Rocky4 Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220490090808&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:US:1123 Looks like a broken headstock, and dog ear P 90s installed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KSG_Standard Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 I can't answer your question...but it seems a strange place for it to have broken. I've seen a few of those old specials with breaks at the body/neck join, and in the the neck/head area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thundergod Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 Depends... you want it to look like new or you want her to be functional and dont care about how it will look? Either way it's fixable, but it will take more work and be more expensive to leave her like new. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pohatu771 Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 It could be saved, but what it would cost would probably outweigh what it would cost to buy another one that doesn't need fixing. It looks like it started out as a Les Paul Junior and was turned into a Les Paul Special. If it were mine, and money was no issue, I would do the following: Clean up headstock repair (and truss rod cover) Re-route the neck pickup to accept a soapbar P-90 with side-mounted height adjustment. I prefer that method to the mount-in-wood method. Replace pickguard (with Junior-style guard) to accommodate new pickup configuration. Complete re-finish. Of course, replace the pickups if necessary, and covers (which is necessary), add knobs and other necessary hardware. Total cost would be quite a bit more than a similar double-cutaway Les Paul Special would cost. Not worth it unless you're doing it yourself, or it's a 50s vintage. You could also convert it back to a Les Paul Junior by plugging the switch and two extra knob holes. [EDIT] Just noticed it said "Special" on the headstock, so it's not a conversion... just a new pickguard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thundergod Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 By the way... it's not a gibson les paul special, as KSG noted that's an unusual place for the headstock to break, why? Because it didnt break, it was cut there and the guy tried to instal an gibson headtsock so it would look like a gibson (just a wild guess, but he does say it's a special WITH A GIBSON HEADSTOCK GLUED IN) and the TRC is just wrong I think Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackie Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 3 hole trc is wrong for a Gibson. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xdistancex Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 yeah he says right in the description that he doesnt know what kind of guitar it is but it has a gibson headstock glued on. so yeah someone tried to turn that into a gibson, dont know ive ever seen it done like that before! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocky4 Posted October 6, 2009 Author Share Posted October 6, 2009 I'll pass Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deepblue Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 I noticed a three screw truss rod cover....hmmm? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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