Hi everybody,
I have a 1960 LP Junior Double Cutaway. It is a "player" and has been abused some by a brainiac or two over the years. It was turned into a 12 string at one time and had a broken peghead which was reglued OK. All the holes have been repaired. Upon repairing the peghead,the person removed some mahogany on the bass side of the neck near the nut and also sanded down the fingerboard in that area. The frets are in need of replacement, and the fingerboard has the traditional wear at the first 5 frets.
Now I'm not a repairman, but I have done a fingerboard replacement about 20 years ago. I'm thinking about some options.
A. replace the fingerboard with a stew mac Indian Rosewood pre slotted and arched board. I would replace the mahogany before re-gluing by routing out some of the old wood creating a straight surface to glue the new wood to. I'd carve the new wood into the old.
B. I have a Braz. RW board here, I can arch and slot it myself and do the rest of what I described in A.
C. Take it to a Gibson authorized repair facility and have them do it.
Guitars come and go here, so I have no permanent attachment to it, but with the current rise in value of LP's in general, I am in a quandry as to what the best option is. Any logical ideas would be helpful. Am I missing something that I could do?
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