fixing guitars

[chillpill]

my guitar snapped on the fretboard up near the headstock in sort of a diagonal snap, can anyone recomend something to stick it back together with ? will a hot glue gun do the trick ?

[Howling TerrorOutOfOffice]

Hi, tried a similar repair myself, didn't last long and used proper wood glue.
If it's a cheap guitar then give it a go, if it's your fav or expensive then get it repaired by a luthier.
Good luck

Pat
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[KLR600]

I'd suggest a new neck to be honest.

The amount of tension/strain the strings put the neck under is something like 90kgs when tuned to pitch depending on what strings you use so I doubt any repair would last that long really.
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[bazza]

[chillpill]

cheers , yeah its only a crappy practice one , ill try and repiar it with some glue

[chrisjacks]

i have 2 guitars a gibson les paul and a crappy fender thing luckily this happened to my fender, so i got a drill a put it isnt a jig i made at college for this actual job and drilled two wholes 100mm deep in both parts, then got two 200mm rods and forced them into the wholes with metal/wood glue so that worked alright.

but becuase i knew it wouldnt hold it i removed all the frets and filled them in (went fretless) then got some thin aluminium and wrapped it round the entire back of the fretboard and glued that in place.

is not broken yet =]

[bazza]

[chillpill]

well i stuck it back together witha glue gun , only problem was the glue raised the fretboard so the strings got fouled on the board and fucked the sound right up

then i smashed it because it pissed me off and i couldnt unstick the glue

[bazza]