| Here is a repair project we completed recently in our shop. |
| Here we have a guitar owner's nightmare. This vintage Gibson jumped right out of the stand and took a nasty blow to the headstock and neck. The break is all the way through to the plastic face veneer, and a couple of the tuners were damaged beyond repair. |
| Here's a closer look. There are several small cracks radiating out from the break and the fingerboard has separated from the neck. You can actually see the truss rod inside the break. |
| The break is cleaned and carefully matched together. It is glued and clamped with special attention to alignment. The repaired area will be stronger than the original wood. |
| The fingerboard has also separated in areas so a syringe is used to inject glue under the fingerboard and into any small cracks. It is then clamped . |
| The area is lightly sanded, blended, and touched up with a stain and nitro lacquer mixture. |
| After final sanding and buffing it's hard to notice where the break was. A new set of Gibson Deluxe Tuners are installed and it's ready to restring and do the final neck adjustments & Setup. |
