PSA - The Repair Shop tonight - Epi SG neck repair

mort · September 2023

Could be interesting…..

rlw · September 2023

Why bother?

Could it be the Flame Guitars chap again - David Kennett?

tony99 · September 2023

Beats the usual sewing an arm back on to someone's tatty old cock-eyed teddy bear I suppose. I'll have a looksy

Bennyboy-UK · September 2023

Looking forward to the crying with happiness of the punters…after the expected heart warming story.

flying_pie · September 2023

Hopefully they'll see sense, just bin the Epi then give him a Gibson. No doubt Joe Bonamassa could turn up in person and hand one to him so they can get a magic moment for the telly

Vintage-T · September 2023

If it's Julyan, that's my guitar tech. Absolute gent and wonderful Luthier.

Winny_Pooh · September 2023

If you want a proper repair channel check this out.

Relaxing viewing at it's no BS best

normula1 · September 2023

I love the Woodford Instruments channel. It's quite addictive.

crunchman · September 2023

@Winny_Pooh is correct.

If you want a neck repair, this one's a bit of a classic:

Jonathangus · September 2023

It's not the headstock.

NickB · September 2023

Jonathangus said:

It's not the headstock.

Yeah that’s not good…

Offset · September 2023

mort said:

Could be interesting…..

What are the chances of the luthier going "Sorry mate, chop it up for firewood..."

Bennyboy-UK · September 2023

Who was the fretboarder whom along with his wife, called this program, “and then they cried”?

Offset · September 2023

Oh dear. The bar was super-low.

tony99 · September 2023

Don't think he even bothered with the intonation

sev112 · September 2023

I mean, it just put the w back together and glued them….

I’ll go on and say the tyre on my bike is flat, and could they fix it.

marshall combo, SG, AC/DC fan, and strummed a few folk chords

steer · September 2023

I'm not a guitar snob, but for a prime time telly restoration program I would have thought that they could have found someone with a guitar a bit more interesting than an Epi SG with a snapped neck.

rlw · September 2023

It was the owner who made it special, him being on the BBC list of good things to make a fuss about.

OilCityPickups · September 2023

It was a bit of a non event ... 'man glues neck back on cheap, modern guitar...' while tumbleweeds blow through ...

lustycourtier · September 2023

Winny_Pooh said:

If you want a proper repair channel check this out.

Relaxing viewing at it's no BS best

My Favourite youtuber. Makes every sunday evening for me.

BillDL · September 2023

I didn't see The Repair Shop episode with the SG, but I did see the one where the luthier repaired or tarted up an old Fender bass that purportedly had been played by the bass player for Hot Chocolate. As far as I recall the luthier did a perfectly acceptable job on the bass, but I found the story behind it a bit lacklustre. The bass had been left in the UK with his wife or partner when they were estranged and he went (back?) to live in the West Indies, and the son now wanted to learn how to play the instrument. Perhaps I am just too cynical, but I was left with the feeling that the ulterior motive in having it repaired was not so much for the son to learn to play it, but rather to increase the sale value of the bass. Sometimes my first impressions of people on the programme have been proven wrong though.

Offset · September 2023

BillDL said:

I didn't see The Repair Shop episode with the SG, but I did see the one where the luthier repaired or tarted up an old Fender bass that purportedly had been played by the bass player for Hot Chocolate. As far as I recall the luthier did a perfectly acceptable job on the bass, but I found the story behind it a bit lacklustre. The bass had been left in the UK with his wife or partner when they were estranged and he went (back?) to live in the West Indies, and the son now wanted to learn how to play the instrument. Perhaps I am just too cynical, but I was left with the feeling that the ulterior motive in having it repaired was not so much for the son to learn to play it, but rather to increase the sale value of the bass. Sometimes my first impressions of people on the programme have been proven wrong though.

Don't bother seeking out the SG repair Bill. The neck had snapped off - bizarrely - where it joins the body. It was underwhelming viewing to say the least.

I enjoyed the HC bass episode a lot more, regardless of the motivation behind getting it fixed. It at least had some history and provenance to buoy up the repair whereas the SG was a bland guitar owned by a bland kid with no interesting backstory. Bloke glues neck back onto inexpensive guitar, end of. The BBC must have been desperately short of material that week.

khaotic · September 2023

There have been a few guitar repairs on the show, and they've all been pretty underwhelming - compared to some of the hoops that the mechanics or silverwork go through, or the incredible artistic skills of the painting or ceramics it's been pretty disappointing stuff - about the best that could be said is that it's least part of the show that's not about yet another stuffed toy that should have just been thrown away 50 years ago

OilCityPickups · September 2023

Now if they had me in restoring pickups ... ;-)
left: buggered up Hagstrom bass pickup with resin bobbin falling apart ...
right: reproduction from my workshop and my own digits :-)

digitalkettle · September 2023

Bennyboy-UK said:

Who was the fretboarder whom along with his wife, called this program, “and then they cried”?

Might've been @p90fool ;
https://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/comment/2871352/#Comment_2871352

prowla · September 2023

BillDL said:

I didn't see The Repair Shop episode with the SG, but I did see the one where the luthier repaired or tarted up an old Fender bass that purportedly had been played by the bass player for Hot Chocolate. As far as I recall the luthier did a perfectly acceptable job on the bass, but I found the story behind it a bit lacklustre. The bass had been left in the UK with his wife or partner when they were estranged and he went (back?) to live in the West Indies, and the son now wanted to learn how to play the instrument. Perhaps I am just too cynical, but I was left with the feeling that the ulterior motive in having it repaired was not so much for the son to learn to play it, but rather to increase the sale value of the bass. Sometimes my first impressions of people on the programme have been proven wrong though.

As I recall, they took and old bass with mojo, removed the mojo, and put a bridge cover on.

Bod · September 2023

The crying is contractual. If they don't reach a prescribed volume they take the item out back and take turns in throwing bricks at it.

OilCityPickups · September 2023

prowla said:

BillDL said:

I didn't see The Repair Shop episode with the SG, but I did see the one where the luthier repaired or tarted up an old Fender bass that purportedly had been played by the bass player for Hot Chocolate. As far as I recall the luthier did a perfectly acceptable job on the bass, but I found the story behind it a bit lacklustre. The bass had been left in the UK with his wife or partner when they were estranged and he went (back?) to live in the West Indies, and the son now wanted to learn how to play the instrument. Perhaps I am just too cynical, but I was left with the feeling that the ulterior motive in having it repaired was not so much for the son to learn to play it, but rather to increase the sale value of the bass. Sometimes my first impressions of people on the programme have been proven wrong though.

As I recall, they took and old bass with mojo, removed the mojo, and put a bridge cover on.

Pretty much covers it ... as well as shaving the neck down to repair a missing chunk of maple ... rather than replacing it.

DrBob · September 2023

OilCityPickups said:

prowla said:

BillDL said:

I didn't see The Repair Shop episode with the SG, but I did see the one where the luthier repaired or tarted up an old Fender bass that purportedly had been played by the bass player for Hot Chocolate. As far as I recall the luthier did a perfectly acceptable job on the bass, but I found the story behind it a bit lacklustre. The bass had been left in the UK with his wife or partner when they were estranged and he went (back?) to live in the West Indies, and the son now wanted to learn how to play the instrument. Perhaps I am just too cynical, but I was left with the feeling that the ulterior motive in having it repaired was not so much for the son to learn to play it, but rather to increase the sale value of the bass. Sometimes my first impressions of people on the programme have been proven wrong though.

As I recall, they took and old bass with mojo, removed the mojo, and put a bridge cover on.

Pretty much covers it ... as well as shaving the neck down to repair a missing chunk of maple ... rather than replacing it.

That was the bit that really surprised me. Just shaving down a vintage bass neck !

Fingers657 · September 2023

Does this what used to be a cheap daytime tv program repair stuff for free if you can transport it to Sussex ?

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