Severed Head!

[Mario Cardenas]

Hey Folks!

Any thoughts on this? I've repaired a break like this before without any reinforcement, but it was a repair on a nylon string guitar. I called my customer to check it's still glued. It is!

But recently, i've been reading some posts about end grain gluing and how weak this joints are. So, now i have some doubts. 

This guitar i'm supposed to glue is a steel string (a cheap one).

Have any of you done this kind of repair without splines or overlays with good results? Do you think it will hold on a steel string?

Thanks

[Kerry Krishna]

Nice headstock jig Mario! If this had been in my shop, I would have done the scooping out all the way to the first set of machine heads. But that is just me!

[Kerry Krishna]

 And those are some great shots too John!

[Mario Cardenas]

Thanks Kerry, it was a pain to build it. But totally worth it. Still needs some adjustments. Perhaps for version 2.0. 

I will make a backstrap just for sport (and a stronger repair)