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Repairs
That damage to your favorite guitar may not be terminal unless you have just emulated a Blackmore or Townsend guitar destruction! If you have you're on your own!
I picked a Strat up for a
song a while ago as it had been badly damaged, landing the "wrong way" after falling off a speaker stack. The
headstock was cracked, the neck bolts had been twisted by the impact and the finish on the body was damaged as well. I had a spare neck but due to the twisted neck bolts it was not a simple replacement. The boltholes in the neck were plugged and redrilled to allow for the misaligned holes in the body.
The natural finish was generally battered in the fall so I decided to repaint it as an Olympic White. I did not want a shiny new look,
neither did I want to go for the reliced look, I'm not a fan of that. The body
was stripped, rubbed down with progressively finer wet and dry paper to achieve
a perfectly smooth finish. Then several coats of white primer were applied,
rubbing down between coats as with the several topcoats. Once the paint had
dried I then gently rubbed it down with fine wire wool and rather than a
lacquer, several coats of polish were applied. This resulted in exactly the
finish I was looking for; the wire wool had left a myriad of tiny scratches,
just like years of cleaning with a cloth.
White Primer Top Coat Finished & Rebuilt
Obviously I cannot list prices for repair work as no two repairs are the same. Once the "dog sees the rabbit" I'll be able to give you an idea of the costs involved.
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