Help w/ badly Damaged Guild acoustic

[chazmo]

Horrible thing to happen! I'd be shopping. Many great guitars out there for sale. It'll make you feel better, too!

Actually it won't. I still kick myself for crimes less severe that I did to my guitars before I knew how to care for them.

Having said that, it's certainly fun to shop!

 

[West R Lee]

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West

 

[davismanLV]

I'm with @AcornHouse, who is an amazing luthier by the way, that almost anything can be repaired. That neck looks to have clean breaks that could be repaired, but there's a LOT of them. The cost of having someone repair them is not worth it on that guitar, as has been said. Several good replacement choices have been listed. Now, not sure if you like to fix things or tinker or repair stuff, but you could slowly in spare time, slowly piece it back together yourself. Like a little project. What's the worst that could happen? You'd ruin it? That's something I'd maybe take on but I have quite a bit of experience working with wood and doing repairs.

So, get a new guitar and either fuss with this one (if that holds any interest) or sell it for parts on Reverb cheap. Or just trash it. That's my advice, which is just reiterating what's been stated earlier in the post. Good luck!!

 

[Westerly Wood]

since you are in Nashville, you can go to Gruhn's and see what old Guilds they have for sale.
Check craigslist too.
As you do this for a living, you can write off the purchase next year doing taxes.

 

[AcornHouse]

since you are in Nashville, you can go to Gruhn's and see what old Guilds they have for sale.
Check craigslist too.
As you do this for a living, you can write off the purchase next year doing taxes.

I’d advise against Gruhn’s, unless you have unlimited capital. There are no bargains to be found there. Same can be said for Norm’s. These type of vintage guitar stores know what they have, and price beyond accordingly.

 

[Neal]

Man, I'd be inclined to go get a fresh bottle of Titebond and a few clamps from the hardware store and glue that whole headstock mess back together. You have a lot of gluing surface to work with. It may not be the prettiest thing you ever saw once you are done, but it is worth a try, and it might come out of the operation playing just fine.

You really have nothing to lose. Just take your time, apply lots of clamping pressure, and use lots of glue so it squeezes out of every crack. A few very heavy, fat rubber bands might also be useful in holding it all together until the glue dries and hardens (I'd leave it alone for ~24 hours).

 

[Nuuska]

Hello from Finland

Without knowing how well those pieces fit together - and how much ( if any ) wood is missing - it is hard to say wether or not a simple "glue-it-all-together" would be a reasonable solution.

With good luck it just might be the answer - IF DONE RIGHT

 

[Br1ck]

First of all, welcome. Secondly rest assured you have not been the first to run over your guitar. I haven't, but I have driven twenty miles before realizing I left my 65 Texan in a bar. I'm going to suggest finding a new friend. I understand sentiment. Not this time. Too many decent to very good guitars out there. If you should be able to swing a D 40 or some such, see about insuring through Heritage.

 

[West R Lee]

Here ya go Paul....maybe identical to yours?

Guild GAD 30PCE NAT 2007 | Reverb

2007 guild acoustic electric w/hard shell case. Good condition. New strings. Sounds great. Just have others and doesn’t get played

reverb.com

West

 

[Neal]

A friend of mine once pancaked his nice Taylor, tripping over a curb and falling backwards on it, strapped to his back in a gig bag.

It was splinters, completely irreparable. This GAD can be fixed, even (as a last resort) if it needs a metal bracket on the back of the headstock to help keep it all together. It can still make good music, if not for the OP, then for some kid who wants to learn how to play.

 

[geoguy]

Here ya go Paul....maybe identical to yours?

Guild GAD 30PCE NAT 2007 | Reverb

2007 guild acoustic electric w/hard shell case. Good condition. New strings. Sounds great. Just have others and doesn’t get played

reverb.com

West

That's the one I referred to yesterday, where the seller specifies "local pickup only".

But sometimes a seller can be persuaded to ship . . .

 

[West R Lee]

That's the one I referred to yesterday, where the seller specifies "local pickup only".

But sometimes a seller can be persuaded to ship . . .

Sorry Geo, I missed that. Doesn't look bad though. I m wondering what's up with the scooped out area at the fretboard end of the soundhole, under the top? Is that normal for a GAD? Access to a truss rod or something? Do GAD's even have truss rods?

West

 

[Prince of Darkness]

Sorry Geo, I missed that. Doesn't look bad though. I m wondering what's up with the scooped out area at the fretboard end of the soundhole, under the top? Is that normal for a GAD? Access to a truss rod or something? Do GAD's even have truss rods?

West

Truss rod adjustment is done through the soundhole, same as the current Westerly Collection and most other Asian acoustics. Don't think it should be scooped out like that though. I'm guessing somebody tried to make an adjustment with the wrong size wrench!

 

[SFIV1967]

Do GAD's even have truss rods?

Yes, you access them through the soundhole like on Martin guitars.

Ralf

 

[West R Lee]

Yes, you access them through the soundhole like on Martin guitars.

Ralf

Same with Collings guitars. Kind of hard to get to though, it takes an offset Allen wrench. It's really close to a top brace.

West

 

[banjomike]

This is only a suggestion, but you might try contacting Guild and see if they can replace the neck.
Like others have said, it can be replaced if you can pay the bill.

Guild could get a neck straight from the Chinese factory, and their guys here could install it in the California workshop.

I'm sorry the accident happened. It happens pretty often.
While I have never run over a guitar, I once forgot to load a Strat inside the car, and it rode on the roof 100 miles to the gig- a miracle.

About 4 years later, I accidentally left the same guitar sitting by the side of the road when another band member and I both stopped for a minute and re-arranged the gear we were carrying in our vehicles.
Somehow, I forgot to re-load the Strat. When we got to the gig I had to use a spare guitar we always carried, and I thought the Strat was gone for good.
But on the way back, I spotted it, at least 10 hours later. The case was still sitting upright, announcing 'Fender" to anyone who passed by, but no one stopped to pick it up. Another miracle.

I eventually sold the guitar, but unknowlingly, an old friend in Mississippi bought it, never knowing it had once been mine. He's willing to let me have it for a swap of equals or a buyback, but I think I would be stretching my luck if I got it back a 3rd time. I'm afraid the Strat wants to stay and may convince one of my treasured guitars to take its place the next time I lose a guitar accidentally.

 

[D30Man]

Welcome and man, that is a nasty break. I am of the school that you need to grab a new or used one.
There are several GAD30 / F130 used models on reverb, guitar center.com, etc. These are great guitars that were pretty consistently made. @gjmalycon I believe has one of these still for sale and for a really reasonable price if memory serves.

 

[Heath]

This is only a suggestion, but you might try contacting Guild and see if they can replace the neck.
Like others have said, it can be replaced if you can pay the bill.

Guild could get a neck straight from the Chinese factory, and their guys here could install it in the California workshop.

I'm sorry the accident happened. It happens pretty often.
While I have never run over a guitar, I once forgot to load a Strat inside the car, and it rode on the roof 100 miles to the gig- a miracle.

About 4 years later, I accidentally left the same guitar sitting by the side of the road when another band member and I both stopped for a minute and re-arranged the gear we were carrying in our vehicles.
Somehow, I forgot to re-load the Strat. When we got to the gig I had to use a spare guitar we always carried, and I thought the Strat was gone for good.
But on the way back, I spotted it, at least 10 hours later. The case was still sitting upright, announcing 'Fender" to anyone who passed by, but no one stopped to pick it up. Another miracle.

I eventually sold the guitar, but unknowlingly, an old friend in Mississippi bought it, never knowing it had once been mine. He's willing to let me have it for a swap of equals or a buyback, but I think I would be stretching my luck if I got it back a 3rd time. I'm afraid the Strat wants to stay and may convince one of my treasured guitars to take its place the next time I lose a guitar accidentally.

Any guitar that has stayed with me through those incidents I would take as a sign that I am supposed to have that guitar and not let it go again, especially if by a fluke you could get it again. There is a reason you both keep finding each other.

 

[adorshki]

This is only a suggestion, but you might try contacting Guild and see if they can replace the neck.

Not a chance, see below for why.
@Athens-Nash Guild 33: Welcome aboard, and I have sympathy.

Those GAD guitars were built under Fender ownership. Even though it's the same factory (GREE/ Farida), they're not necessarily the same necks on the new equivalents (OM-150ce, NOT the F250ce mentioned earlier, that model's a 17" lower bout) that are being built under Cordoba ownership.

Also be aware the neck might be padauk like the body, I couldn't find a ref, but that may not be the deal killer. The other GAD-30's had 'hog necks.

The real "roadblock" is that Fender never stocked spares here, and I doubt they did at GREE, either, because:

Fender's warranty policy on these was to repair OR REPLACE at their discretion and we've seen 3 stories here over the years from owners who were offered replacements of an "equivalent" model, for guitars they'd bonded with. I've only ever heard of one repair: a loose brace.

Needless to say it leaves a bad taste, but the point is Fender never intended to do domestic service on those because the cost of repair virtually always exceeded the cost of replacing.

And that's before even addressing the necessary finish repairs which are a gigantic pain in the butt with poly.

Like others have said, it can be replaced if you can pay the bill.

Guild could get a neck straight from the Chinese factory, and their guys here could install it in the California workshop.

Don't believe they're equipped to repair poly finishes in Oxnard since they never applied one there, let alone the new Yamaha ownership complication.

Why should Yamaha even contemplate attempting a repair on a guitar they didn't make and which is guaranteed to be entirely problematic from sourcing parts to repairing the finish?

I think most owners would understand the issues and begin searching for the replacement.

Unless you were Elon Musk in which case you could just buy Yamaha, tell 'em to fix it at any cost including parts and tooling fabrication, and then let someone else take over the company when you got your guitar back.

 

[Heath]

Sadly, this seems like a situation where I'd replace the one that got destroyed and find a replacement. You could always do wall art with the damaged one to remind you to be more careful, and also give it a new lease on life as the art instead of creating the art.