How Much Is A Gibson Neck Repair

Captain Jack

Specifically, I am trying to go an thought how much a headstock repair decreases the value of a guitar. I am looking at a couple of used regular standards (i.e. non custom shop) and not "vintage" which have had professional headstock repairs. Any assist would exist greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

Allen Collins

I would expect to pay less than half the value for a damaged guitar than if undamaged.
I would also assume that I would so be stuck with it forever. Unless you are looking at playing around with it, changing pickups etc. on a regular ground and using it as a test bed so to speak, personally I would non entertain one.

This is purely from a fiscal point of view, every bit I would trust a pro repair job.:2zone

thefishingline

mote than half at least...myself though?...I would never touch one no affair the price

Dire Wolf

I would treat a headstock repair like a refin: i/ii off(MINIMUM) an otherwise structurally sound guitar. I would never feel comfortable with a repaired headstock, even so. I would laissez passer on it and try and find a guitar with as few issues as possible.

shuie

One of the best guitars I've always played in my life has an ugly headstock repair and price the owner ~$600. Id probably sell every guitar I own for this item guitar, only the electric current possessor will never let it get at any price.

treeofpain

So are you guys saying the market toll for a $1500 LP Standard with a professional hs repair is $750? I disagree.

If it has been pro redone, I remember the value is higher. It is hard to limited equally a percentage of the value because I think it is different with each guitar.

I have a black LP Custom with a hs repair. You can't run across information technology unless yous wait very closely, and you tin can't feel information technology at all. I think the divergence would be less in this case versus, say, a guitar with a translucent finish where the repair is more than obvious.

Besides, with the lower priced LP'due south like the BFG, a well done hs repair probably won't cut the value in half, since the market place price of a used one is already pretty depression.

2591

My 69 GT has a PRO head stock repair (amoungst other things)
Still sounds and play'due south great, with no tuning problems
Toll me allot less than one in good condition
Hard to quantify the discount because information technology is also routed for humbuckers and has the GT finish stripped

Danny

So are you guys saying the market price for a $1500 LP Standard with a professional person hs repair is $750? I disagree.
If it has been pro redone, I remember the value is higher. Information technology is hard to express equally a percentage of the value because I think information technology is unlike with each guitar.

I accept a black LP Custom with a hs repair. You tin can't run across it unless y'all look very closely, and you tin can't feel it at all. I recall the difference would exist less in this example versus, say, a guitar with a translucent finish where the repair is more obvious.

Besides, with the lower priced LP's similar the BFG, a well done hs repair probably won't cutting the value in half, since the market price of a used i is already pretty depression.

Standards aren't 1500 anymore, endeavor 2300. And then you're looking at 1150.

DanD

I would treat a headstock repair like a refin: i/2 off(MINIMUM) an otherwise structurally audio guitar. I would never feel comfortable with a repaired headstock, nevertheless. I would pass on it and endeavor and discover a guitar with as few issues as possible.

+1 On the headstock repair aspect. I recently, within a twelvemonth and a one-half, sold a Trans Purple 1991 Archetype Plus through ebay which had a headstock repair. The repair was stable but visible due to the Trans finish on the neck. At the time the few Trans Purple Classics that were sold were selling for between 1200 for a actor to 1500 or and then for a dainty clean case. None of the local shops even considered information technology for a trade, if that tells you anything...

Mine sold for 658 on a ten day sale with all the original paperwork including receipts and the OHSC. A piffling more than one-half of the low end at the fourth dimension. The listing had a ton of articulate pics and the guitar was in otherwise very good condition with no buckle clothing, glossy finish and but a couple minor stop chips.

As far equally playing goes, information technology was a proficient actor. But the neck was on the thin side, even for a Classic, and not as much to my liking as the Standard 50s or R0 carve. For the price of a complete neck replacement to a more than comfortable carve (as well a devaluing prospect) and the sale price I was able to buy my R7. Just my 2 cents...

nmcinc

http://world wide web.laysguitar.com/projectguitar.asp

what if is done this well?

AtomEve

Case past instance basis........... there is no magic formula..... :salude

Bryan

Marshall Man

I have a 89 LP STD that one of my kids knocked of the stand up dorsum in 98 and put a split virtually the base of operations of the headstock. I had the neck repaired and never had an issue with the guitar since. Headstock repair may take some money off merely it isn't the end of the earth if the guitar was good in the first place.

Mbisch

Sign me up for a $750 repaired Std. I have cash...

77CUSTOM

I only bought a studio lite for $610 shipped off of the bay. Looks like crap, plays great. I'm going to check the repair after I sand it down then refinish it. I've seen many les pauls with headstock repair (none of them mine) but, they all were very stable. I even repaired a couple of them and they are even so holding. The value may go downward just it doesn't hurt the tone.

led zep fan

I bought a headstock repaired LP a few years ago. The "professionally repaired" headstock snapped two times. After fixing information technology a tertiary fourth dimension, I unloaded it "as is" for $750. NEVER Once more!!!!

Allen Collins

:hmm I think this recently sold detail 170104882241 past a dealer on ebay sums it upward.

Don,t fancy ownership this other ane though :fc
:wow

ampdan

Gary Rossington'south original standard has a headstock repair, and then does the Peter Green guitar.:hmm

Hetfieldinn

http://www.laysguitar.com/projectguitar.asp
what if is done this well?

Dan must have sent that i out to be repaired. He worked on i of my Les Pauls. Only one. Never again.

J.D.

All else equal, a pro headstock repair *more often than not* does not quite knock 50% off, more like xxx-35%, at least from what I have seen over the years. I've played some nifty sounding guitars with glued headstock cracks, didn't seem to affect the tone or playing, and most will say the joint is stronger than the parent woods if done properly.

Earlier anyone goes off on me, ask yourself this. Let'southward say yous are looking at a brand new Historic at GC for $4000. Let's say, hypothetically, the exact same guitar, aforementioned weight and figure, etc. is hanging side by side to it, only this i was knocked off a stand the very first time it was held. It was a "make clean" pause and repaired professionally by Gibson authorized warranty repair, so make clean it'southward near not detectable. How much is it worth? I'd easily pay more than $2k for it.

Werloc

I wouldn't fifty-fifty consider a headstock repaired guitar, Period.

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Danny

Les Paul Forum Fellow member, Formerly Musicinmysoul

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