Broken guitar

G-Fresh

Hi guys

I broke one of my friends guitars recently, the back of it is pretty badly smashed... unfortunatly it's a fairly good acoustic so I reckon it'd be expensive to replace. Just wondering if the back of the guitar being smashed is repairable?

There's supposed to be a pretty good repair shop in town in cork but I wanna get some feedback before I take it in,

cheers

Zangetsu

How bad is smashed? Can you get a pic?

Repairs like that can be quite costly... What kind of guitar is it?

G-Fresh

I don't have a camera at the moment. The whole back of the guitar will have to be replaced i'd imagine. It's a tanglewood, I think it's valued at around 360. Could be worse I guess but I don't have 360 to be throwing around!!

Dord

Do you have a camera phone? take some pics if you can.

How did you break it?

Red Sleeping Beauty

G-Fresh wrote: »

Hi guys

I broke one of my friends guitars recently, the back of it is pretty badly smashed... unfortunatly it's a fairly good acoustic so I reckon it'd be expensive to replace. Just wondering if the back of the guitar being smashed is repairable?

There's supposed to be a pretty good repair shop in town in cork but I wanna get some feedback before I take it in,

cheers

Best bet is to take it to the repair shop and see what he says
Don't know what we could tell you besides "yup, that's broked and will cost a lot to have fixed".
I knew the name of a Luthier in Cork but for the life of me can't remember it! I bought a guitar off of a chap from there and he had a Bigsby installed on it and had plugged the stopbar holes.

G-Fresh

I know I guess I'm just hoping for someone to tell me that it's a common thing and it can be repaired easily. I haven't had a chance to get into the shop yet and prob won't be able to till next week.

I don't have the lead for my phone so can't transfer any pics or stuff. Best way to describe the back of it is being smashed, there's a hole big enough to put your hand in. I fell on it after having a few drinks too many new years eve :rolleyes:

I'll just have to wait and see I guess,

cheers for the advice

Zangetsu

Ok, heres what you do, you take one of the broken shard of wood to a hardware store and get the same color varnish as the guitars wood. Get some plywood and cut out the shape needed, paint it and superglue it to the back.

Prolly won't work but it will pretty ****in funny when you see his reaction...


I'd say the repair will be quite expencive, good luck

G-Fresh

Zangetsu wrote: »

Ok, heres what you do, you take one of the broken shard of wood to a hardware store and get the same color varnish as the guitars wood. Get some plywood and cut out the shape needed, paint it and superglue it to the back.

Prolly won't work but it will pretty ****in funny when you see his reaction...


I'd say the repair will be quite expencive, good luck

Classic stuff, I knew my junior cert woodwork would pay off some day!!

Red Sleeping Beauty

G-Fresh wrote: »

I know I guess I'm just hoping for someone to tell me that it's a common thing and it can be repaired easily. I haven't had a chance to get into the shop yet and prob won't be able to till next week.

I don't have the lead for my phone so can't transfer any pics or stuff. Best way to describe the back of it is being smashed, there's a hole big enough to put your hand in. I fell on it after having a few drinks too many new years eve :rolleyes:

I'll just have to wait and see I guess,

cheers for the advice

Just for refernce I had a Les Paul neck (which broke) put back together and it cost over 300 Euros!

Alanstrainor

A hand sized hole in the back of an acoustic guitar will not be a cheap fix, if it were me i'd be searching the buy and sell for a replacement, that'd be the cheapest option imho.

Dord

SteamboatMark wrote: »

Sorry Alan, but whoever fixed ur les paul saw u coming,€300!
Les pauls are notorious for breaking at the neck just below the machine heads. especially the epi ones, i think its the thin neck or mayb the wood dey use in it.

For the tanglewood, when you said it was a good guitar, i thought u had a lowden, it'll cost alot if its a big hole, 150 to 300 to fix, it wud b easier/cheaper to buy another one. Even if u get it fixed, it wud b hard 4 a luthier to match the wood colour and varnish, so u wud notice it the repair.

Mark
<snipped website pimp link>

Mark, fixing a broken neck isn't an easy job. How much do you think it costs then? :rolleyes:

Alanstrainor

SteamboatMark wrote: »

Between €60 to €120 depending on the finish.
We are talking a standard neck break below the machine heads, behind the nut? for 300 you could buy a new neck!

Eh? And how would you propose installing a new neck? With a set neck? Aet necks are never easy to replace!

punchdrunk

SteamboatMark wrote: »

Between €60 to €120 depending on the finish.
We are talking a standard neck break below the machine heads, behind the nut? for 300 you could buy a new neck!

if someone offered me to fix a broken neck for 60 bills i'd be walking away from the shop!

Dord

No, I don't think we have. But I do think you should pay for advertising. :rolleyes:

punchdrunk

SteamboatMark wrote: »

Not everyone is going around ripping ppl off.

Dont believe me? anyone here had work done by markus at {name removed}?

that would be the same {name removed} that you've pimped in everyone of your less than ten posts? :rolleyes:

Dord

I reported his posts again...

Alanstrainor

SteamboatMark wrote: »

correction, first 5, den i got a pm and stopped, plus dat aint advertising, its a simple fact, im sure someone here has used him and can testify to his work

I used him, rubbish work, doesn't know the difference between a guitar and a banjo.

Dord

Alanstrainor wrote: »

I used him, rubbish work, doesn't know the difference between a guitar and a banjo.

ROFL!

Red Sleeping Beauty

SteamboatMark wrote: »

Between €60 to €120 depending on the finish.
We are talking a standard neck break below the machine heads, behind the nut? for 300 you could buy a new neck!

I don't know who you are or what you're playing at but €60 is about the price of a setup these days. Provided you're having the setup done by a professional who knows what they're doing. €120 is about how much a bone nut install would cost.

For what it's worth it was fixed by Eugene McLoughlin and the break was indeed at the nut/first fret.