Here's one reason why sons shouldn't play their father's guitars..... (Page 1 of 2)

Well, look on the bright side!!! There's home owner's insurance. Make claim, and upgrade to a Gibson Les Paul!
I MUST admit, when I was 13 - I broke the neck on my brother's Dean strat. As if anyone needs an excuse to get another guitar, there's not better one than a broken guitar.

How'd it happen? Let me guess, you had it in a guitar stand - and when he put it back it eventually fell out. It fell onto a hard floor and that's what snapped the neck? (been there) I use the guitar hanging stands from now on.

-Nic

- Nic from Detroit... posting on JB's Forum since 6-2-2006
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Actually Nic,

It's a little worse than falling out of a stand. I had a locking strap on it for quite a while however, I had a really nice Taylor made non-locking black strap that I recently placed on the guitar. My son Ben has two guitars of his own; a PRS and a Squire Strat. Because he's 12 years old and you know, boys will be boys, I told him to just play his own guitars until he was a little older. Well, he's been talking about a Les Paul and apparently thought it was OK yesterday to try mine out. I guess the strap let go and being that it's a fairly heavy guitar, it went crashing to the floor. My understanding is that he was pretty upset to the point of shaking. When I got home, Dawn prepared me for the worst. Gosh, I thought someone was really sick, so I told her to just tell me what it was. She had put the guitar downstairs so I didn't see it when I came in.

I guess I handled it pretty well; no yelling. I'm a little disappointed in Ben, but maybe we can use this as a bit of a learning lesson. His weekly allowance will be used towards the repair of the guitar. He's also grounded for three days. Oh well, like I said, boys will be boys.......

Roy

Think how bad everyone would feel if it were,,oh, say a new Pearly Gates Murphy aged Les Paul??? Just thought I'd throw a different perspective in there for a sec...:/

CT.

Good point, neither of my children were home at the time and I thought something happened to one of them. I was relieved to find out that it was just a guitar that had it's neck/head broken.

Gosh, I sure hope Ben wasn't trying to emulate Pete Townshend, THAT could get expensive!

Hmmmm, I wonder if Joe B. has an old Les Paul laying around that he would want to give me?

Roy

Roy.... Wow! If anything good comes of this it will be that your son won't touch any of your stuff for a long, long time!

Lemme see now, how many car washes and lawn mowings until he pays for it?

Ouch!!
Looks like a clean break at the right angle though and shouldn't be difficult to repair.
Hopefully he'll think really hard before he gets too curious next time.

I'm sorry bro, that sucks bigtime.  I have to admit I let out a sigh of relieve when I saw that it said "Epiphone" on the headstock because that's about a $3k difference in guitars.  Not bashing Epi as they make some great stuff too just saying as an investment if it were a $3500 Silverburst Custom Shop LP I would have had a friggin heartattack.  Good luck with the repairs.  If it makes you feel better Gibson style neck joints are VERY weak and you are not the first person to have this happen to.  A lot of repairmen say that after the glue takes hold the neck joint is actually STRONGER so investment aside it should be very playable and strong after repairs.

wood glue is stronger than cement, and wood for that matter. Once that stuff sets - its not going to break again!

- Nic from Detroit... posting on JB's Forum since 6-2-2006
Ask me about my handwound Great Lakes Guitar Pickups
Since 2010, Bonamassa fans have taken advantage of my JB friend discount = my cost + shipping.