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My attempt in repairing a Baby Taylor with cracked headstock heel.



The posting is at: http://cadam7777777.blogspot.com/2012/0 ... story.html

Sort of reminded me of that Gibson Les Paul that also belonged to a missionary type... cracked headstock where someone fixed it with screws.

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I have seen the Gibson from your blog. Good stuffs, the right way and not the easy way.

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aDAM

Nice fix but so much for those Taylor finger joints!

I read an article before where they claimed these finger jointed headstock were far superior to i just don't see it that way. It looks cheap too. Like those low budget counter tops and table you see at ikea.....Mike

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Another day, another dollar.

For what its worth, a baby taylor is a budget guitar, so they'll do what they can to reach the price point for the market...

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Cat-gut strings are made from kitten guts, stretched out to near breaking point and then hardened with grue saliva. As a result these give a feeling of Pain and anguish whenever played, and often end up playing themselves backwards as part of satanic rituals.

Typhoon Guitars
http://www.typhoon-guitars.com

ha, or soft pine furring strips at Home Depot....the 8' ones that cost about 95 cents each.....

At least someone didn't try to reassemble it with a hot glue gun!

Had a couple of thos nightmares come into the shop back in the day.

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You know the funny thing was, I've heard (I have not seen it myself) that a lot of the guitars that were fixed with wood screws were done by music store employees...

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Cat-gut strings are made from kitten guts, stretched out to near breaking point and then hardened with grue saliva. As a result these give a feeling of Pain and anguish whenever played, and often end up playing themselves backwards as part of satanic rituals.

Typhoon Guitars
http://www.typhoon-guitars.com

I think that we see things a bit differently than your average folk.... Remember - we are handy enough to build guitars.... so the idea of strong glue joints isn't foreign....

I think of furniture I inherited that shows repairs my Grandfather made on stuff... This is nice furniture - and I am forever finding screws, nails, and chunks of metal lapping over cracks here and there.... Now.. My own experience is that Nails in dry hardwood don't generally do a very good job... They tend to split the wood like crazy... and they always did... but it didn't stop him from putting in a couple nails and screws and then a little piece of angle iron.... or globbering glue into a crack and not clamping it shut...

Then... I remember watching my Brother in law hammering screws into wood .... to fix a door whose latch was not matching up with the hole in the jamb.... Once I figured out what he was trying to do - I was able to open up the hole a hair with the handy swiss army knife and the door latched properly... But.. Hammering screws into holes?

But, this sort of attitude is common to most facets of life.... Unfortunately, I think our pride gets in the way of just leaving well enough alone or hiring the work to a bona fide professional... Think of auto body repairs - where the repair man must not only undo the damage from the crash - but also from the ravages of well meaning owners and their nail hammers, pliers, drywall spackle work, and house paint....

Thanks