So if anyone knows my story i bought a guitar online, it came in a g and g case, on of the latches did no open so i finally broke it open. Any case the guys i bought it from will only give me 50 bucks to cover the case and the case i have is worth 150 bucks. So i decided to take their money, and just buy a new latch and install it. Has anyone ever done this at home or not where would i go to do this?

I don't have any specific knowlege of your case or latch, but would pop-rivets fix it? Maybe drill out the old rivets, and replace with a simple pop rivet gun? Either way best of luck fixing it.

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A luggage repair place can help you out.

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You dig?

The Cheney latches are installed with tinman rivets which will need to be drilled out to remove. You'll usually find Cheney hardware on Ebay for reasonable $$$.

HTH

Arjay

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"Here's why reliability is job one: A great sounding amp that breaks down goes from being a favorite piece of gear to a useless piece of crap in less time than it takes to read this sentence." -- BRUCE ZINKY

i tried everything, i went to a lock smith who said pretty much all i can do is break it open and you can do it at home with a hammer or i can charge you 20 bucks to do it.

how about some pics?

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63supro
"The good thing is in a club situation, most of the patrons are trashed and really can't tell the difference."

After prying it open my family took the guitar away and said wait till christmas. Ill post some as soon as i can its a 62 reissue strat in surf green

actually i was wanting a pic of the lock area.
we look at strat pics too around here.

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63supro
"The good thing is in a club situation, most of the patrons are trashed and really can't tell the difference."