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Just want to add that if it were not for basket-case guitars, I'd never have had a guitar in the first place. A Kent with non-working electronics was nothing compared with this mess, but you should've seen the '69 Les Paul Custom that replaced it! It was not merely damaged, it was mutilated.* I cannot conceive why someone would inflict on that guitar the damage they did - I guess once the headstock went nothing mattered anymore. I did what i could with it, and even eventually bribed a real luthier to re-fret the poor thing (those fret-less wonder "frets" were a threat to navigation when they were new, let alone after years of abuse). I played it for years ( it looked pretty good from a distance, it was only behind it you could see the knuckle-biting scars and the horror story they told). It is now my grandson's, and still making music.
* Adding a Bigsby ineptly to it was just the beginning of the insults and injuries this guitar would suffer, before we rescued it.Last edited by citizenk74; 01-26-2022 at 02:01 PM.
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01-21-2022 01:38 PM
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I'm sure you could buff that right out and nobody would ever be able to tell.
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Originally Posted by wintermoonOriginally Posted by Jimmy blue noteOriginally Posted by citizenk74Originally Posted by Jimmy blue noteOriginally Posted by Doctor JeffOriginally Posted by skykomishone
If you want it to be undetectable you pull the front peghead veneer, slice the back of the peghead into a veneer (or use accurate serial-number punches) and re-neck it. (You might save the fingerboard. You might save the truss. You might save the binding. It might look cleaner if you just do it over from scratch.)
Who does that? A Les Paul re-manufacturer like Historic Makeovers, whose bread-and-butter is to turn 2019 Les Pauls into convincing "1959 Les Paul 'bursts." This is a fairly easy job for them -- no need for a convincing 63-year-old reliced paint-job; the customer wants it un-dented.
Because at some price-point somebody will pay $x,xxx.xx but this S-400 and they will want it to be worth $xx,xxx when they go to sell it. And they'll be honest, fully disclosing that it has a replacement neck. But their buyer or that one's buyer . . . somewhere down the line, that fact will get lost in the shuffle, and it never happened.
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I think something funky is going on with this auction. I reached out to the seller and asked a few simple questions. He dodged answering them.
Also, his ebay info says he's in N.C. and this auction says it ships from Pennsylvania. The screws are probably there because the repair failed.
It's hard to tell for sure, but it looks like the heel may be cracked too.Last edited by guitarcarver; 01-22-2022 at 01:32 AM.
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I got an offer of $4500 from the seller, but I had no interest, but someone just snagged it.
anyone here?
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Update 1/26 see original post
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Originally Posted by wintermoon
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One review for one transaction and it was on 1/22. What could go wrong?
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Naima's Boutique, in Belgium? Sounds like a house of ill repute.
Wow.
And, it's down to almost $3K.
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And it got from Pennsylvania to Belgium in a day.
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So I've been wondering why everyone is talking about that neck as the only problem.
That body has been wrenched and torqued by the neck and that has caused a grain split in the top from the edge of the neck block into the body, which 1) is very tricky to cleat and repair properly and 2) is just one unmentioned and ostensibly unnoticed indication that there is MUCH more amiss with this gem than you can possibly know from the ad.
I'll tell you right now, this is not normal:
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Originally Posted by Jimmy blue note
mentioned in post #14
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Originally Posted by Cunamara
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Originally Posted by Jimmy blue note
no, it probably means only a few people caught it
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