hamerhead Posted June 8, 2020 Share Posted June 8, 2020 Hypothetical question: Say you bought a relatively rare guitar with a neck that wasn't to your liking and already had a headstock repair. Would it be a bad thing to re-neck it with something that more fit your style/shape/size? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Haynie Posted June 8, 2020 Share Posted June 8, 2020 Relatively rare? Is it still collected by someone out there? It is your guitar to alter or butcher. Assuming the neck is not held in by screws there is a big cost in having a set-neck re-necked. For that money, just find another guitar. You can sell a guitar with a headstock repair. Other than Partscasters, you will get less interest in a Frankenaxe. You knew all that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kizanski Posted June 8, 2020 Share Posted June 8, 2020 23 minutes ago, Steve Haynie said: You knew all that. Exactly. What are you driving at, Tim? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamerhead Posted June 8, 2020 Author Share Posted June 8, 2020 Just throwing it out there for discussion. No, I haven't bought (or made) a mistake I'm trying to correct. Just seeing what y'all think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kizanski Posted June 8, 2020 Share Posted June 8, 2020 10 minutes ago, hamerhead said: Just seeing what y'all think. Since when do you give a shit what w'y'all think? What did you do?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Travis Posted June 8, 2020 Share Posted June 8, 2020 If it’s rare enough to command some money even with a headstock repair, and assuming it’s a bolt on, I would put a different neck on it to play but keep the original neck if I ever decided to sell it later... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jakeboy Posted June 9, 2020 Share Posted June 9, 2020 6 hours ago, Travis said: If it’s rare enough to command some money even with a headstock repair, and assuming it’s a bolt on, I would put a different neck on it to play but keep the original neck if I ever decided to sell it later... This. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottcald Posted June 9, 2020 Share Posted June 9, 2020 I'm guessing you're looking at this which obviously had headstock damage right after this: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cynic Posted June 9, 2020 Share Posted June 9, 2020 Not to hijack but I gotta know...Has there ever been a bolt on with a headstock repair? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crunchee Posted June 9, 2020 Share Posted June 9, 2020 7 hours ago, cynic said: Not to hijack but I gotta know...Has there ever been a bolt on with a headstock repair? I've seen a few bolt-on Fender necks with a crack/repair coming out of the low E tuner post routing. IIRC, they were all pre-CBS vintage, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diablo175 Posted June 9, 2020 Share Posted June 9, 2020 If it's bolt on, why the hell not? Save the old one for if/when you wanna sell it off. I re-necked 2 Cali's and was very satisfied with the results. So much so that I sold both of them years later.🤣 But seriously, they were sold off for reasons unrelated to how the necks played and I ended up getting pretty close to what I initially paid for the guitars and replacement necks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamerhead Posted June 9, 2020 Author Share Posted June 9, 2020 I was thinking more set-necks, because well....bolt-necks are bolt-necks for that purpose - to make neck swaps easy. On 6/8/2020 at 1:28 PM, kizanski said: What did you do?? I broke the neck off that old '60 ES-330 and glued in an Epiphone unit I found in the pile. It's bitchin'. The idea (for the original question) came from the post about the black 4-digit Standard - with a Sustain Block - for sale somewhere. If not for the tiny neck, it would be the perfect 4-digit. And if - again this is all hypothetical - it were to have had a headstock repair at some point in its life, would it be a bad thing to just re-neck it with something more suitable. Sure, it kills the value, but the hit has already been taken with the headstock break/repair anyways. I was actually thinking about buying it and breaking the neck so i could have it replaced... OK so I'm bored..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cynic Posted June 9, 2020 Share Posted June 9, 2020 You'd be better off sending one of your stash of sustain blocks (you did save one or two, right?) to someone like Shane at H.E.L. guitars for a scratch build. I've never commissioned more than some finish and plastics work from him but I bet he comes up well shy of the $5k being asked for that 4-digit. Or, you could buy my 4 digit and put a sustain block on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Studio Custom Posted June 10, 2020 Share Posted June 10, 2020 A guitar is a tool to create music, you find one that is close to your ideal and work on it until you find your nirvana. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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