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Les paul neck repair advice
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Les paul neck repair advice
Hi, just joined and this is my first post, excited to be a part of the Group! I‘ve been building and repairing guitars and amps for about 15 years but am a better builder than repair person.
I have a les paul that has a small but definitely there crack in the neck where the head to neck joint is. It’s very tight but does look to be in the wood. Not sure the best method to fixing something like this. I have attached pics for reference.
Any help would be very very appreciated.
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Those are tricky. Have you tried flexing it and throwing some naphtha to see how it flows in ? When they are that tight, sometimes all you can get in is CA and that is a terrible glue for that. Also, did this guitar take a hit ?
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Yes, they are not fun. Did not try the namptha trick, did flex it pretty good and it didn’t move from what I could tell. Yeah, CA glue is what i was thinking but like you said it’s bad for this type of repair. I did do some light wet sanding and that darkened the Crack a bit so I know its in the wood.
It did take a hit. Got the $$$ for the damage now just wanting to figure out a good fix and finish touch up if possible.
Thanks!
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Update, I tried the naphtha thing. It didn’t flow in very much, and I tried to get it to open again without much success so I ended up trying to get some CA glue in and now I’m going to let that dry clamped and touch up the finish. To be honest I don’t know how much glue got in the Crack either but without making the break larger I won’t be able to flow more in and I don’t want CA glue all over the neck of the guitar.
Any ideas on how to touch up the finish once I sand the CA down?
Thanks!!
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