Epiphone Les Paul Repair

rafared

Some of you guys might be interested in seeing pics of a repair I'm doing with a student of mine who brought me a Epi Les Paul which had its headstock snapped off.
The student was given the guitar by his dad who had rescued it from being dumped. I decided that we would make a new headstock which would be spliced to the neck of the guitar.
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Firstly we cut an angled back to the neck to remove the rough timber and provide a flat surface to glue the new neck block to. I used some scrap Mahogany to make the new headstock blank and a table saw to groove it for the truss rod.
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The new timber was then clamped in place and after it set the headstock shape was roughed out on the bandsaw.
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These last few pics show the new headstock after it has had some finer work done by the student with my help.
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We have faced the front of the headstock with Walnut and its ready for final sanding and finishing but I haven't got pics of that yet.
We intend removing most of the varnish from the older part of the neck and then grain filling and staining the neck as close to the original colour as we can before final finishing of an oil finish.
This project is a prelude to the student making a new guitar as part of his leaving cert work next year.

martinedwards

looks good!

I've had two pupils make guitars (one acoustic, one two electrics) and it's a great feeling when the kid strings up and plays the first time.....

rafared

It is indeed. We have had several electric guitars made but no Acoustics as yet.