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Hallelujah I got the SG back
<p>A number of site members (both here and at the old mixposure) have asked me about the white Gibson SG that appears in some of my photos. Each time it has been raised I have felt a trickle of tears run down my cheek.</p>
<p>I bought the guitar in 1973. In about 1975 after a particularly good gig, our bass player, who had drunk more than usual that night, tripped over the guitar causing it to crash to the ground and snapping it at the nut. The first attempted repair was a disaster. I think the guy just stuck it back on with Perkins Paste and it only lasted about a fortnight. Then I found a really good luthier who did a great repair job. It lasted from 1975 till a few years ago. Unfortunately the old case had disintegrated and the replacement I got for it was a bit tight. That wasn't normally a problem because being lazy I rarely put it into its case. But just before going on holidays some years ago I decided to put it in the case and when I came back from holidays it had snapped again.</p>
<p>I took it to a guitar shop and they sent it out to a luthier for repair. I needed to have a replacement and being unable to justify the purchase of another Gibson I got a good deal on a PRS which has served me well. After some months the luthier got back to me with a quote which seemed reasonable and I asked him to go ahead. Heard nothing. Had lost his number and couldn't remember his name.</p>
<p>As luck would have it I was looking for someone to give my acoustic a bit of a service and googled luthiers in Sydney. I saw a name that jogged my memory, and sure enough it was the guy who was repairing the Gibson. I emailed him and he rang to say he'd finished it years ago and it had been sitting in his workshop. He'd lost my contact details too.</p>
<p>So today I went and picked it up. He seems to have done a great job on it. It appears seemingly undetectable to my "failing eyes". Anyway, nice to have it home.</p>
<p>Cheers</p>
<p>Brian</p>
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This is fabulous news.. Brian!!! I have a long list of guitars that I have parted with over the years that i wish i could get back. One of them is a 02 worn brown Gibson SG. I dont know what it was about that guitar but it was a sweet piece indeed.
I took up the art of luthiere and guitar repair because I got tired of having my guitars fixed and never bieng happy with the results. I hope this repair holds for you.. if not.. you pay the shipping to Canada.. and i will fix it for free.
Good news.. now lets hear that sweet guitar make music in your hands
Wow what a great story Brian. I bet it felt good to hold her again!!
Congrats!
guy
Brian, great story and great retrieve. Do I hear a song in that for you? Lol!
The white SG is a beauty. I had a walnut finished one that is long gone now. A friend of mine had the same thing happen to his SG. I think the angle of the dangle with the Gibson headstocks isn't forgiving of falls directly on the headstock end. It puts the pressure right on the weak spot at the nut area and it only takes once.
Glad you got it back and repaired!
Farrell
ah yes.. SGs.. I've had a few too.. the first about the same year as you.. when I was still young.. must have been very young in fact cause all i remember now is my parents were gone for the weekend and i had a bunch of friends over to party and jam.. under the influence of several substances but mostly booze I must have wanted to show off (it was a pretty tough town I grew up in man) so I took a buthcer knife and stabbed my burgundy-red beautiful classic SG to death! it did achieve i guess the desired effect because I can still see my buddies standing there with mouths hanging open in disbelief but end result is of course that I've asked myself ever since how i could have been so stupid?.. well i was just a kid.. my dad didn't like what i did i remember that too.. lol..don't even know any more what became of that guitar - wait.. yes i do.. I sold it to the younger borther of a drumer i played with.. he thought it was cool so he must have been really young.. that wasn't something that could be fixed.. stab wounds all over the top.. so you are a lucky man brian to get your lovely axe back.. congratulations and cheers.. now if we could only play them.. lol..