Headstock repair

[Shakeylee]

Anybody know how much headstock repair costs nowadays?
Specifically spindle style, wherein the luthier sands two trenches with a bobbin sander then glued matching wood in there.

 

[Guildedagain]

Do you have pics of this?

 

[davismanLV]

Yes, it would be best to see photos of the type of break to decide how would be the best to repair. One showed up on one of the Guild FB pages and I encouraged the person to dry fit the parts (reduce the fracture) and see how it looks. It probably could be repaired fairly easily but I'd have to see it first to know. It's an old early 90's Guild D4 with the headstock broken off fairly cleanly but only one side is shown. I wish I could see both sides........

 

[Shakeylee]

I am not talking about any one headstock or another.
I was considering buying a guild With a previous repair.

 

[davismanLV]

Some guy on that same Guild forum quoted that guy $350 to fix that headstock I told you about. But if you're splicing a new neck part in there, it's probably more.

 

[Br1ck]

There are so many degrees of headstock damage it would be hard to say. The fix depends entirely on how it broke. If I were looking at a guitar with a headstock repair, I'd try to see just how much wood surface was glued. The splines were put there as reinforcement, so perhaps the break was straight across the neck rather than longitudinal. If the repair was older looking and still stable, I wouldn't worry, but of course value is greatly affected.

 

[SFIV1967]

I am not talking about any one headstock or another. I was considering buying a Guild with a previous repair.

If you want an asessment from here, pictures are needed...Otherwise your local luthier is your man.
Ralf

 

[Shakeylee]

The guitars I am looking at are arch tops , so, I guess I am in the wrong forum

 

[SFIV1967]

The guitars I am looking at are arch tops , so, I guess I am in the wrong forum

No worries, one of our moderators can move it. Nevertheless a headstock break looks the same on any guitar...but is different on any guitar...
Ralf

 

[Shakeylee]

ok ,it's guitars like this:

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i have seen quite a few of these type of headstock problems

 

[SFIV1967]

i have seen quite a few of these type of headstock problems

Broken headstocks happen, so nothing uncommon. But each is different, so impossible to make a general assumption if diffcult or not.

In your example the repair looks sound as he said, except the missing paint and logo of the headstock and the wrong Gibson TRC!

Ralf

 

[davismanLV]

Well, that looks to be a pretty clean break and also fairly well repaired, but once again we don't have it in our hands and can't touch it and put pressure on it or anything to test anything so. As long as there was enough surface area along the break on both sides to glue then it should be fine but as "some guy on a guitar forum" my opinion really carries very little weight. It's certainly got "mojo"!!

 

[jp]

If the luthier is using splines for strength, I'm assuming that the break is clean enough for the pieces to be matched together somewhat easily. I think Tom is in the ballpark with the repair costing about $300-400.

 

[davismanLV]

It's really difficult to answer questions that are vague and very little detail is given. Everyone here is trying to help answer but it's like pulling hens teeth to get any details. So now you're considering purchasing this damaged and repaired guitar, but you want to have the headstock re-repaired by a luthier. Is that what I'm getting? In this very suddenly specific case, I'd say take it to your luthier as Ralf said and ask his or her advice and get a quote. That's your best bet!!