Right well Ive been playing guitar for a few years now and bought myself a twelve string as a treat on my 20th birthday! Regrettably, it soon got cast aside in favour of my delicious Takamine 6 string NEX body and was rarely used, never had a new set of strings in 5 years! Thought it was about time to change them, seeing as some had snapped and it was now a seven string

So last week I did the deed, and spent 4 hours stripping, cleaning and restringing it, lemon oiled the fretboard, polished the body and it played like new! I was blown away!

So last week I was playing away on it and heard a crack.... hmm, cant be the guitar, so I carried on...

Next time I went to pick it up I saw this



Whoops!

So Ive had a bit of spare time today to begin, and after consulting a few Luthier types it seemed the best way to finish the break off, to give me the best chance of getting a good bond back together.

Todays progress:

Strings off:


Machine heads out:


Shameless arty pic


So I was down to this


The next step was to finish the break
Scared me shitless doing it, but it went very cleanly, and at such an angle it give me a huge surface area to reset





Close up


And as it sits now < real!


I'll hopefully get it set and clamped up later this afternoon, and update with more pics soon!

PS I know its not a car, thought this would be the best place to put this thread, and I have another Guitar build project in the pipeline, so I'll get a thread sorted for that one too if you want to see?

Steve