If you can't get a replacement for free, I guess you could always buy another.

Throw away the broken body and you have a lot of spare parts in case something else breaks on the new one ...

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My other guitar is a Strat.

As an update: my dad took her and titebond'd the hell out of her. I went down Easter weekend and rebuilt her. The bridge is slightly crooked now, but I've had her strung and been playing her since then and she's holding tune. Needs a setup, as I'm getting huge amounts of fret buzz now. A friend of mine is going to walk me through that next weekend. I can only hope that she holds up. Thanks all!!!

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Will

:O i have a few dings in my guitar :/ i guess im going to have to do this as well ha im seriously going to miss that thread!

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A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. ~Leopold Stokowski~

Titebond eh??? well I never.

What has probably happened with the action is that the repaired trempost area is slightly skewed or has sunk. Causing that side of the trem to sit lower. Luckily you should be able to just raise the trempost up a bit. I have a figure of 1.5mm body top to the underside of the tremplate in my mind, as being that systems correct height. Re set the saddles once you've set the plate to the desired height.
Please also remember to slacken the strings and take the springs off the tremclaw before you make any adjustment. It's easy to wreck a trem by adjusting pivot posts with a load of tension on the thing. In your case it could be even worse.

All the best and well done with the repair.

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Hi Staredge: thank you for coming back and telling us how it's going. Very interesting - care to show us some pics so's we can get a better idea? Your photos at the beginning were very useful.

Good luck with it.

BTW:

Anything you'd like to show us pictures of, CR92? Always interested, as you know...

Cheers - C

I will get some Pics up on here Asap its not a Fender but its better in the sense that its higher quality stuff beundled together without the name Would like to show you guys actually

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Neat!

When you're ready...

Cheers - C

Wow, these pics really bum me out. My EVH Music Man is experiencing the exact same problem, although it hasn't gone that far. The trem post on the low E string is pulling forward though. I don't know about later models but mine has the trem posts right into the wood, no metal thing in there to screw into.
MULLY

Sure....I can do that.

This pic shows how the bridge is cockeyed now. Been like that since I put it back together. Looking at it from the string holes in the backplate, it looks straight.



This is a close up of the repair. I didn't think to take any before I put her back together. Little bit of paint chipping, but thats about it. We'll see what happens down the line.

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Absolutely, all are saying right that can be reparable. I was the same situation of my guitar and i took it to the mechanics and the problem was sort out.

New update: she blew out again. Suppose we'll try again. Looks like the glue held...it just blew a smaller chunk out this time.

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Will theres got to be a reason this is happening. Either how you set the guitar or a inherent flaw to that particular lump of timber making up the body.

Where did this other blow out happen? I'm suprised at the bass side pivotpost going as the treble strings are the higher tension ones. I'd have thought that would go first.

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From my thinking, there must originally have been an inherent flaw on the bass side for it to give first, then perhaps with the repair job, the bass side was weaker for it, thus giving out under the tension again?

Yeah I see what your saying Ray but it would be mightily unlucky to get a piece of wood that has that flaw precisely where that bass side pivot post sits. Theres 2 and a bit inches between the two posts. Glue repairs do have a tendency to be very strong, ok I'm not familiar with titebond I presume its a good glue.
Ed Roman said Gibson should break all their necks prior to painting as repaired headstocks are stronger than the undamaged ones. A bit extreme and harsh I know. But theres a grain of truth in it, a good repair can be stronger than the original wood.
The OP did say that the glue held with this new blowout. I can only presume the timber chunk has gone from another area.

All a bit confusing.
Anyhow my solution is to carve the old timber out right across the front end of the trem cavity and glue a lump of maple in. If you can route it to extend beyond the affected area, and therfore be surrounded by the original bodywood on each side. It should be strong as hell. Bit of a jigsaw puzzle I know, but it would work.

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Good luck with your reparation.

I had to buy a new guitar for one similar problem, but sure that you can repaire it.

Regards