HTS Make New Headstock

When a Headstock snaps off and we have broken grain, you can glue it back on, you can spline it, many things can be done, but when someone removes large sections of the wood previous to you repairing it, sometimes you have to just make a new headstock

In this instance the customer has purchased the guitar with a headstock repair carried out, the headstock repair involved them removing 3 inches of the neck and when that failed fitting two tek screws, in this instance its better for the guitar to have a new headstock fitted vee the reverse scarf method.

Time to repair approx 6 hrs over 4 days (glue drying times)

Having a closer look, we can see lumps of wood that do not belong

Like so

If you have a close look at the truss rod recess, its a mess, no way the truss rod could have ever worked in this area.

We remove the inserted piece of wood.

This is all that's left of the original neck

So the plan is for a new headstock with a reverse scarf

Using masking tape, I line some reference marks where I would like to cut the neck

Using an overhead router, I remove the bulk of the wood on the desired angle

Like so,

I later found I could remove the truss rod by winding the burns box and drawing it out, would have made this section redundant

Chisel the remaining area flat

The Gretsch as it arrived to customers premises vee ebay purchase.

Nasty break, and screws as well, and where the truss rod goes under the head plate is an absolute mess

So we separate the headplate of with some steam

Again like so.