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GGJaguar

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I had a lawsuit takamine I loved. Solid spruce too, lammy maple b/s, it was my main one guitar from age 17-23. One night, I came home from a party on dead of winter. I had played the Tak during the day and left it out on a bay window couch. I remember going to sleep thinking, dang it’s cold tonight. I didn’t know any better. In wee hours of morning, I hear this loud pop. No clue what it was, maybe I was dreaming, so I went back to bed. Next morning, I go over to the Tak, and the neck had split away from itself. That was the end of that guitar.

I didn’t have a guitar for a while after that, till a buddy helped me get a Pete Townsend Schecter. Didn’t play acoustic again several years. I traded that Shecter in for a 12 string, then, shortly thereafter, a Martin D-35.
 
That's the luthier's senior project. When you can return this guitar to its former condition with no sign of trauma, then you will be ready. You will have this bottle of titebond, a C clamp, and a box of toothpicks. go!
 
If there is an upside to having access to instruments as badly smashed as these, it is the challenge to try and repair them to the point that they are simply playable. And if the end product is not, in their broken condition, they were to be disposed of anyway.
I'd love the opportunity to work on wrecks such as these, as I find working out a plan of action mentally stimulating, and the actual hands-on work very theraputic.
RBSinTo
 
I threw my SG on the floor once but it didn’t break. I was a teen and, iirc, furious that it would not stay in tune.
 
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