Rescued Injured Orphan

WavMixer said:
Indeed I am gonna glue it back together for the experience. Perhaps I may put it on the other body that I'm robbing the neck from. I've been thinking about painting that LP body with some Rustolium Stone paint and make myself a "rock guitar"

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I used that paint on a 18” round table top I made for our RV. It has ALOT of texture. Nothing’s gonna fall off that table top.
 
Hackmaster said:
I would leave the break as is & just glue & clamp it, Ray. And I see no reason to doubt that it would go back together and be somewhat playable afterwards. My only concern would be the truss rod. The opening on that gap may very well be because of a bend in the truss rod.
I'd know more if I had it in my grubby little hands. If the gap closes squeezing it with your fingers, I'd say it's still reasonably straight.
If you have to clamp it to close the gap, I'd be betting that that rod is bent.
It looks like that truss rod is the only thing holding things together.
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But it should still be glueable. I would suggest using fish glue or hot hide glue, the latter with 5% acetic acid in order to make it longer usable at lower temperature. Reason: these glues do not need to be removed in case of some problem in the future. Titebond does and therefore might cause problems.

Furthermore i would take care not to glue the trussrod....

The reality is this is a $99 guitar new. How much of ones time is it really worth?
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The fun... and maybe the eyes of Wav's grandson if it plays again....
 
Yeah, I'm surprised at how well this thing plays! My grandson that found it already has a Strat that he never plays any more. Perhaps I'll keep this one around for visitors that want to play a guitar. Great keeper for giving lessons and not having to worry if they drop it or bang it into anything. We have 6 grand kids, 3 of which have shown an interest in playing guitar. This will be a great training guitar for them when they visit.
 
The first time I plugged it in and played it, i got a really nice squeely pinch harmonic that played into feedback ala 1970's classic rock tradition. The best part is that I didn't even plan to do that. Then I spent the rest of the practice session trying to reproduce it so I could put a video up here. No such luck :-(
 
WavMixer said:
The first time I plugged it in and played it, i got a really nice squeely pinch harmonic that played into feedback ala 1970's classic rock tradition. The best part is that I didn't even plan to do that. Then I spent the rest of the practice session trying to reproduce it so I could put a video up here. No such luck :-(
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I think you get better harmonics with a one pick up guitar. Here's Phil X explaining why one pick up guitars sound so good. I think he has a point.:wink:



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