Gibson SG restoration (photo slideshow)

[EmperadorRestore]

I've just started working on an old SG copy in a similar state to this one, but I'm no professional and am trying to get people's advice on the best way to proceed.

I have a video on my channel going over the current state of the guitar, if you get a chance I'd love to hear your thoughts on it. :)

Great work on this one btw!

[mattallica464]

I think that is what my 74 custom damage looked like before it's repair

[gerritr1]

How can I get in touch with you to have mine repaired? Where are you located?

[gerritr1]

can you repair my 73 SG neck? and keep serial #,belonged to good friend who passed away,would like to keep as new.

[nsguitars]

@gerritr1 Yes, no problem !

[gerritr1]

can you repair my 73 SG neck?

[Glockenator]

@NickR1980 Yeah, for some reason I was thinking of the Gibsons of the '80s. Don't ask me why I got them mixed up with the '70s Gibsons. I agree that 1970s Gibsons are shit. I've seen a few particularly bad examples of some with serious problems

[Glockenator]

@NickR1980 Some of them. I think the Les Paul Customs of the 70s were some of the best ever built

[ht448]

You shoud add some Music

[skipstalforce]

hey that looks familiar!

[SkaterSTF]

this doesnt even looklike a real gibson sg

[sandman1201]

up to 1 minute its just horror

[acdcfreakNr1]

i have a gibson sg from 2010 and i was an ashole and accidentally ''smash'' it in a objekt and it came a mark that is almost .05 centimeter deep. PLEASE can you say how i can repair it!

[masteromega1]

@acdcfreakNr1 take an iron, a wet cloth and put the iron over the mark and the steam will rais the wood grain...u may have to touch up the paint around it cuz the wood may rise a bit above the...if this helps any

[speck444]

its to bad you didnt show how you glued it on but i guess you cant have everything

[colbystechreviews]

It looks like the guitar has been through a war, but that is definitely not a bad thing. It adds character. Great job :)

[Glockenator]

You guys saved a beautiful piece of Gibson's history

[1chgreg]

Great job!

I own one and I love the way it sounds. Those pickups are really great.

[rp94cobra]

You saved a beautiful piece of history THANK YOU

[explorerprotocall]

how much was it before restoration



[iiFiiNcHYx]

how does she play?

[danecook321]

I love a happy ending!

[jamespll]

who is the mother fuck was break this gibson?

[Glockenator]

@jamespll A dumb motherfucker, that's who. Some people have no respect for beautiful instruments

[Blompcube]

@Glockenator actually gibsons are notorious for having a fragile headstock, mostly les pauls, but SGs too - they attempted to fix it with the volute in the '70s which made it a bit tougher but still breakable from a particularly nasty fall (which can happen by accident) and would often break in a worse place (below the truss-rod adjustment bolt like this one) which would make it a bit harder to repair.

[EHXGUY]

0:01 OUCH!

[adidas331]

wish more detailed pics were posted

[drew7473]

i bought a 1965 sg 4 250.00 at a pawnshop same thing broken head stock,,,nice guitar man

[SkabCrowley]

FIX IT

[SoalHarvester03]

what kinda sick basturd doese that

[bluecrow00]

remember I almost shit brix when my epiphon les paul neck broke, must have been a realy shitty day for the dude

[telecasterbear]

mohogany is so soft and the necks are carved so thin, even the 3 piece ones snap off so easily. give me maple from now on.

[watchthepeacock]

I'm glad you did this instead of those faggots who smash it and say "it was broken anyway."

[superlou1s]

dang that guitar looked 200 years old :O

I have seen civil war relics in museums that looked newer than that wrecked guitar :P

[m0sesm01]

what is that like burnt?

[62rome]

remarkable! brought back from the dead,thank you jesus and may he bless all guitars.

[FahQposeurfag]

it's painful to watch the beginning when the headstock is broken.lol turns my stomach upside down.

[jimbo45699999]

epic i recently dropped my les paul and the neck came off like that im sending it to a luthier to get a new headstock and shit made, it also depends on what part of the guitar you drop it on to wether it breaks the neck like that, but it is plausable it could brake, also i dont know any idiot who would purposly throw a gibson on the floor anyway, sorry for bad spelling.

[cobraman115]

didn't the 73s have an ebony fingerboard...not rosewood?

[EpicWoIf]

who would do that to a sg?

[XB0XFR34K]

maybe its called an "accident"

[EpicWoIf]

nobody accidently does that to a guitar

[XB0XFR34K]

ok so if they didnt accidently drop the guitar than what do you think they did to it

purposely slam a 36 yr old sg on the ground because it wasnt a les paul?

[EpicWoIf]

if you accidently drop a gibson the headstock wouldn't break like that. You don't "accidently" break a bigsby. They'd have to have thrown it off of a balcony to do that kind of damage.

[XB0XFR34K]

i know what ur pointing out but gibsons are known for headstocks being broken easily because the headstocks are angled in a wierd position

[EpicWoIf]

either way you'd still have to put alot of force into breaking that. I have a sg older than this one and it's not gonna break unless you purposely break it.

[XB0XFR34K]

true true

[Danthemagicman22]

Go get a room you two

[XB0XFR34K]

already got one

jk

[S34n4s4ur]

i have a sg and wanted to put a bigsby i just wanted to see what one looked like, thanks!

[rusiotalife]

good music

[Tonyp68]

A+. You're a genuine craftsman, beautiful

[ledzepacbasslyn423]

its so beautiful and real and the headstock repair is like it was never even broken great job!

[nsguitars]

You are right.

It's a 73 guitar. We made a mistake in dating the guitar.

Thanks for the tip.

NS Guitar Workshop

[AlexSlams]

Definately not a '63.