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Post subject: DAMAGED GUITAR! Should I get a new one!?
Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2013 2:44 pm
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So my cousin tried picking up my STD MIM guitar from the strap and it came off and went down like a hammer landing on the headstock.

It seems like the wood bent on impact and it cracked the guitar where the tross rod piece of wood joins with the rest of the neck, the rosewood seems a bit cracked aswell at mid neck.

I sounds ok I guess, but I'm not sure if the intonation was messed at those frets but I don't want to be worrying about it either...

I live in Guatemala so I can't just get a new neck. I really love the specific color of the neck and rosewood woods on this one anyway. I'm quite attached to my guitar in general, it's very distressing...

He offered to buy a new one, so I can either go to the store and see if I like any of the 2-3 guitars with the same color configuration they have. (rosewood/sunburst) or keep this damaged guitar....

This is my one and only main guitar, and I need it for gigs and recording as I'm serious about my music.

What do you guys think?

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Post subject: Re: DAMAGED GUITAR! Should I get a new one!?
Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2013 3:53 pm
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Can you post some pics of the damage incurred by your cousin too? :lol: Laughing with you not at you...this sucks.

I have no idea what to do or to recommend. I have a rule with my guitars. No one and I mean NO ONE touches them until I put the first ding or scratch on it myself. I don't want to be pissed off at any one and I know I would be.

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Post subject: Re: DAMAGED GUITAR! Should I get a new one!?
Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2013 5:36 pm
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Couple of questions ... When you're playing the guitar, can you feel a gap around the truss rod? Is the walnut skunk stripe inlay actually cracked? Is the skunk stripe protruding from the maple on the back of the neck?

If the stripe isn't too badly dislodged - and believe me, those things are fitted very precisely and glued in securely - then I'd guess that a sand and refinish of the back of the neck may be all you need.

If on the other hand the guitar hit the ground hard enough to knock the skunk stripe out of the maple then you're in trouble and it may be better to replace the neck rather than pay out to get the stripe removed, put back and re-glued in place.

Long story short, it may be okay and it may not. And you could find that a few months from now the truss rod starts pushing the walnut stripe further out.

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Post subject: Re: DAMAGED GUITAR! Should I get a new one!?
Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2013 5:51 pm
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You can't get a neck shipped to Guatemala?


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Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2013 7:02 pm
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I don't want "any" neck. I spend a few days, a few hours each at the store choosing the "right" one... :(


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Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2013 9:19 pm
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it appears from the pics just the finish cracked betweem the maple and the skunk stripe. If it still feels good, and the truss rod is stable and intact, I'd just sand the neck down and refinish.

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Post subject: Re: DAMAGED GUITAR! Should I get a new one!?
Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2013 9:47 pm
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Arnold Layne wrote:
and the truss rod is stable and intact


How do I test that? Just adjust about?


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Post subject: Re: DAMAGED GUITAR! Should I get a new one!?
Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2013 10:25 pm
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Don't worry about it. I dropped my mim strat and cracked the skunk stripe too. At first I was pretty dismayed but then I realized that the guitar still played the same. I hit it with a little 600 grit sand paper followed by some 0000 steel wool to take the roughness off. I try to be more careful with it since but at the same time, the guitar now has a bit of character and a story to go along with it. Anyway, SRV had his headstock snapped off and had repaired it. I cannot be convinced that a little crack along the stripe is any worse than what befell his Number One. Just play it and be happy :D

At least you know the neck you have on your strat can take a fall and keep coming back for more!


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Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2013 11:21 pm
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bindatype wrote:
Don't worry about it. I dropped my mim strat and cracked the skunk stripe too. At first I was pretty dismayed but then I realized that the guitar still played the same. I hit it with a little 600 grit sand paper followed by some 0000 steel wool to take the roughness off. I try to be more careful with it since but at the same time, the guitar now has a bit of character and a story to go along with it. Anyway, SRV had his headstock snapped off and had repaired it. I cannot be convinced that a little crack along the stripe is any worse than what befell his Number One. Just play it and be happy :D

At least you know the neck you have on your strat can take a fall and keep coming back for more!


In a way this is the answer I was looking for... I'm thinking of charging him half the price of the guitar, for the damage and keep it. That would be fair right?


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Post subject: Re: DAMAGED GUITAR! Should I get a new one!?
Posted: Tue Jul 16, 2013 5:35 am
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Using USA prices. A new neck is $200. A new MIM standard strat is $450. So, I'd say 1/2 is pretty reasonable. That and if you have to engage a luthier to fix it in the future it will probably cost you the same as a new neck. So, again, 1/2 seems reasonable.


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Post subject: Re: DAMAGED GUITAR! Should I get a new one!?
Posted: Wed Jul 17, 2013 6:06 pm
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Well, the thing is I'm noticing that some frets right above the crack are not well intonated, it makes sense that the tiny curvature change on the neck has messed the intonation up... I don't want to even have to think about this when this is my main gig/recording guitar... I went to the store and both the guitar's salesman and repair guy at the store said it was messed up. I'll have to wait 2 months in order to check them out anyway, because they don't have this model/color now.


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