The easiest way to have them repaired is to hire an asphalt maintenance contractor. They might be hairline cracks for now, but neglect them, and you're bound to spend thousands of dollars to have them repaired when the cracks widen or become potholes. It only takes one particularly harsh winter with its repeated freeze-thaw cycle or extreme heat and flooding during summer for cracks to form.Īs a residential or commercial property owner, these cracks are bad news.
#Stock crack repair upgrade#
Haze Guitars provides instrument repair, restoration and upgrade services in Dublin, Ireland.Cracks in asphalts have a way of cropping up when you least expect them.
This article was brought to you by Gerry Hayes from the workshop of Haze Guitars. Read that in the brilliantly titled, Heads Up 2 – Headstock Cracks (A Bit More Challenging).
Next time, we’ll go with something a bit more challenging. No touchup was performed and the clean-up of the hide glue is nice and easy too – some warm water does the trick. This instrument is a budget guitar and the owner just wanted it made sound. I’m not even using cauls here – the clamp jaws are soft and there’s not much area over which to spread the load. As you can see, I’ve put wax paper between the clamps and the repair to prevent them all getting glued together. The pressure is coming form the two smaller bar-clamps. The larger, wooden cam-clamp in the image is there to keep the repair aligned and isn’t exerting a lot of pressure. Then – and again the location is lucky – the crack can be easily clamped without any hassle. Once it’s open, hot hide glue is worked in without too much bother. The location allows for the crack to be opened quite easily by wedging (carefully) into the tuner hole. The crack is along the scarf line where the manufacturer glued an extension to the neck blank in order to form the peghead itself. In some cases, as in this classical peghead crack, it’s not too difficult. This means inventive ways to open the crack and to work the glue in must be found. all the way) into the darkest recesses of the crack, the repair is not as good as it could be. One drawback of a crack is that, in most cases, it’s difficult to work sufficient glue into the crack to get a sound repair.
There is usually still some wood holding somewhere and aligning the pieces of the crack tends to be straightforward. An Easy Headstock Crack RepairĪ headstock crack is generally a little better than a complete break. We’re going to start with some – relatively – straightforward stuff: cracks. If you do manage to break or crack your guitar’s neck or peghead, don’t panic. Pop your guitar in its case or on a secure hanger and you reduce your chances of breaking your head. Angled headstock guitars are particularly susceptible to this sort of damage and Gibsons even more so (although by no means exclusively). If everybody put their guitars in their cases when they weren’t being used instead of leaning them against their amps, guitar repair-guys all over the world would see their incomes drop. That bit up the end of your guitar neck can sometime be a bit vulnerable and I thought we’d outline the repairs to some of the issues that can occur.īefore we get going, the majority of (but not all) problems and damage to a guitar or bass’s headstock is caused by the instrument falling. I’m going to take a bit of a look at headstock damage.
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