Talkin Headstock Repair

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Been dreaming of a 12 string acoustic for some time. No dough though!!
I ran across this one at the MF website. They called it "salvage", "only good for parts". Takamine EG 535. Salvage! Hey I can fix that! They had it listed for $180 so I called to see if I could get it for less. The guy I talked with said the only way he could lower it, is by a price match, ya OK!! So I went back online and put it in my cart and the price came up $140 with free shipping. Hey, good enough.


Pretty busted up, but the fretboard was intact as well as the truss rod.
So I got everything lined up and clamped down. The headstock is located using a couple of dowels in the tuner holes.

Cut away all the splintered stuff and made a block to epoxy in.

And I forgot to take pics of the shaving and smoothing steps.
So here it is. Had to do a blend in to opaque because the new mahogany block was no where close to the original neck wood.


I also added that "volute" thing to strengthen the joint between the headstock and the new wood. You can see that is a pretty steep angle, not much glue surface there. There are also 2 carbon fiber splines under that "volute"
And there we go. An excellent 12 stringer for not alot of dough!
Salvage indeed!