Repairs to Emulate

[Robbie Collins]

Here's a video of 50 top notch repairs:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_uG6BrFjGo&index=3&list=PLw...

[Frank Ford]

Item number 3 in the video is a Gibson K-2 mandocello, a "before" shot of a restoration I did and featured on FRETS.COM:

http://www.frets.com/FretsPages/Blogs/K2Collapse/k2collapse.html

[Hesh Breakstone]

Wow that's enough to give one acid reflex...... ;)

[Mike Kolb]

Yup, that's quite the rogue's gallery of "how not to repair guitars"!  Good find. 

[steven gallagher]

Nothing says quality like jamming 5 screws into the joint and slathering it over with glue.  :-)

[Ned Knepp]

For a second there, I thought that one of those shots of a head fix with a lot of screws was on my first guitar. It was a bit of a shock. Oh well, now I know better. 

So, Frank, did anyone ask you if it was OK to use your picture in their video? 

[Frank Ford]

I figure some do ask permission to use photos from my site, but those are "the few."  

Otherwise, what gets posted anywhere gets plastered everywhere, I reckon. . .

[Ned Knepp]

I suppose it's the price of doing business on the internet. There's a pretty good chance that he found it by running a google search anyway. It's just too bad that he didn't give your site a chance to show how not to do a fix THEN how to do it properly. As it is, a lot of people won't have any idea that the mando in question is back in service and in good shape.

[charley erck]

I'll pipe up here. Yes the pictures are of pretty shocking things done to guitars, but as they went by quickly,
I noticed , particularly in the broken head section, occasionally a picture where the owner probably considered
that it was either patch it together or throw it away, and probably enjoyed playing it like that for some time!
And , yes, Hesh , the sound track musicians could easily have been on acid.