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Good snag, Chris!

A friend dropped a Gold top Epiphone les paul off for me to have a look at - it is missing it's headstock in a more serious fashion, but I have the headstock (not the chipped out missing wood parts, though.

We could have a Gibson headstock clinic! (I just got through fixing a split neck on an Epi 335 too).

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Jim Kirby
kirby@udel.edu

Cool Chris!! When I saw the thread title I thought it was a rebuttal to abomovation recognition.

I love work like this on "junk"! It shows the luthier skill in making a once good guitar all better!

Time for another episode of "Guitar Hospital"!

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Billy Dean Thomas
Covina, CA

"Multi famam, conscientiam, pauci verentur."
(Many fear their reputation, few their conscience)

I can't see the back of the neck, but it looks to me like you could just scarf or graft a peghead on there without removing the fingerboard.
Good find, though!

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Mark Swanson
Swanson Guitars
http://www.MarkSwansonMusic.com