Well, here's another chapter in my guitar building carreer...
A close and dear friend had a nice western guitar but her son knocked it over and the neck cracked. Or actually, it broke. The only thing that held it in place was the fretboard. I asked her if I could give it try to fix it. And she didn't mind.
So how to fix it? If it broke completety, I could have just put the glue on one side, put it back together and let it dry but because the fretboard didn't break I had to find a way to get the glue in the crack. I took a injection needle and used that to get the glue inside the crack, I kept on pushing glue into it untill it ran out on all sides. After that it was just a matter of putting the clamps on it and let it cure..
When it was dry I had to fix the finish of course.. There was a piece of wood missing so I filled it with epoxy. But first I stained the uncolored wood to match the red of the neck. After the stained area was dry I filled the gap with the clear epoxy and let it cure. Because I had to sand the piece of the neck where the crack was, the high gloss finish was gone and it was now matt. After the epoxy was dry I sanded it flush with the neck. And yesterday I sprayed some clear laquer from a spray can on it. I have to see yet how it turned out but I think it went well..
I also did some other small repairs and some cleaning. You know how dirt can build up on a guitar.. So now it's all shiny again and I even noticed that the protective sticker was never removed from the pick guard. So that will be a surprise! from matt to high gloss! When I am done with the paintjob I will give the fretboard some oil as well as the bridge. They look a bit dry so I guess a lil'oil won't hurt..
I hope my friend will be happy to have her guitar playable again. She kinda gave up on it and I think she will be surprised to see it back together again..
Today I sanded the sprayed laquer with 1200 grit and after that I used some steel wool. It now has a satin gloss and I will buff it all when the laquer has cured long enough. But it looks good already. I gave the hardware a good rub and now it has a showroom shine...
here is the final result. unfortunately I had an accident with the buffing thing on my drill. Held it too close to the edge so the plastic back touched the laquer. Besides that, I think it looks ok..
In the meantime I have another small project: my friend with the cracked neck has another guitar, but the person she got it from removed the jack output and put in an XLR connection. She has no cable for it so I said I could fix that. nothing major but nice to do and gain some experience... 
And I did a little adjusting on the bass of our bass player. He asked me if I could lower the neck pickup because the B string sometimes touches the pole pieces which of course makes a loud popping sound. It surprised me he said I could take it with me because he is very very carefull with his guitars. A simple job but I felt honoured to do this..
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here is a pic of some projects I am working on... the black and red one has the shape of our band logo... Just Right!
The white one is fixed, and has left the building... In the meantime I did a job on an Ibanez Artist of 30 years old. The action was way too high and the intonation was off.. And another satisfied customer..
Today I fixed a classical guitar. On the tuners, one of the chain/ gear wheels was damaged and one of the teeth was broken of. So put on a new one from an old tuner I had saved from an old guitar...I had to make some adjustments so it would fit but it worked out great...
So that was another job in my repair carreer..