Are Guitars With Repaired Headstocks Worth It?

Kevsom

(Hey guys; sorry if this isn't in the right forum! Let me know and I'll motion it over there )

I recently institute an SG at a guitar shop in a colour I dear for a really cheap price (around $450). I come to observe out it's at this price because it had a croaky headstock. I brought this up with the sales rep and he told me information technology had "professional work done" on information technology. I'chiliad skeptical because they couldn't actually requite me any more than info. Practise you guys call up it's worth keeping or should I bring information technology back? I have 45 days to brand up my mind merely it's such a gorgeous color to me. I'm not the blazon to sell my guitars either so I don't care about the resale value in the hereafter. I just want information technology to be dependable and requite it a forever home! Delight help me out every bit I've never run I to this problem earlier!

Herbie74w

Please mail some pictures. A properly repair headstock is not an event.

SG John

I have a '68 SG Junior with a headstock repair that is fine. The kickoff repair was a hack job, but lasted over thirty years. Had it done correctly about 12 years agone, and it'due south solid as a rock.

Layne Matz

Not to diffidcult of a repair. Splines arent necessary if at that place is enough apartment contact points for the Titebond. I recently repaired a 12 cord solely with titebond and clamps, its been property just fine despite high tension heavy guage strings, tons of use, and one good spill off a chair-landing on the headstock of grade, all the same no damage washed. A vi string with lite gauge strings will have NO PROBLEM holding if repaired by and large the correct way which is dead simple.

Keep that beauty!

AngelDeVille

If you oasis't already bought it, go it as cheap every bit y'all peradventure can, simply get it.

she's a beauty.

Tony M

I have an early 70'southward SG with a headstock repair.
I have played that guitar on over a thousand jobs.
It's not an outcome at all if the repair was washed right.

Col Mustard · November 20, 2022

Welcome to ETSG!

Gibson guitars have a weak bespeak in the headstock joint
where the 17 degree back angle cuts across the grain of the mahogany.
I like to say this weak point is a cost we pay for the awesome tone
we go from our Gibsons.

Virtually professional person luthiers repair several of these a month,
it'southward how they put their kids through higher. For Gibson repair guys,
it's routine piece of work. Tone doesn't suffer.

A Gibson with an expertly repaired headstock can brand excellent music,
and final longer than its possessor'south career. Buying one is a way
to beget an expensive Gibson guitar,
because the headstock break reduces the MONETARY value
of the guitar. So you tin can get a fine Gibson without paying
as much.

What to avert is the inexpertly repaired headstock, washed
past its owner or former possessor and not by a professional person luthier.
How expertly the repair was done should be easy
to see. Experience information technology with your fingers, squint at it with your eye.
If yours looks tight and feels smooth, it's probably okay.

Play information technology a lot. If the tone is great, then forget about the
break until it'southward time to sell the guitar. But don't sell it.

ETSG wisdom says:
IF YOU NEED MONEY, DON'T SELL YOUR SG...
SELL SOMETHING ELSE.

Col Mustard

Oh yeah, almost all Gibson guitars share this weak signal.
All the ones with the back angled headstock, including
Les Pauls and ES- serial and Hummingbirds and J-45s
and whatever guitar with a back angled headstock and a mahogany neck.

Fender avoided this problem by making guitar necks out of hard stone
maple, and using string tree hardware instead of the back bending.
Fender guitars sound awesome besides. Many new Gibson models contain
a maple neck. These are probable stronger than the mahogany because the
grain construction is different. I take two newer Gibsons with maple necks.
They sound awesome too. *grins
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Epiphone avoids this problem by using a 14 degree back bending and making their guitar
necks with two pieces joined by a "scarf joint" that seems to make them more practical
and less probable to get cleaved. Epiphone is clever this way. Their guitars sound awesome
likewise. Become figure.
Headstock back@100.jpg
The rest of u.s.a. Gibson owners demand to follow Professor Moody's advice:
CONSTANT VIGILANCE!
Nosotros must never lean our prized Gibsons against tavern walls on their headstocks,
never lean them against an amp where they can fall over.
We must always keep them on high quality stands or in their cases.
Nosotros must never allow other gorillas to play our Gibsons when drunk.
If we play on outdoor stages, we need to consider the wind, and protect our
Gibsons from falling or getting blown over.

Constant vigilance is worth it, because our Gibsons sound so skillful.

Gahr

I have an SG and a Les Paul with repaired headstocks, and I used to take a repaired Les Paul inferior as well. All great guitars acquired at great prices. I would take no qualms about buying the guitar if information technology is stable.

DaveInSoCal

It looks like a home repair to me, not maxim it's non good just not / sanded finished as a luthier would do information technology.

DaveSG

I have 3 Gibson SGs. All three accept headstock repairs. The '71 SG Standard in my avatar? Headstock repair. I've gotten ii of my other SGs with headstock cracks, unrepaired. Repaired the right way, with hot hide glue and then the joint won't creep. Awesome guitars. Lots of guitars accept had headstock repairs that take gone on to create fantabulous music. Don't let it hinder you in the slightest!

HackeIommi

The paint task is not perfect, but the repaired area seems good. A lovely SG with an ebony fingerboard. Skilful opportunity!!

Franktone

It looks like a decent repair to me. Cute guitar with ebony lath and binding around the head stock.

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