Gibson SG Surgury

   Ok so I am currently touring with an awesome band called Inward Eye. I got a good look at the guitar players (Kyle Erickson) Gibson SG Standard guitar and my heart sank. This guitar has some stories...

   Kyle bought it used from someone who apparently had some relationship issues. His girlfriend had taken a hammer to the body of the guitar and also managed to snap off the headstock. Kyle didnt seem to care and he bought it, repaired the headstock, painted it,  and played it. 

  

   

The guitar recently had been in a patch cord accident causing the wood surrounding the input jack to break. He fixed it with some super glue, but as soon as we had some down time I took it home and made a stainless steel plate for it. I had to pull the 1/4" plug out and do a little dirty work to make everything fit. I used a dremel with a milling bit to clear away some of the super glued wood on the inside of the guitar. I then sanded down the surface of the hole to make the plate sit flush. I then traced out the shape I wanted onto some stainless steel sheet and cut it out with a dremel cut off disc. 

I finished off the edges of the plate with my bench

 grinder then polished it up using sandpaper and various polishing compounds. The pressure of the bolt on the input jack held the plate on niceley but i put a small dab of hot glue under the plate to stop it from spinning in the future. I didnt want to screw it in becasue i really didnt think it would have looked as nice. It took about a half hour to cut out the shape and polish it and it was time well spent. I'm proud of the result. 

  A few weeks later the band was rehearsing in a studio and unfortunately the same  guitar was leaning up against a guitar cabinet and it fell. It FELL! Of couse the headstock snapped and I got a phone call. Kyke asked if I knew anybody who could repair headstocks. 

I had never done it before but i had read a lot about it and had seen other people do it so i jumped at the opportunity. 

 I used epoxy to fill the gap and clamped it with some small pieces of wood wrapped in wax paper. Thats as far as i have come so far. Once i take it off after 24 hours I am going to see how strong it is, and consider putting in some splices. We'll see. I'll keep you posted. :)

For my full guitar repair album go HERE