How bad did my brother break my guitar and is it repairable?

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Well that turned out nicely:)

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Some Figured, Old Growth Redwood Soundboards Fresh off the Planer. So Silky...

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Here's my easy access acoustic neck joint.

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Coming soon!

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I’ve been hanging onto a few slabs of walnut trying to decide what to make. A one piece tele body it shall be

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Love making things unnecessarily complex

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Purple Heart is annoyingly hard

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Complete. I’m really proud of this.

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First time i use melamine lacquer. No need if a spray boot, can sand in 5 minutes and buff to a mirror finish in just a week. I love it.

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It’s not a guitar but this cabinet commission came out alright

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I was gifted a woodburning pen, and decided to make this kit guitar body my first project. Certainly not perfect, but check it out!

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Where's my Aquanet?

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r/Luthier be like: First build! Tons of mistakes. Please be nice I'm new and only have a hammer and hand saw.

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Took some advice here and repaired this chipping on my acoustics soundhole

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White Meteora Build Complete

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Built this fret bender using a 3D printer. I made it so it bends the wire at exactly 16 every time.

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Couldn’t have done it without all your help!

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I made a fretless tele out of a Macintosh.

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Just thought I’d share the abysmal nut slots/spacing on this new Vintera Bass VI

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Ash necks! Do you prefer light, medium, or dark roast?

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Inlayed end-graft

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I'm making an acoustic Flying V out of scrap parts (I'm only 14 btw).

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Second kit build, much more work than the first.

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She’s ready

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Why?

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Finished up yet another animal.

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This Mirus model finished up headed to Japan!

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Nothing like a fresh fret job

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A baroque mandolin I've recently completed

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My first build. All from scratch, at a guitar making school.

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My first build, I dub it 'The Oreocaster'

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I’ve got a bunch of this bowling alley wood, and I’m looking for someone to make me a Tele with it.

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Is there a better way to ground the strings than this?

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Ouch

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Personally recording a guitar I've built - Padauk and Spruce

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I'm no luthier but I built a fretwire telecaster to match my 50 year old Honda.

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Update: dry fit. Ash body, koa pickgaurd, ebony neck and cocobolo fretboard.

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What a $1200 refret looks like

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A few weeks ago this was a coffee table.

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Pickguards again - A or B?

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How much should I expect to spend to have a luthier make me a body replica of an obscure guitar like this? How much do most of you charge for just custom bodies?

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You know what fuck it. Dora the explorer.

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a drop or two of lemon oil should fix this dont ya think?

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Staining done, time for patience to not screw up the finish.

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Found a rare block of Mountain Mahogany wood that was almost as dark as a blackwood to make these Vuillaume-style pegs for a c. 1801 Giuseppe Guadagnini violin

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Bought all these parts for £10

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My latest build.

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My most recent build all finished up.

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Update Indian Tele

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Almost done! Finishing up the neck right now

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A productive weekend in isolation

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Sold my first one ❤️

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The neck pocket has been chiseled out, and officially been attached!!!

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I just finished up my second instrument build, a lefty semi-hollow for my daughter

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Magnetic thumbpicks

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Just finished up this Chelsea Hotelecaster. Man is she killer.

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Just finished my first ever build. A hollow-body tele, hand wound custom pickups, laser etched. I'm beyond stoked with his it turned out!

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My second build. Finished just in time for my father in law's 60th birthday

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Did my first mother of pearl inlay!

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Removing fretboards is a pain

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P R I S M A T I C

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I didn't post in a long time, been busy. I'd like to share with you guys the next order I have. Top is made out of cocobolo and poplar blur, swamp ash body with laminated black maple layer between top and body. What's your thoughts about it ?

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Wish me luck...

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Just finished my first creation! The wood is from an old swiss barn, pickguard and controlplate are custom made by my brother. What do you guys think?

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To everyone who posts “My first build” pics on here and the guitar looks like it came straight from the Fender Custom shop...

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First attempt at making a guitar! Not perfect, but i’m proud!

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Multi-piece raven inlay! Very proud of this one

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Just finished a new cornerless violin modeled after the shape of Antonio Stradivarius' 1726 Chanot-Chardon and the sound chamber of his 1704 Betts violins. Would love to hear what you all think!

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A lot more work to be done, but I'm proud so far

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Getting my feet wet.

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My low-tech hand-cranked pickup winder

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First Build

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Check out this really cool spalted maple Tele body, made from one solid slab of reclaimed spalted maple!

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Learning

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After months of supplier delays, I'm finally finishing up my first run of artist signature guitars!

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GLITTER!

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Had to stop sanding this top for a minute and take advantage of the sunlight yesterday

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New build getting shiny.

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I made a guitar out of an old piece of Burl Wood Coffee Table.

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Built a pine 58 Flying V

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First truly mixed-media inlay attempt, still some work to do.

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Here’s something different

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End result of a Stainless steel refret😋

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Suggested to post here - a Strat body I redesigned using pyrography for a new finish

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Pair of Meteoras, Orange is the newest build.

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Does it matter that the frets don’t go right to the edge? Is this good fretwork?

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Can I use superglue to put the chips back?

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Transparent White Burst

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B U R L Y

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Recapping this 1976 Gibson RD Artist is scary AF.

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Another angle of Bolivian Rosewood Action!

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Finally finished my headstock inlay!

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I can’t believe how good the paint job turned out 😍

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First time poster - my latest build

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thoughts on this, it'd be my first partscaster

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Still in progress with first guitar build. Gibson es335 with a through neck.

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Something came in the mail today...

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First guitar I've made myself 😊 Some mistakes, but overall pretty happy 😊

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MOAR CRACKLE!

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What do you think about my latest built? Roger Ricks Nr. 6

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Yay or Nay for the Gremlicaster?

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Take pride in your wiring

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Finally finished up building this Junior, super edit video link in comments

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Have you ever got to this point and then you realized Oh, shoot! I have made a left handed guitar. I can't believe I put the templates the wrong way around.

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So I was widening the holes on my LP for grovers and this happened. What can I do?

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Final Polish is done

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my first post,my first build.

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🌸Japanese Barbie🌸

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Here it is! #36 in all its buckeye burl, bubinga, and wenge goodness

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Still have to set intonation but I am loving how this turned out.

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2001 Jim:. not a fan of Dave's wiring 😂

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I really put my best efforts into my first neck carve and holy shit I’ve never felt such a comfortable neck (in my opinion) in my life. It’s perfect for my hands. I love the headstock transition (still debating if I should make the transition smooth because I really like the little lip it has.

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Jimi Page wiring

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Antler nuts?

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Sneak peek of what’s to come

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My First Build - Jazzmaster Thinline

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Anyone else use bone for fretboard inlays?

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Can’t wait to put this on my next kit build...

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Saw this on eBay. Said it was “pretty much a P bass copy” $85

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Purple haze all in my eyes

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Black Walnut one-piece neck in progress

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Customer states that the electronics in their Taylor isn't working. This is the battery they were using. 😂😂

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She ain't perfect but she's mine (1st build)

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Dots to clouds.

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Finally got around to designing a pickguard. I think I like it?

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Any fans of a nice satin?

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Making my own go-bar clamp setup

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This ziricote is one of the coolest looking fretboard woods I’ve used. Really digging it

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Leftover Material turned into String case

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Trying for tiger eye, best I could get.

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chugga chugga chugga chugga Choo Choo. done.

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Neck through chambered guitar in progress

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Got the soundhole bound, what do you think?

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Ass shot. Sometimes you just gotta let the timber do the talkin'.

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Keepin it classy on this one

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First time binding an f-hole.

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I'm dyeing to finish the burst...

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This is the last one I’ll post. I don’t want to be obnoxious but, you all seemed to enjoy the last 2. This is what I really got into building for. Rocknroll Archtops!

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This finish

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Fix decal?

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Need a little pick

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I see a lot of beautiful “first build ever” posts on here. If anyone finds those discouraging... Here was my first ever!

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First build, would love some feedback

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I can't build a guitar but I can build a heck of a luthier saw

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My Kintsugi guitar is nearly finished. Really happy with the finish! Video coming soon

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Finishing off the tail end.

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Just finished up this ocean guitar for son. So fun to create this for him

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Morning procrastination project: scrap wood bulk string storage object. How do y’all store your strings?

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It was my first time using a maple top. Is there a recommended method to fill that gap?

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