Excellent broken neck repair! You did it properly and it never break where you made the repair! Very strong and probably stronger than the natural wood! PERFECT! 👍🎸
Did not know about bowing the neck at the factory back in the day and wonder if early 2000's onward do as well? Regardless be worth doing it when repairing a neck/truss rod from now on? I've not noticed or heard it mentioned on other YT vids at all. 🤔Thanks for the insights, very informative. 👍
Yeah, you need tension on the trussrod throughout it's travel, with no dead spots ideally. It's a safeguard against an upbow or hump, which we rarely consider. Pretty much nothing you can do with a single action rod and an upbow.
Be very careful if trying to glue that carbon fibre, especially to wood. The carbon fibre was either compression molded or extrusion molded, and both processes would use lube of a type that makes the surface of the carbon fibre rod very UN sticky. If you want the Cf to glue you need to sand the heck out of it, basically remove the whole top layer, and with a fairlt coarse grit that leaves the surface very rough. Even then, it is hard to glue it to wood because wood is absorbant and CF is not, and they really require 2 different glue types. A low viscosity epoxy is probably best, it will adhere to the CF ok, and being low viscosity can soak into the wood and be a decent wood glue. Never use a thick epoxy. Also, the CF and wood will have very different profiles for thermal expansion and moisture absorbtion, so over time a CF/wood bond is never great because that will cause the 2 materials to separate and delaminate. Basically, my advice for CF is just DON'T. Glue wood to wood instead.
What a horrible head stock break makes me cringe good job on the repair hopefully this baby will get better care in the future these are 1970's ish flying v's many of my friends have them they are pretty lite and resonate verry good are the pickups still T tops ? Those would be the origionals cheers !
I've seen a good few headstock breaks happen in real time before my eyes, and none of them were caused by clumsyness or carelessness. Gibson's have an inherent design flaw. That's why so many end up broken.
@@blondegraemeyI use my LP studio as a travel guitar and transport it in a gigbag. I also bumped the headstock a couple of times, so I'm gonna agree with @monrominee- it's clumsiness. You're all talking about Gibson headstock like it's made of cardboard. It's not. Just don't throw it around like a sack of potatoes and You'll be fine.
You are a genius bringing luthery up to rocket science level !
@@RockStory-Steve-Randall ...wow...thanks bud!
Excellent broken neck repair! You did it properly and it never break where you made the repair! Very strong and probably stronger than the natural wood! PERFECT! 👍🎸
No affraid people like you is what we need. 😊
@@ManMartin ... thanks! .... I'm old enough to have learned by my many mistakes!
That's not only a repair,, that's an upgrade, it wouldn't feel devalued to me after your repair!
@@lancefielden thanks indeef
You do beautiful work and many thanks for more tips and tricks
Beautiful work! Well done!
Well looks like the second break third time's the charm seriously though great job really hard fix
Beautiful work....
Enjoyed your work ❤❤❤
Nice job mate.
Thanks 👍
Did not know about bowing the neck at the factory back in the day and wonder if early 2000's onward do as well? Regardless be worth doing it when repairing a neck/truss rod from now on? I've not noticed or heard it mentioned on other YT vids at all. 🤔Thanks for the insights, very informative. 👍
Yeah, you need tension on the trussrod throughout it's travel, with no dead spots ideally. It's a safeguard against an upbow or hump, which we rarely consider. Pretty much nothing you can do with a single action rod and an upbow.
Is there a second part? Thanks
The infamous Gibson headstock break, sure it's not the first one you've done!😄
@@ARWest-bp4yb correct!
Man.. On a nice figured Mahogany as well..
Be very careful if trying to glue that carbon fibre, especially to wood.
The carbon fibre was either compression molded or extrusion molded, and both processes would use lube of a type that makes the surface of the carbon fibre rod very UN sticky.
If you want the Cf to glue you need to sand the heck out of it, basically remove the whole top layer, and with a fairlt coarse grit that leaves the surface very rough.
Even then, it is hard to glue it to wood because wood is absorbant and CF is not, and they really require 2 different glue types. A low viscosity epoxy is probably best, it will adhere to the CF ok, and being low viscosity can soak into the wood and be a decent wood glue. Never use a thick epoxy.
Also, the CF and wood will have very different profiles for thermal expansion and moisture absorbtion, so over time a CF/wood bond is never great because that will cause the 2 materials to separate and delaminate.
Basically, my advice for CF is just DON'T.
Glue wood to wood instead.
Interesting how you have to set a single way truss rod! Glad i always build with a 2 way!
@@danielbreaux1842 yes, the truss-rod should have no dead spots if it's set correctly..
What a horrible head stock break makes me cringe good job on the repair hopefully this baby will get better care in the future these are 1970's ish flying v's many of my friends have them they are pretty lite and resonate verry good are the pickups still T tops ? Those would be the origionals cheers !
All original yes. I believe it's a 2005 reissue
Someone threw that guitar.
I thought the same thing.
@@lancefielden It's like Pete opened the backstage door to the fire escape and said, "bloody royt, it's flying!"
Nothing snaps off quite like a Gibson headstock
@@mushroomsamba82 .... but they do make for a bargain when they're broke!
something to be said for, you know, not whacking the sh&t out of your guitar, too. Or, ignore Gibson if you're clumsy.
I've seen a good few headstock breaks happen in real time before my eyes, and none of them were caused by clumsyness or carelessness. Gibson's have an inherent design flaw. That's why so many end up broken.
@@blondegraemey the Gibson "auto -eject headstock system" is not a flaw, it's a feature!
@@monrominee I hear you!
@@blondegraemeyI use my LP studio as a travel guitar and transport it in a gigbag. I also bumped the headstock a couple of times, so I'm gonna agree with @monrominee- it's clumsiness. You're all talking about Gibson headstock like it's made of cardboard. It's not. Just don't throw it around like a sack of potatoes and You'll be fine.
Actually looks like 05 or 07. Couldn't get a good look
@@vadenk4433 2005