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09-01-2023, 06:50 AM
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Heel crack question
Hello,
I just bought my first acoustic and it was a b-stock due to some finishing issues on the back of the guitar. Finish issues aren't a big deal to me so I went ahead and bought it. It arrived yesterday and it appears that some finish issues weren't the only issue. The guitar has a crack in the heel. It looks to me like it occured when they screwed in the strap button. The crack goes from the screw hole to the the join where the heel wood connects to the neck wood. The crack does not appear to affect the joint. So now I need to make a decision on if I return it and get my money back or keep it and have the crack repaired. Can anybody help me out and take a look at my picture and give me their opinion of the severity of the crack, if it can be repaired, and what I should expect to pay to have it repaired? I would like to know this information before I talk to the shop I ordered it from. Thanks in advance for any help you can give, Adam 
Last edited by AdamInTx; 09-01-2023 at 08:21 AM. Reason: additional info 
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09-01-2023, 07:36 AM
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a thought
I'd be returning it. Seriously damaged goods. I think a good repair means removing the neck, gluing and clamping the heel back together, reinforcing (like drilling for and installing a dowel up the height of the heel) and making a new heel cap, and refinishing the heel. Then reinstalling the neck. NOT CHEAP!
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09-01-2023, 06:13 PM
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Send it back
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09-02-2023, 11:46 AM
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That does not look serious to me. I would remove the strap button and wick in thin CA glue through the screw hole. It may just be a finish crack; if it's a wood crack it is very tight, and the CA should hold it.
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"Still a man hears what he wants to hear, and disregards the rest." --Paul Simon Last edited by Howard Klepper; 09-02-2023 at 11:53 AM.
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09-02-2023, 11:54 AM
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a thought
Regardless of the amount of remediation needed, if OP's planning on keeping this instrument, a re-negotiation of the price makes sense to me. Never know till you ask, but the break was not factored into the price paid.
'Tis but a scratch.' Last edited by phavriluk; 09-05-2023 at 09:38 AM.
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09-02-2023, 03:15 PM
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I don't have the guitar in hand, but that looks more like a crack in a thick-ish
finish (polyester?) than something in the wood.
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bonzer5 Last edited by Carey; 09-02-2023 at 03:59 PM.
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09-05-2023, 11:06 AM
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Looks like a finish scratch. A crack in the wood would follow the grain, which that isn't.
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