Gibson Les Paul Cracked Finish
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1958 Flying Vee Broken Neck Joint Repair
When this job is done it will be absolutely impossible to tell it was ever repaired.
This is a before picture
WHY DO VINTAGE GUITAR DEALERS HATE ME ??? Because I break the rules and tell people what the real dangers of buying a vintage guitar is. I am taking food from their mouth's therefore I am the bad guy. Biodex biostep parts. Vintage guitar magazine could and should do a story like this but it would hurt every one of their advertisers. READ THIS WHOLE ARTICLE ESPECIALLY THE END Close up & personal. (written 2002) Pax sound driver for mac. As you can see the Korina Wood is split right at the neck joint. The finish is cracked also but that would not be a sufficient reason to restore this guitar. This is an extremely pricey instrument when there are no major problems like a broken neck joint. This type of job requires great skill and very few people are qualified to do a repair like this one. I suggest that if you need a repair job like this one done that you send it to me. If you do send me a repair, try to send it as soon as it breaks. Waiting will cause more problems with expansion and contraction. Also, don't let some idiot hack do a temporary repair until you feel you can send it to me. 99% of the time it will be much harder to repair after some moron has gone in and tried to fix it half ass. These cracks reduced the value of this guitar by $50,000.00 fifty thousand dollars. these guitars got horrifically overpriced in the late 90's. This spawned numerous counterfeiters in 10 different countries that were making them from scratch. Some of the counterfeits are so good that I cannot tell them from original. There are people that brag that they can tell an original from a counterfeit. usually these guys are vintage dealers. I DON'T BELIEVE THEY CAN TELL. maybe when the first counterfeits started appearing in the mid 90's you could tell but today it is impossible. All the possible mistakes that the first counterfeiters made are all fixed now. You can buy dated pots, all the parts are pretty much generic and even if they weren't generic the selling price which got as high as $175,000.00. SO MAKE DAMN SURE YOU KNOW THE FULL LINEAGE OF ANY VINTAGE INSTRUMENT YOU BUY. UNLESS OF COURSE YOU BUY IT FOR $250.00 AT A YARD SALE !!! That is the only sure fire way to know it's real. |
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