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feedback on Les Paul Headstock repair
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Gibson headstock fix questions
I have 1988 Gibson ES-335 with a broken headstock. It was poorly glued before and is broken again. I can't get the broken faces of the wood to close up due to the mess of glue or whatever is in there. The headstock overlay is the only thing holding it together. I have a couple of questions:
- Any idea what glue was used to attach the headstock overlay? Is it easy to remove cleanly? I'd like to at least loosen the part of it on the neck side (around the truss rod cavity) so I can separate the pieces and maybe clean up the surfaces.
- I'm thinking that even if I get the pieces apart, it will be hard to achieve good gluing surfaces. I know splines are one way to strengthen a repaired headstock. I am wondering if instead I could rout both surfaces flat, and then glue in a new piece to take up the gap. In this case I'd need to remove the entire overlay. In the drawing I'm attaching the red hatched area represents the filler piece.


