Gibson Les Paul-making good an ugly neck break repair

Can’t recommend David enough. He refretted two of my guitars with stainless steel frets. Fantastic job.

Huge improvement brave man for taking on the job with all the unknown underneath the owner must be thrilled with the result

Back in 2016 during band practice, lets just say i had a childish outburst and tossed my bass down it landed half on the carpet and the headstock and tuners hit the concrete and well cracked it. In 2020 the crack developed into a huge split from the tip down through the tuning peg holes and into the neck and stopped halfway under the 1st fret . I tried contacting several luthiers about repairing it and no one ever reached me back. I ended up drilling 4 holes 2 completely through the headstock and 2 that went halfway through. I things down some wood glue and pumped the entire crack full of glue and used a wooden dowel and inserted them in the holes i had drilled. The repair was successful and still holding strong, I'll never throw another instrument down again... Thank you for your videos and content my friend... Hope you will start showing us some bass love!!!!

Make sure you "cut" the original finish back with compound way past where you intend to paint, mask off the edges of the fingerboard, and sides of the headstock, apply your colour coat a little thinner and "dust" it on leaving longer between coats, when you are happy with the depth of coverage, using just clean thinners in the gun, lightly go over the dry edges to "melt" the edge, this should help reduce any witness marks and give a better finish, I would not mask above and below as this can leave a line, I would also have lacquered the whole rear face of the headstock and blended the finish further down the back of the neck. But nice job all the same.

That is where I am at with finishes, getting to the finish line! So close, more time and patience. Great to see a nice job. Thank you!!

Fantastic work David!!

I was also wondering if the witness line derives from the paint applied during the original bad repair job.

Nice work 👍

can't complain about that

Every once in a while I see a Bolt or Screw used in a Headstock repair however recently someone on Reddit chopped part of the headstock off from a Epiphone Thunderbird just so it would fit in a gig bag which was a trash bag with a zipper. Thanks for the video 🍺🇨🇦

Great job! Makes me so glad I have polishing wheels to speed this process up quite a bit!

Great video

Excellent job 👌

That looks spot on compared to how it was. Another great video!

When dealing with a repair done by someone else, you really are delving into the unkown. Sometimes you are lucky, sometimes not so.

Hi David, great video (as always) another top repair which makes the neck much better. Aiming for perfection is always a good thing, but like you say sometimes 98% is as good as can be achieved by anyone. The only other solution might be to completely re-finish the whole neck but I think that would be taking something away from the genuine history of the instrument.

Hi David! Wonderful video as usual! I’m curious, have you ever had anyone bring you a repair that you have turned down because it was unfixable? Thanks!

Hi David, ask Trogly about Gibson finishes. He'll know

15:30 what is that. You used it instead of the buffing wheel. What paste is best to get gloss back to a neck someone buffed with 0000...

hit it with a high speed orbital polisher maybe the heat generated will meld that seam into one layer?