#SLIGHT HEAD STOCK CRACK HOW TO#
Let’s talk about how to do this properly. Most of the guide-holes you will be required to drill when assembling a guitar are pilot-holes, for all of the various screw-mounted hardware things like tuners, string trees, strap buttons, control plates, output jacks, and pickup rings. Pilot-holes are drilled into the neck itself, to relieve pressure on the wood and keep it from splitting as the neck-screws bite into it The Pilot Program They allow the screws to pass through the body and pull the neck up against it as they are tightened. Because the purpose of the neck screws is to draw the neck and the body together, clearance-holes are drilled in the body. The neck joint of a “bolt-on” style electric guitar is a perfect example of both clearance-holes and pilot-holes. Without a pilot-hole, this pressure puts the wood at risk of splitting or cracking, usually along the grain lines. It relieves the pressure the screw will exert as it wedges itself into place. A pilot-hole is used when a screw will be driven into a single piece of wood. The second type of guide-hole is called a pilot-hole. Drilling a clearance hole into the first piece of wood allows the screw to draw the two materials together before it cinches tight. This happens because the screw tightens into the first piece of wood before it has tightened into the second. Trying to join two pieces of wood together without a clearance-hole in one of them usually results in a gap between them. A clearance-hole is drilled just large enough for the screw to pass through without biting into the wood. The first type is called a clearance-hole, and it is used when the purpose of the wood-screw is to draw two pieces of wood together. To begin with, there are two kinds of guide-holes. So let’s talk about guide-holes, see why they are so critical, and figure out how to drill them properly. One such step, often skipped by the impatient or the inexperienced, is properly drilling the guide-holes for all the wood-screws that must be used. As tempting as it can be to rush or cut corners, the most successful builds ultimately go to those with the patience to take all the necessary steps, no matter how tedious. I'm inclined to think I should get it and hope for the best, if the cracks get worse then I'll deal with the repairs, and probably still come out of it with a fair deal for a guitar I want.Building a well-crafted electric guitar or bass requires patience. I guess what I'm taking a long time to ask is: Are tiny cracks potentially in the wood emanating from the corner of the nut really worth passing this guitar over? The price seems like it won't be matched and I have wanted one of these for a while now. The cracks in question seem so small that I have a hard time figuring out how they would be repaired if that was something I even wanted to do.
#SLIGHT HEAD STOCK CRACK CRACK#
The moral of this story - I'm not particularly scared of a little crack in the neck, my Cort is doing just fine. I only bought it because the identical model guitar was stolen from me some years before - the store selling the guitar must have taken some sympathy on me and sold me the guitar for a great deal. I currently own a Cort guitar (70's/80's? neck-through, 2hb's) with a much more damaged neck that was repaired before I bought it.
#SLIGHT HEAD STOCK CRACK CRACKED#
There are pictures available for the world to see.Īpparently the guitar was taken to 2 different techs, 1 said it was superficial and just the finish that was cracked, the other said the the wood was indeed cracked (mahogany neck with rosewood fretboard, Gibson style tilt-back headstock btw). The seller is honest and upfront about the fact that there are cracks on each side of the nut (on the bass side it's tiny, longer on the treble side - maybe halfway way down the first fret?, both come directly from the corner of the nut). I'm watching a guitar on ebay, it's got a couple days left and it's currently about $125 when it's around a $500 guitar new (not including the upgraded Seymour Duncan pickup in the bridge position, adds around 50 bucks or so to the value).
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