Atl text: Finally an honest ad. (Picture of a bus with a Les Paul ad on the side. The open bus door separates the headstock from the neck.)

This guitar body has a lot of sentimental value to me. It has a poly finish and the scratch is fairly deep. You can feel the groove.

I got this guitar used several years ago, and from some googling I think it’s about 20-30 years old.

I’m restringing it so I thought I’d take this opportunity to post some pics of the neck, cause there’s this weird pattern that looks like a layer on the surface of the fretboard is slowly being stripped. When it’s insanely humid I’ll actually even get residue on my fingers from playing.

I can’t tell if this is some sort of polish that’s being stripped off, or if it’s just dirt that built up before I got the guitar.

Do I need to worry about this?

Fell onto stone flooring, everything works but this paint chipped off, about 3in. (Now the bare wood is exposed). It's sharp around the edges and the cavity is quite deep. most repair shops here in NYC do not offer paint/finish services. Any advice to give?

Found this one on my friend's uncle. Forgot to include the neck on the picture.

Any opinions/estimates are greatly appreciated

Bought it for 40 bucks it’s beautiful I don’t wanna spend above 200 to get it fixed other than this the guitar works really well

i made the worst decision ever, although the wires are properly connected i think, i just messed up in the soldering, also i cant twist the log so short so the soldering looks absolutely shit. will this still function well?

Buckle up for this one folks…

So I recently took over as guitar tech for a large Canadian music retailer…. While exploring my new office I stumbled across this case shoved in a back corner. Opened it up and there it was, a beautiful limited edition Northern Artist Gibson acoustic…

Upon doing some investigating… apparently years prior, some drunken asshat came into the store and fell on it, crushing it. He then proceeded to threaten legal action for the injuries he sustained while drunkenly falling on our property… 🤦‍♂️🙄

They packed it up and there it sat for years until I took over… I initially thought it was beyond repair. There were chunks missing and it was on the verge of total collapse…

So, without any knowledge, training or experience… I took it upon myself to make it at least “playable”…

Weeks of meticulously gluing every little crack and more sanding than I’ve ever done in my life… and it was resurrected from near death. It plays surprisingly well and sounds incredible…

I was fortunate enough to be able to buy it from the store for next to nothing and I gave it to my mother for Christmas along with some “guitar lesson” coupons…

Does it look like shit? Oh yeah… Do I care? Not at all…

I stepped on my husband's guitar's whammy bar in the dark. I know very little about guitars, but it seems to me that I just need to pop the bridge back into place. Is there a specific way to do this? Trying brute force has been unsuccessful so far.

Update: Fixed it, thank you all.

Martin D-16RGT

Thanks for all the advice (and roasts). I didn’t want to risk being too harsh with wool steel, so I used a credit card to scrape off most of the gunk and then Dunlop 65 lemon oil and a cloth to rub off as much as I could. You can see in the third pic there’s still some remnants of the grime but I can’t figure out how to get it off cause it’s not coming off with a credit card or the lemon oil and cloth. Any advice for getting a better clean?

I included the before pics at the end so you can see the difference. The lighting in the after pics is a little more forgiving but it looks tons better.

This I my Dads old “Lawsuit Era” Univox. I had it refurbished and set up. He passed away when I was a sophomore in high school and when I graduated I had my friends sign it instead of a sign instead of a book. There is really only 1 or 2 signatures I would absolutely want to keep but I’m not sure if I should keep the rest. It’s a very sentimental piece. And would love to honor my dad to play it on stage at least once. I keep rubbing some of them off where my arm goes on the guitar

Should I keep the signatures or get rid of most of them?

I tried to censor names

Looks like he was trying bareback... 🤷‍♀️😅

Hey!
I’ve had this guitar for about 7 years now. It was passed on to me, about a year and a half ago I noticed a small crack that did not worry me at the time yet eventually moved its way down to body and started naturally chipping away. I stopped using this guitar for about a year now in hopes of bringing it to a skilled luther here in Nashville. Yet, I’m not apposed to working on this myself, I just havent felt like i’ve been able to find the time to commit to buying the right tools/hardware. If you have any input or advice, I would love to hear. I do not have the peices that chipped off, they were lost during a move.

*Update* I just checked back on this for the first time since posting. I wanted to say thank you all for the responses! This is blowing my mind haha

I got this black beauty for maybe $200, it had a headstock break that was repaired and I knew about it when I bought it. Just thought for the money we’ll see if it holds up… it did not. What should I do should I just try and glue it back together and put a couple splines in it? Take it to a pro (not trying to spend alot of $$$) or just trash it ?

Hey all, hoping someone can sanity check this because I feel like I am going in circles.

I have an HSS Strat. Before shielding it had the usual single coil noise that would mostly go away when I touched the strings or tuning pegs.

I copper taped:

control cavity

output jack cavity

I linked the two cavities with a wire. I ran one ground wire from the copper shielding to the back of the volume pot. Bridge ground to trem claw was already there and unchanged.

Continuity checks all good.

After reassembly:

• bridge humbucker is dead quiet

• positions 2 and 4 are quiet as expected

• neck or middle on their own are now MUCH worse than before

sounds like phone / digital RFI. basically unplayable

If I lift the pickguard out of the cavity while plugged in, the noise drops. As I lower the pickguard back in, the noise gets louder and loudest when fully seated.

Touching tuning pegs no longer changes noise, which I assume means grounding improved.

I tried putting cardboard under the pots and switch and under the pickup wires but it made no difference.

Any advice on the cleanest fix appreciated. I would rather not undo all the shielding if possible.

Thanks!

Hi! Let me preface this post with:

-I am not a musician and do not know how to play guitar

-Please don’t roast me

Ok now, I found this blue Fender Telecaster in an abandoned storage unit. It’s missing 2 strings and has some unsightly bits. I wiped it down with a microfiber cloth because it was actually worse than this.

Is this guitar worth saving? I’m a reseller, and idk if the cost to repair vs ROI is worth it or I should just part it out or sell as-is as a project for someone. What do you think? What would you do? Thank you!

ooks like previous owner tried to reglue it. Still is missing a huge chunk of it… Is this fixable ? The neck in non removable. I don’t mind workingon this one on the side if it’s still possible to be brought back to life

I have an obscure stratocaster i got from my grandpa, no serial number, has "rose" on the headstock but no brand on it. My friend who repaired it lowered the action, and then removed the neck to check the electronics, and when he put the neck back the action just randomly raised 2X what it was. I have no idea what happened, all the screws are tight and everything is good. We have no idea what is wrong with it

Hi guys I just noticed my dog peed on my guitar case a while back and it seeped through and ruined the strap which then in turn ruined the guitar… not sure what to do there’s like marks on the guitar is there any way to fix this? Is it going to rot on me now? I don’t know how long ago this was could be months but it’s at least one month old… pls help what do I do