Glue for Dan Armstrong Plexiglass body

[Eric Steven Johansen]

Got this guitar from a friend who had loaned it to another guy, who used it to whack his wife over the head, which got him a one way ticket to prison. Anyhow he left it with a crack by the neck pocket that goes through the body. I'm wondering if anyone has ever glued a crack like this before and what kind of glue you used.

[Russell Vance]

Plastic supply companies and fibreglass/resin suppliers will hook you up with a waterthin plexiglass glue that will wick in by capilliary action and shut it up tight as a drum (providing there are no voids or gaps in the break). Do not use plastic binding or airplane adhesive adhesive as it will attack the resin. That's all I know. Rusty.

[Eric Steven Johansen]

Luckily no missing pieces on this one so that plexi glue should work. Thanks for the info.

[Antonio Cotichini]

And which kind of glue do they used, in the hospital, to repair the wife's head?

[Eric Steven Johansen]

I'm not sure whether the were successful in that repair. As you know DA's are very heavy.

[Ned Knepp]

2-octyl cyanoacrylate - medical grade super glue.

Somebody figured out that anything that can stick your fingers together so quickly and so thoroughly just might be good for sticking skin together when you actually want it to stick together. Now, it not just a plastic plate in your head, it plastic glue to close the wound.

Ned

[Antonio Cotichini]

In the last issue of "The fretboard journal" (which every issue I find to be a very very nice book, more than a magazine) there's a funny article of forensic lutherie. A couple of exhibits in which an acoustic guitar (sadly both were nice Martins) had been shot by gun and destroyed by kicking with heels, by (what else?) jealous girlfriend or wife. If you can grab a copy go to the final page and laugh and cry. And this gives to guitar players a moral lesson: If you're married or engaged with a girl who's jealous, wears high heels and possesses a gun, DON'T play an old acoustic Martin, play a Dan Armstrong Plexiglass Body and play it well (and first!).
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