Guitar with Crack

[Zorg]

Anyone out there do guitar repair and can evaluate my guitars crack before I take it in for repair. It is all the way through. Can spreading some epoxy on the inside fix/stop the crack and not destroy the sound?

 

Thanks

[Zorg]

I don't know. I just bought it off the net and they said it was cracked but didn't know either. I don't see any sigh of force like a dent . It looks more like wood dried out or something.

[damianip]

Looks like a humidity crack. Can you hear the crack? I mean does it buzz or rattle? If not, leave it alone. Don't spread glue on it. Usually these things are patched from the back.

 

If you can't hear it, leave it alone. If you can, go see a trustworthy reapir person or a luthier.

 

paolo

[I tele u]

A good repairman can fix that easy.It will need cleated and refinished in that area.It should'nt hurt the sound cause its in the side..

[guitarcapo]

What I would do to repair that crack is to line it up perfectly so that both sides are level and the crack joins/ disappears. I would then apply a spool clamp or two to hold it that way. The what you do is get the thinnest cyanoacrylate glue you can find. Hobby stores that deal in model airplanes have the stuff. It comes out of a little pipette made of silicone on the end. Anyway you reach INSIDE the guitar and squirt the stuff in one end of the crack and it wicks up through the crack. If you can't work inside the guitar you can do it from the front but you have to be very careful and perfect to just get the glue in the crack and not on the finish. I've found cleats unnecessary for these types of cracks. If it ever cracks again it won't be there. The glue seam is stronger than the wood itself.

 

Epoxy would be a second choice but it doesn't wick up like that.. If you've ever seen it it's amazing. The glue goes everywhere it's supposed to go and no place else.