HEY MARTIAN - SG Broken Headstock Disaster

JSJH · **Posted:** Thu Oct 07, 2010 9:21 pm

Sympathies. But it should be repairable by a hot tech. Superglue softens under acetone, so that will likely be the starting point. Will likely eff up the finish, tho.

But a great tech will return an excellent, playable guitar. Best of fortune.

01GT eibach · **Posted:** Fri Oct 08, 2010 7:24 am

SGs with broken headstocks are ... unfortunately ... a fairly common occurence. I'd cry for a month if my '79 SG Standard suffered that fate, so I feel your pain. Really. That all being said, from my (non-expert) experience, it is very fixable. The bad news though is that even when perfectly repaired, the guitar lost at least half of its value. But, yes, it can repaired quite nicely.

About the guitar, though ... I am not an all-knowing SG expert, but there are some odd things:
1) You said P-90s but it has humbuckers in the picture, right?
2) The pickguard does not look right. Been changed?
3) The knobs do not look right. Been changed?
4) Definitely not a Standard without neck binding and the inlay on the headstock, but not a Special without the dot inlays
5) Block fretboard inlays but no neck binding ... and with P-90s ... what model was this?? What year?

orvilleowner · **Posted:** Fri Oct 08, 2010 9:26 am

Ceri wrote:

I did see a fella wearing trousers that looked exactly like that just the other day.

You are the big Slade fan, aren't you?!

:lol:

I'm pretty sure those were Noddy's pants ...

Ceri · **Posted:** Fri Oct 08, 2010 11:11 am

orvilleowner wrote:

Ceri wrote:

I did see a fella wearing trousers that looked exactly like that just the other day.

You are the big Slade fan, aren't you?!

:lol:

I'm pretty sure those were Noddy's pants ...

Hee-hee: there's a nice joke about Noddy Holder's dress sense, which I heard told by - Noddy himself (on the radio). But it kinda depends on a close understanding of a broad Birmingham accent: not sure it would work here...

Cheers - C

Kong · **Posted:** Mon Oct 11, 2010 6:11 am

Ceri wrote:

Kong wrote:

And lastly, does anyone know of any good luthiers in the Central New Jersey area that might be able to tackle such a repair?

Anyhow, Forum user Martian is in New Jersey. Just from reading hundreds of his technical posts here and considering his decades of experience I'm certain you could do absolutely no better, if he was interested in tackling it. Add his name to the title of this thread and see if you catch his eye, why not...?

Hey Martian,

Ceri suggested you might be able to handle this job. Could you give me a shout and let me know if you might be interested in taking a look?

thanks,
Kong

truebluefliplover · **Joined:** Wed Dec 02, 2009 1:09 pm **Posts:** 378

Kong wrote:

A very close friend of mine has a nice SG, I think from the 60s or early 70s. It has P-90s and a Bigsby.

Anyway a couple of years ago, his grandson got into the case and broke the neck at the headstock. My friend (in an emotionally distraught) state hastily tried to fix the problem with superglue (ouch).

This guitar has great sentimental value to him for reasons other than the obvious ones. I took some pics of the "repair" and told him I would post here seeking expert advice. Is this something that could be re-done properly by an amateur? If not could it be repaired professionally? And lastly, does anyone know of any good luthiers in the Central New Jersey area that might be able to tackle such a repair?

I don't believe he has tried to tune the strings to pitch since his "fix" and I'm not sure if it would hold up to the tension. And it would be very uncomfortable to play due to the current sloppiness of the glue.

Here are some pics of the damage and subsequent repair attempt - view at your own risk.

Kong:

Please let us know how this turns out (with pictures of the repaired SG). When I broke the headstock on my original guitar, I made the HUGE mistake of thinking that it was ruined and threw it in the garbage. I really regret that mistake and I still miss the guitar. Good luck!

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