My attempt in repairing a Baby Taylor with cracked headstock heel.
The posting is at: http://cadam7777777.blogspot.com/2012/0 ... story.html
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| Author: | cadam5150 [ Sun Feb 19, 2012 10:18 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Featured Restoration (A Baby Taylor Story Again) |
My attempt in repairing a Baby Taylor with cracked headstock heel. The posting is at: http://cadam7777777.blogspot.com/2012/0 ... story.html |
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| Author: | Tai Fu [ Mon Feb 20, 2012 4:11 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Featured Restoration (A Baby Taylor Story Again) |
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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| Author: | cadam5150 [ Mon Feb 20, 2012 6:56 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Featured Restoration (A Baby Taylor Story Again) |
Tai Fu wrote: Sort of reminded me of that Gibson Les Paul that also belonged to a missionary type... cracked headstock where someone fixed it with screws. I have seen the Gibson from your blog. Good stuffs, the right way and not the easy way. |
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| Author: | Mike Dotson [ Mon Feb 20, 2012 3:38 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Featured Restoration (A Baby Taylor Story Again) |
Nice fix but so much for those Taylor finger joints! 
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| Author: | Shaw [ Tue Feb 21, 2012 1:49 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Featured Restoration (A Baby Taylor Story Again) |
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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| Author: | Tai Fu [ Tue Feb 21, 2012 1:51 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Featured Restoration (A Baby Taylor Story Again) |
Shaw wrote: 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 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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| Author: | nyazzip [ Tue Feb 21, 2012 4:52 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Featured Restoration (A Baby Taylor Story Again) |
Quote: It looks cheap too. Like those low budget counter tops and table you see at ikea..... ha, or soft pine furring strips at Home Depot....the 8' ones that cost about 95 cents each..... |
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| Author: | Chris Pile [ Tue Feb 21, 2012 7:54 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Featured Restoration (A Baby Taylor Story Again) |
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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| Author: | Tai Fu [ Tue Feb 21, 2012 8:08 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Featured Restoration (A Baby Taylor Story Again) |
Chris Pile wrote: 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. 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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| Author: | truckjohn [ Thu Feb 23, 2012 7:10 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Featured Restoration (A Baby Taylor Story Again) |
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 |
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