Gibson Les Paul with a cracked peg head that someone had screwed together and did not use any glue. Filler was used to hide crack line and then painted over with a house type paint.
The guitar was dropped a second time and a crack ran down the neck a couple inches parallel to the truss rod. A couple hose clamps do a great job of holding it together.
Paint scraped off and clamped and glued in the right places. Wood dowels were glued into the two screw holes.
Couple clamps and hose clamps and glue go a long way! You can see the dowels sticking out of the neck.
Hose clamps work well. The inside of the clamps have leather taped to it to protect the instrument from scratches and dents. The plastic block helps to keep the radius of the hose clamps.
All glued and cleaned up. Unfortunately the white line is the filler in edge of old crack, can not remove it. Filler added to screw holes and some sanding and smoothing wood Make it nice and smooth.
Adding some dye to the filled screw holes and a little to sanded neck makes a nice finished product! More work can be done to make the crack completely invisible. The customer does not need to have this done. It is functional and affordable. Happy customer!
Another vintage Les Paul saved from the horrors of a nasty guitar stand fall!
Love the pictures with your posts. Since I don't have much (any) understanding of what you are talking about, the pictures are really helpful. Its interesting to see what you do back there in that shop.
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