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Vintage V100 set up and headstock rescue

Vintage V100 set up and headstock rescue I began this set up expecting it to be one of those ‘bread and butter’ jobs; how many Vintage V100s and Epiphone LPs etc have I set up over the years? The number must be in the hundreds. How many old plastic nuts have I knocked off the end of 3-aside-headstock guitars over the last 7 years? Could be as many as 1000. And in all that time, not a SINGLE nut turned out to be so tightly attached to the finish on the headstock that it ripped the finish off as the nut came off… until THIS job. You’ll see me taking a few too many taps at the nut…. before it dawns on me that something is wrong here. And before long I can see that the nut has pulled the surface layer of the headstock in a single sheet - cracking it near the edge. Damnation! So… what looked like a simple job suddenly turns into a long-winded repair job. Thankfully I have the confidence and the means to repair the problem. My strategy was to glue down the lifting finish, sand out the edges of the splitting poly, recolour where necessary and then spray over the front of the headstock with waterborne poly using my Apollo turbine spray system. After building up enough new clear coat I was able to sand it back flat and ultimately buff it (and the rest of the guitar) out on my wheel. After that, the set up proceeded without further incident. Disappointed as I was with the problem with the headstock finish I made it my business to report to the customer immediately and let him know of the steps I was going to take to remedy the situation. What caused it? A combination of too much superglue used to fix the nut and a factory habit of spraying the black and clear coat up and onto the rear edge of the nut, giving it even more ‘grip’ to the headstock finish and making it even less willing to come off cleanly. Had I realised the solidity of this grip a couple of knocks earlier I might have saved the larger splitting off of the finish…but I would still have had to effectively cut the nut off and the poly would have been damaged as a result of that too.