[The_Silver_Surfer]

Hello!

I have had big problem - as you can read from here:

http://www.jemsite.com/forums/f31/wtb-777dy-neck-122781.html

After asking for repairing it from few places here in Finland the luthiers were too afraid to fix it so I had to do it myself:

There is a starting point:

http://imageshack.us/a/img831/8230/01nicebutbroken.jpg
http://imageshack.us/a/img703/9315/02behind.jpg

From these pics you can see better how bad the crack is (with truss rod bolt on):

http://imageshack.us/a/img835/5278/03scratch.jpg

Before you can really (but gently) twist the neck crack open you have to remove truss rod bolt:

http://imageshack.us/a/img253/3562/05thussrodremoval.jpg
http://imageshack.us/a/img818/2904/03scratch02.jpg

Now you can see the big picture:

http://imageshack.us/a/img842/5303/06nowyoucantwist.jpg

Here I show the method how to put the epoxy to go in - after glueing just sweep inside the crack
with some plastic part to fill the cracked hole properly with glue:

http://imageshack.us/a/img840/4831/08methodtohavethegluego.jpg
http://imageshack.us/a/img594/3984/09myglue.jpg

In this photo I press (gently, gently) with the nearest presser the crack more open for glueing with epoxy and
just in case I covered neck with painters tape:
http://imageshack.us/a/img40/4316/10gentlypressingthehole.jpg

Here the crack is showing its whole beauty when I'm pressing it more open:
http://imageshack.us/a/img846/9030/11holeandotherneckiscov.jpg

Now its glued properly - it's important that you have the nut holes filled with paper or
something during glueing - and when you press the neck back together remember to take paper stuff out and keep holes clean from glue that presses out:

http://imageshack.us/a/img21/8117/12gluedremembertofillnu.jpg

Ok here I press the headstock back together. First one of the pressers keeps the wood-stick tight against the table so headstock can lean against it during the pressing. The last press keeps the neck in place and the middle one presses headstock back to its original postition. No we have a nice 24h dry-time.

After 24h hours and after a little sanding with 240 paper headstock looks like this:

I can't feel the glued joint with my wedding-finger:

http://imageshack.us/a/img89/3149/14after24hoursandlittle.jpg

After putting my JEM 777DY/77FP back together it looks pretty good and here
the neck is back in its full tension with strings attached:

And oh - JEMs small brotha 77VBK wanted also in picture:

Hopefully this will help you in cases like mine.

Silver_Surfer

 

[sebastian]

Brought back from the dead!

Good job man!

 

[Verus]

Great job, probably as good or better than paying someone else!

 

[andrewgosline]

Nice pictorial. I also applaud the use of epoxy. Wood glue is good stuff, but for an application like this, I think I would trust expoxy more. Thanks for posting. It would be great if you could get the [\img] tags to work on that post so that each photo isn't a link that we have to click on.

again thanks!

 

[The_Silver_Surfer]

Thank you all for complements.

 

[nickcoumbe]

Text book repair. Looks awesome!

 

[Mbaldwin]

Excellent job.

 

[The_Silver_Surfer]

... this story has a really happy ending:

I can't hardly see where the headstock is repaired.
and on the left side in picture you can see my new Jackson project:

Mr. Vai said (when I pointed his EVO's awful large and legendary neckjoint crack) that it has also had genuine epoxy treatment with injection needles and the guitar is not going to be broken at least in that place never again. Hopefully anywhere else either.

 

[maqify]

Good job there. And i guess a proper fixed neck will be as strong as a new one.

 

[t1mman]

If you'd want, you could sand it a little and use Tung oil and you won't see a scratch!

But I highly doubt you'd risk damaging the signature!