tptfps68 Posted December 20, 2012 Posted December 20, 2012 I dropped this guitar at church one morning as practice was starting. Strap came off ( no locks of course) and I already had a cord plugged in. Well, it landed on the cord and shoved the whole thing thru the body. I did all I knew what to do at the time, and bought a jack plate and used that and the nut to pull the wood back together. I am really at a loss as what to do next. I have 25 years experience in paint and body, but not in wood! Any thoughts would be appreciated!
bigtim Posted December 22, 2012 Posted December 22, 2012 I dropped this guitar at church one morning as practice was starting. Strap came off ( no locks of course) and I already had a cord plugged in. Well, it landed on the cord and shoved the whole thing thru the body. I did all I knew what to do at the time, and bought a jack plate and used that and the nut to pull the wood back together. I am really at a loss as what to do next. I have 25 years experience in paint and body, but not in wood! Any thoughts would be appreciated! It can be repaired. I really cannot see the pic very well because it is so small but, I know cracks like this are repaired with magnets and glue and then there is some gap filling glue or grain matching filler so they can match up the wood grain. I know of a few guys in my neck of the woods that can do it. I am sure there has to be some guitar guru out in your neck of the woods that knows his stuff. You can look up stewmac online and kind of search their website and they have little videos and stuff by Dan erlewyne ( forgive me fi I spelled his last name wrong) but there are several little videos and tips showing how to do repair and stuff on their website. Good luck, Tim
kidblast Posted January 3, 2013 Posted January 3, 2013 OUCH! But I agree with Tim, this is fixable. But for something like this you need to hook up with a repair guy that deals with these sort of issues. A great setup guy is one thing, this requires yet another level of expertise. Start with some reputable luthiers that you have used, ask them for referrals for repair guys that can deal with this. Some of them should know people that they can send you off to. if worse comes to worse, I would try to contact someone like Dan E. from Stew Mac, maybe he does this sort of stuff if you can arrange it with him? he's just about God like. good luck.
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