Ultimate Repair Job

[ibanezrocks]

Re: Ultimate Repair Job

And why show off the experience for free????
I would not do that either!

Haha I would love to see someone watch that, think to themselves, "I could just carve a new headstock with a knife," and actually try it.

 

[Vasshu the humanoid typhoon]

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Heh yeah...
Some stuff are just not right for the public eye

 

[Butch Snyder]

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Yeah it is about being good at it...not how fancy your tools are

+1 x 10 ^23

 

[KeeperOS]

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Seen another video of his, could be the one about the bass, not sure.

However what made the biggest impression on me was the tooling he used. The guy doesn't even know the meaning of the word "router"...

Yeah, when you've got it, you've got it

 

[KeeperOS]

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Here he is sanding a PRS entirely BY HAND in order to repaint it after a buckle rash supreme...

 

[Bass_Medic_05]

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Wow.....amazing

 

[tone4days]

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I didn't make a video, but did essentially the same thing on a Gibson a few months back.

WOAH !

beautiful work !!

how did you get from the splintered wreckage to the fully repaired headstock? do you reuse or remake the inlay?

 

[David Collins]

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I didn't reassemble any of the old wood - there were too many splinters left stuck in the truck tires. It's a new headstock and overlay, but I removed and reused the old inlay.

 

[JOLLY]

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That must be one hell of a sharp knife.

 

[eschoendorff]

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Absolutely amazing.

 

[formula73]

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I like how after all that, he's putting the old strings back on it! Yeah, it's probably just to make sure everything's lined up, but still...

 

[Guest]

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Cool, David.

If anyone wants to know anything specific ask and if he mentions it in the clip I'll translate it for you.

The knife part doesn't scare me, I've seen my dad do worse to centuries old furniture and in the end you could hardly tell he'd been there. There weren't routers centuries ago, you know, people used their hands and hand-held tools and still made great work.

Cool clip, thanks for sharing.

 

[Christopher Caruana]

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Probably the coolest thing ive ever seen. My favorite part is how he just uses the knife to carve the heastock like its nothing

 

[JordanM82]

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that was simply incredible... wow... I watched the one where he made the bass too, wow, that is insane...

 

[Rich_S]

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Well, musical instruments cost a lot in Brazil, so there's no other option...

There's a Brazillian guy on the TDPRI who wanted a paisley Tele, which was beyond expensive, it was simply unobtainable. So, he designed his own paisley foil, contracted out the printing, and built himself a from-scratch paisley.

International economics does weird things sometimes.

 

[Dirtbagg]

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Yeah I would agree that is is increadable, or crazy to do that for an epiphone

 

[Gearjoneser]

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I just Emailed him and offered him $150 for that neck repaired Epi!

:chairfall

Seriously, watching guys like him at work make me feel like a monkey with a hammer and nail. :eyecrazy: I'm competent at woodworking, but nothing like him......I got nervous watching him whittle that close, knowing it could screw up the entire endeavor.