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So my friend was setting up an extra mattress for my girlfriend and I to crash at his house on, and he laid my guitar down on the floor for a second (it was in the gig bag and we had just gotten in the door) and when he turned around to pick it up, he stepped on it and snapped most of the headstock off. I was in the bathroom at the time, and I heard a loud "OH F**K!" and so I came out immediately, and he's holding my guitar in his hand with more than half of the headstock hanging off. I nearly killed him, but the first words out of his mouth were "Don't kill me, I'll pay to get it fixed or I'll buy you any guitar you want to replace it". But I was curious if anybody else has had a broken headstock experience before (it's a neck-through, in case that makes a difference) and if you had it fixed, what it was like after.
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Re: My friend is a thorough asshat (he broke my guitar)
if it's repaired by a good luthier the joint will be stronger now...but the finish will look funky there unless it's totally re-finned...d.m. -
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Ouch.. what a total tragedy. What kind of guitar was it?Comment
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Re: My friend is a thorough asshat (he broke my guitar)
[img]images/icons/frown.gif[/img] Sorry to hear! BTW, asshat has got to be one of the funniest terms I've ever heard! LOL I've heard assclown and asshair before, but never asshat. [img]graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]I feel my soul go cold... only the dead are smiling.Comment
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My model 6 had a battle with a floor or something and lost. (before I got it). The tip of the pointy broke off pretty clean, took alot of binding with it and chipped the paint. I took to
the guys that do our repairs for work and it took a while to do. But the repair was friggin perfect. It looks like nothiong ever happened to it. Its perfect. He even aged the binding it all looks original. He even touched up the paint at the hut that was cracked from the impact.
It would've cost me about 160.00 bucks but with my employee discount it was 80.00. It was well spent.
GilComment
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Re: My friend is a thorough asshat (he broke my guitar)
It has happened to me. About a year ago I accidentally knocked my Dimebag sig. off of my guitar stand and when it hit the floor the head snapped off. I took it to my local guitar tech and he said that it would cost a couple hundred to fix it, so decide to fix myself. I used some woodglue and took about a day for it to dry. I put it in its hardshell case and played my Les Paul (playing is a lot more fun then tuning a guitar with a Floyd on it). I just put the strings back on it today, plays like a dream but looks butt ugly, maybe one day I will have the money to have a pro fix it the right way.
The moral of the story is that: a hardshell case is your friend and if the guitar is not in your hands, it should be in a hardshell case.
It should cost your friend about $150 to $300 it fix it depending on who fixes it and how F*cked up it is.
NekComment
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Re: My friend is a thorough asshat (he broke my guitar)
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">wood glue wont hold up to rigourus playing, if it has a floyd then use will weaken the joint and it will snap againOriginally posted by Nek:
It has happened to me. About a year ago I accidentally knocked my Dimebag sig. off of my guitar stand and when it hit the floor the head snapped off. I took it to my local guitar tech and he said that it would cost a couple hundred to fix it, so decide to fix myself. I used some woodglue and took about a day for it to dry. I put it in its hardshell case and played my Les Paul (playing is a lot more fun then tuning a guitar with a Floyd on it). I just put the strings back on it today, plays like a dream but looks butt ugly, maybe one day I will have the money to have a pro fix it the right way.
The moral of the story is that: a hardshell case is your friend and if the guitar is not in your hands, it should be in a hardshell case.
It should cost your friend about $150 to $300 it fix it depending on who fixes it and how F*cked up it is.
Nek
when techs do it they dont just use wood glue, oim not exactly sure how they do it but they do more technical stuff to make it just as strong as before ( think they use inserts to brace the joint)
DavidComment
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I have a friend who actually prefers guitars that have had their headstocks re-glued. He does it himself. He is a little bit out there, but he knows what he's doing. Your guitar should be just fine with the headstock fixed. Now the question would be, how much is that guitar worth to you? If your like me, and you have 1 or 2 guitars that you wouldn't trade a custom shop made just how you like it for, then getting it replaced is the way to go. If it's an Epiphone Les Paul 7 that you got at Guitar Renter for $80, I'd get a new one. But remeber, friends are important too, so don't run off and tell him that only a brand new KV2 can replace what you lost.Comment
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Re: My friend is a thorough asshat (he broke my guitar)
There is a better glue to use called sturgeons glue. You mix it in water and use it fresh. It makes the joint stronger than it was before the break. That doesn't mean the guitar will be bullet proof afterward. Rebreaks frequently happen on all repairs right beside the old break.
I broke a guitar before. It was my '89 SG/LP Standard '61 reissue. I was playing a party and was feeling no pain. I hit the headstock into a speaker cab and it split (no a total break) and was hanging by the headstck veneer. I repaired it myself (as I do it for other people all the time) and it was fine until another time I was jamming with some guys and it fell off the stand and rebroke. I got so pissed i threw it across the room and broke the neck off at the body. That guitar ended up in a bonfire a few months later...lol.Comment
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Horse Glue is the best...made from real horses.Comment
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Get it fixed it'll be fine. Than go out and buy a REAL CASE for it, gig bags are for people that want their guitars broken!Comment
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Word: It's a 1990 Carvin DC400 (pointy headstocked [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] )
And the only reason it wasn't in a case was because I was just taking it over to my friend's place and I didn't feel like lugging a huge case around on the bus. I think I will next time though [img]images/icons/tongue.gif[/img]Comment
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Re: My friend is a thorough asshat (he broke my guitar)
Rule #1 - No one carries/holds/stores/tends/moves the guitar unless they play guitar as good as or better than you, and you never hand your guitar to someone to hold/watch/tend/store/etc unless they play guitar as good as or better than you.
Rule #2 - Always remember Rule #1.
Rule #3 - The protection benefits of a hardshell case outweigh the inconvenience of lugging it around.
NewcI want to depart this world the same way I arrived; screaming and covered in someone else's blood
The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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Wise words indeed.
[img]graemlins/toast.gif[/img]"Quiet, numbskulls, I'm broadcasting!" -Moe Howard, "Micro-Phonies" (1945)Comment
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Re: My friend is a thorough asshat (he broke my guitar)
Wise words INDEED...and HERE are some MORE !!!!
NEVER, EVER, EVER, EVER, EVER....EVER...
...leave a guitar UNATTENDED...EVEN for 10 SECONDS...in a case, the stand, backstage, and ESPECIALLY in a car...10 SECONDS is ALL it takes for some HUMAN SEWAGE to GRAB and RUN with it !!!!!...and in a car - EVEN LOCKED {unless it's in the trunk}, you will end up SHORT a GUITAR...AND the FUNDS for a NEW WINDOW !!!!
...after ALL...WHAT is EASIER to STEAL ?????...
...it HAS a HANDLE ON IT !!!!!
...'nuff said...Comment
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