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Messages Wondering if anyone can offer some advice. I recently bought a Les Paul my first - I'm usually a Fender guy from a retailer based in a different city and had it shipped to me. It was sent in its Gibson hard shell case no additional packing inside this case , packed in a Gibson cardboard box with extra babble wrap, then this was placed in a larger cardboard box with no additional packaging around the Gibson box.
When I opened it, the head stock had snapped, much to my dismay! I've read up a lot about the angled neck being a weak point on Gibsons and that headstock breaks are not particularly rare doing a google image search of broken headstocks shows plenty of Gibbo's!
It seems that the shipping company had been too rough and the protection not enough in this instance It's worth saying in closing, Gibson headstocks don't just spontaneously combust - they sometimes break when dropped or knocked over. A headstock break on a Gibson is more common than other big names but still, the majority of them don't break. Look after them - get straplocks, use a stand rather than propping them against an amp, basic commonsense stuff - and a Gibson is more than capable of standing up to many years professional use.
E5RSY likes this. Posts: 2, I've got a headstock break story. I packed my newly purchased '62 ESt in the trunk with it's airport quality case. I arrive at the dorms nice and early so I can get an evening of last minute practice before my audition.
I unpack, get settled in, and in the late afternoon grab a bit of vending machine coffee before my practice session. Open up the case I never hit any big bumps on the way down, was delicate carrying the case, and can't recall hearing the snap. Walk into the audition the next day "um, sir, I don't have a guitar.
Then the next weekend drove 12 hours round trip to get my Les Paul Studio. To my stepdad's credit he was a carpenter he did a heck of a job fixing that headstock at some point in the semester too. The Les Paul is still in tact, haha. Age: 57 Posts: I've been playing Les Paul's and SGs since the 70s. The one rule I've followed is to never put the guitar on a stand, always back in the case. I hate strap locks but have switched to PRS strap lugs and they seem secure.
I've never had a break but I've seen them happen, if you drop it, if the stand is knocked over, it's done. You must log in or sign up to reply here. With the grain running along the neck length, you have a very strong piece of wood. It'll resist bending and breaking nicely. However, where the headstock angles, this strength becomes a weakness. The 'shorter' section of grain here is much more susceptible to splitting or breaking apart. Cutting a truss rod access cavity further weakens an already weak area.
Then, after making a neck with a natural fault line at its weakest point, Gibson then cuts a hunk of wood from the front of that weak area to accommodate a truss rod wrench.
The truss rod access further weakens this area. You could think of an angled headstock as almost a design flaw. No one idea is the answer but there are ways to make the snapping, at least a little, less likely. The easiest way to help things is to add some wood at that weakest point. A volute is just a protrusion on the rear of the neck-headstock join. Adding a volute gives some extra strength to the angled headstock. At different points in its history, Gibson has added volutes to their guitars.
And then taken them away again. Not a bad thing. A more certain solution is to forget about making a one-piece neck which is actually incredibly wasteful anyway. Jointing and glueing a headstock on to the end of a neck makes for a considerably stronger neck. Making an angled headstock by glueing a piece on makes for a stronger neck. By cutting a piece from the end of a neck blank, flipping it and glueing it back on at an angle as shown above we can actually make that grain direction thing work for us rather than against us.
Jointing a headstock on can be accomplished in a number of different ways but the theory is pretty much the same as illustrated. Media New media New comments Search media. Resources Latest reviews Search resources. Members Current visitors New profile posts Search profile posts. New Merchandise! Log in Register. Search titles only.
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You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. Preventing the infamous headstock break. Thread starter Wire and wood Start date Dec 25, Wire and wood New member. Joined Nov 9, Messages I've seen and heard of so many Les Pauls with cracked or broken headstocks that I was wondering just how delicate they really are?
What I mean is, does this damage occur from just regular hanging on wall peg or are these guitars which are getting abused?
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