How To Repair A Broken Guitar Neck With Gorilla Glue (and some screws)

[flyingbanana]

Originally Posted by jefrs

You'd probably do better with sticky-back plastic and some hairy string after drinking a bottle of absinthe.


Cascamite http://www.technologystudent.com/joints/casca1.htm
- never done it me, but I do know it has been used to successfully mend Gibson headstocks. Nearly saw one go Friday night. - but it was caught.

Hey...who's making fun of my absinthe adventures...

[Post Toastie]

Originally Posted by teleup

no, that`s called mid evil

If Hannibal Lecter had a guitar i bet it would look like that.

[Manolete]

What ever you do, it will come out better than this:

[javabirds]

Originally Posted by Manolete

What ever you do, it will come out better than this:

Dang bro.

[caferacer]

Originally Posted by Manolete

What ever you do, it will come out better than this:

thats the way they put my ankle back together when I broke it

somehow on a guitar it looks worse

[Agave_Blue]

Originally Posted by jefrs

You'd probably do better with sticky-back plastic and some hairy string after drinking a bottle of absinthe.
....

OK. So it is feasible.

[podboy3]

OK, I'm an idiot...Here is the page, but it seems pretty tame compared to the other pictures posted.

How To Repair A Broken Guitar Neck With Gorilla Glue

[jimd]

Correct me if I'm wrong but I think you can fix a les paul neck like the one in podboy's link and make it look almost invisible with some titebond and a lot of care. I don't think screws or any other reinforcement is necessary.

[allen st. john]

Guys who can find a clamp and a camera can't find some Titebond?
This is literally making me queasy.

[Stuco]

Originally Posted by podboy3

OK, I'm an idiot...Here is the page, but it seems pretty tame compared to the other pictures posted.

How To Repair A Broken Guitar Neck With Gorilla Glue

They ruined that guitar's value not to mention the repair looks like crap. When a neck breaks that cleanly a professional repair will be barely noticeable.

[twangpunk]

Did almost exactly the same thing to my beater acoustic, but without any screws. Gorilla Glue seems to be holding quite well, guitar stays in tune and I'm saving money for an eventual replacement in the form of an acoustic/electric or similar.

If this were a collectable guitar (or even a name brand) I'd probably have it repaired by a professional, but in my case it was a no-brainer!

[Triton Thrasher]

Originally Posted by Manolete

What ever you do, it will come out better than this:

Well- how does it sound?

[telepath]

I wish I had not clicked on that link ..

I certainly dont get 'an@l' about guitars, but anyone who 'fixed' a Gibson LP like that .. . well .. they needs fixing and a couple of screws themselves.

If it was performed on a less well crafted beater it would be funny. Brave and irreverent even. Cool maybe.

But that guitar deserved a trip to a professional.
As do the two gentlemen in the pictures - just IMHO etc

[Manolete]

Originally Posted by Triton Thrasher

Well- how does it sound?

Its not mine.

I pulled the headstock off an old Jazz Bass copy by accident and had to clamp it in a vice and use Araldite... It worked, I just used some mousemat foam to stop the vice jaws making a mess of the frets.

I like how the guy used four mismatched screws to do the repair. The first four that came to hand. We have the flathead, the cross head, the crowned out crosshead.... and one is even painted red to 'hide' it....

[mitch_m]

This thread is making my stomach hurt. Seeing all of these shoddy repair jobs.......

And that Les Paul repair? Terrible. Seriously, there are some jobs that shouldn't be DIY

[robt57]

The name of the thread should be:

How to create multiple stress risers into the structure of the wood in the weakest part of the structure of a guitar neck instead of just letting glue do the job...


;O

[Eric Karonen]

Pretty funny thread ...

[podboy3]

I have a few of a G&L neck that was part of a large parts buyout from a Player/amateur tech/builder/luthier.

It's not as bad as the ones some of you have posted....Heck, the ones in this thread makes the work on this G&L neck look pro.

This repair is with screws only, No Glue. In the first three pictures you can see where the split is but in the first picture you can see that someone put on a locking nut.....I believe that installing the locking nut, possibly not drilling a pilot hole, is what caused it to crack......but I could (and probably am) wrong on this.

Anyway, finding G&L necks is kinda like finding a needle in a haystack.....I am hoping that maybe I can repair this enough to use the guitar until something better comes along.

[scantron81]

Originally Posted by caferacer

thats the way they put my ankle back together when I broke it

somehow on a guitar it looks worse

Ha! You beat me to it Cafe!

[Sharp5]

I think glue would have been fine by itself without the screws. Dowels glued in where you put the screws and do a fancy paint job on the headstock? Heck, glued and refinished I don't know that you would have really noticed the crack.

The thing with just screws is as the wood naturally expands and contracts it will become loose again as the screws slowly tear bigger holes into the wood.