Dave Locher]

I would play that! Or at least I would have tried back in the '80s when I was starting out.

 

[Securb]

Wood chipper

 

[GuitarDoc]

Lighter fluid and a match. Let it go down in a blaze of glory.

 

[Chris Pile]

That would be quite a job, but I could fix that red guitar. I wonder what dolt thought all that BS was really fixing the break?

 

[Dave Locher]

That would be quite a job, but I could fix that red guitar. I wonder what dolt thought all that BS was really fixing the break?

Stupid is quite abundant out there!

 

[Lewguitar]

I think a lot of really bad repairs are done by kids.

Also, back in the old days there was no way to learn how to fix stuff except by trial and error.

So there was a lot of error.

Even Dan Erlewine, who I knew back in Ann Arbor in the 60's, botched a few jobs in the beginning.

We all did.

 

[Demanic]

Lighter fluid and a match. Let it go down in a blaze of glory.

Pack the control cavity with tannerite and take it out to the range.

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[ItsaBass]

Take all the junk out. Repair the original problem properly. Fix the damage caused by the previous repair. Gig the ****er relentlessly.

 

[SoPhx]

Par for the course for a DC Special, but repairable.