How to repair heavily damaged guitar neck - Cracked Ibanez Neck Repair - Dead to shred
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- čas přidán 2. 06. 2022
- I needed a shop guitar. A guitar that could live in the shop that I could access whenever necessary. It couldn’t be a nice guitar though. Everything I keep in the shop rusts, gets covered in sawdust and endures extreme heat, humidity and cold. It would have to be a guitar that has no value.
I found this made in China Ibanez Gio on eBay for $61 dollars. It was brand new but had been dropped at some point. It came in the original box, had all the accessories and even came with the little bag of candy that Sweetwater puts in all their shipping boxes. My plan was to give this broken guitar a 2nd life. I assessed the damaged and learned there were stress cracks at each tuner hole. The drop not only cracked the neck at the scarf joint but also cracked each tuner hole. I flooded the stress cracks with thin CA glue and clamped it over night. After that I was able to adhere the headstock back to the neck. I highly recommend surgical tubing. It is such a versatile tool. Once the glue cured, the neck was done. I could have easily stopped there and called it a day. But I went one step further and routed channels over the scarf cracks and glued splints in. I carved the splints with a whittling knife and sanded them to meet the neck profile.
I didn’t care for the black and red color scheme so I used a rattle can and sprayed the body green. I sprayed the red pick guard black and sprayed the knobs pink. For the neck, I masked off everything except the red binding and sprayed it pink as well. I used an acrylic paint marker to hand paint the shark tooth inlays pink. From far away it looks pretty good. To spray the pickup up bobbins, I just masked off the pickup and used small round magnets to mask the pole pieces. It plays very well. I didn’t have to do a fret job on it. The bridge pickup sounds really good. It has a very nasal-y mid-range modern metal tone. Neck pickup is too dark but it will do. Next time you see this guitar it will be hanging on the shop wall near my shop amp.
Thanks for watching, take it easy.
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Great job ! I recently bought an acoustic guitar ,with this type of repair,so it was great to see it done ! Nice shed 🎸 guitar!
So happy I found your channel. Always killer content and great playing.
You know... Iabnez guitars have this historical metal cheese factor that is undeniable. BUT, I have enjoyed the sound and feel of just about every Ibanez electric that I've played. The heat coming off those pickups 🔥 ... the demo was a perfect fit for that guitar, and I love the retro 80s aesthetic. Another great video Mark.
I feel the same way. Ibanez are my guilty pleasure.
I have an old Kaman guitar similar in style to this one, that had a crack in the headstock between the 6th and 5th string tuning holes, all the way down and all the way thru. But it was so tight I couldn't get any glue into it. I even tried Ted Woodfords suction cup trick, which I highly recommend. But still, too tight and closed. So eventually I made the decision to drill holes into the width of the headstock, perpendicular to the crack, and fill with wood glue and dowels. Just strang it up the other day and so far so good. The neck hasn't had tension on it in over 15 years so some things are a little wonky but we'll get it there. And if not, no big deal. I couldn't have imagined how much pleasure and enjoyment I get from fixing up a broken guitar. Love the content and keep it coming!
Great. Cliffs of Dover-esque tone at the end. love it
Very nice repair job Mark. I would've liked to see the re-finish as well though...
Amazing skills & attention to detail repairing the neck. Guitar looks & sounds awesome.
As always, good job
This was awesome to watch. I kind of wish we could have seen the paint job as well.. The fretboard and binding color change is sick!!!
I just used a rattle can from Montana Black. It is nitro-based and they have some interesting colors. Right on the can it says it is for Graffiti and not to be used for instruments. I did it anyway and liked the results. I sprayed a satin nitro clear over it. I can't complain. For the binding I masked off the fretboard and neck and sprayed the Pink rattle can from Montana Black. Also hit that with satin nitro clear. For the inlays I had to paint by hand using an acrylic marker.
@@MarkGutierrez Hey Mark you have some scammers hitting up comments on your previous videos!
@@fourspiralarms Thanks for the heads up. I think I was able to report and delete most of scammer comments.
Beautiful work sir.
Nice repair and all that... But the colour steals the show! It looks fantastic!
I kinda wish I’d watched this before I repaired my (spoiler alert) GGBO 2022 headstock fail. Nice work!
Is that you playing the bowed instrument in the park? Can you tell me more about that instrument. I've been on a quest to build a bowed guitar.
@@MarkGutierrez Yeah, that’s one of my earlier versions. I’m very happy with my recent builds. Still working out a few details but I’m hoping to be in business soon. Happy to answer your questions!
Make a video about recoloring a guitar fret board marks, pickup shield and the guitar body dipped in paint please!
Did you paint the fretboard inlays?
Tricky job, would have made a good video. 🤔
Great work!
One question tho - how did you protect trust rod inside those massive glue-up? I really thought that your choice will be fretboard removal to avoid glueing all together there...
Most of the glue was on the faces of the breaks. I didn't squeeze glue into the area where the truss rod was, I brushed it on. There was most definitely squeeze out into the truss rod channel but that was to be expected. Just as it is to be expected when building a neck from scratch. That little glue in or on the truss rod doesn't impact it too much. This truss rod turns perfectly.
Hi Mark, nice detailed work! May I ask you a question, what kind of green color did you put on it?
Hi Adrien, the link to the paint is in the description. I used: Montana Revolt Green Spray Paint. It literally states on the can it is not intended for instruments. I used it anyway.
@@MarkGutierrez Ops! sorry, my bad.
6:07...A " hot shot " with the glue in the neck .( from "Training Day' the film... ) Nice work !! did you loosen the trust rod before disassembly ? and it looks like a Steve Vai model , sounds great !!!
The truss rod was already in a neutral position. I have a suspicion that since this guitar came from Sweetwater, it had gone through their 30 point inspection and was dropped during that process.
@@MarkGutierrez Thank you for responding !!!
Do you have proprioceptive problems? You are always stroking things. People with low proprioception often do that to increase sensory awareness.