1952 Les Paul head repair, broken in 1958....

[BCR/Greg]

This particular Goldtop was broken in a studio in NY in 1958 when it was laid on a couch and someone sat on it. They gorped a bunch of glue in, wrapped tape around it and torqued a big clamp on. In recent years, tuning became a party.

Well....Here's what we started with......

Yuck.

Signed by THE MAN, hisseff!

Parts off......

And it gets uglier......

 

[jbzoso2002]

These repair threads are awesome!!


Jimmy

 

[BCR/Greg]

Peel time!

OH. MY. GOD.

I never saw a festering headstock repair before. Time to go get some counseling.

 

[BCR/Greg]

Using microwaved damp paper towels to steam off the glue...

What's REALLY under there...

Verrrrrrrrrry NASTY! It broke like shuffling a deck of cards.

 

[garywright]

These repair threads are awesome!!


Jimmy

:salude

 

[BCR/Greg]

The front after cleanup....

Break line on the bass side, clamp compressions, general ugliness.

 

[BCR/Greg]

Routing for the splines. By hand. With a Dremel. While listening to the Allman Brothers.

Cutting the splines from 50's Gibson mahogany from the stash....

Shaping the splines. On a belt sander. By hand. While listening to Cactus.

So far, so good.

 

[BCR/Greg]

Splines ready for installation.....

Clamping. The small clamp keeps the splines parallel and allows more compression force to be used.

A week later....

Shaping them with my grandfather's chisel....

Ready for grain filling.

My job is pretty interesting.

 

[krapac]

Super, like all your works!

 

[T.Allen]

Cool!

 

[BCR/Greg]

First color on the repair...

Prepping the face for clear after a ton of cosmetic work....

A bit of clear nitro and we get this.....

...and the back......

 

[Bluestar]

:yah

 

[MWR]

:salude :salude :salude :salude :salude

 

[Kris Ford]

Enjoying the hell out of this! While listening to Humble Pie.:salude

 

[BCR/Greg]

Hellyeah.

 

[renderit]

Nice to watch somebody who actually cares about the job they do. Thank you sir!

 

[BCR/Greg]

I love my job.

 

[ourmaninthenorth]

I love my job.

I love watching you do your job.... whilst listening to King Crimson... :laugh2:

 

[slimdave]

Nice! Thanks for sharing

 

[Steve Craw]

Beautiful work!