Brian, I had the exact same thing happen to my first ES-335. I tapped the head while walking through a doorway. The breakage was similar as well. I wrote it off as a total loss, bought a new one and treated it with "kid gloves". That was forty years ago and the second 335 is still in great shape.
Take care, all.
-Chas
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--- In jazz_guitar@..., "Brian Kelly" <bkelly@...> wrote:
Gibson headstocks are pretty easy to break. I just tapped one one night walking through a doorway. I hit the back of the headstock in the same direction that the string would be pulling the headstock and that tap (probably more than a tap but not a whole lot more) was enough to break the headstock at the base in front of the nut.
Gibson was putting a heel at that point for awhile but I don?�?t se one on my newer Gibson 137.
Brian
From: Jeff Shirkey
Sent: Saturday, December 18, 2010 1:49 PM
To: jazz_guitar@...
Subject: Re: [jazz_guitar] Gibson headstock weakness
Hi Juan,
Maybe--although that would seem to be something they could correct
easily. Most of my Gibsons are "Historics", which means they try to
replicate the old guitars as closely as possible in terms of their
design, so if they made 'em this way back in the day, the Historic
models will follow suit.
But I've still never heard of a headstock just breaking without taking
a knock on something. I'll be curious to see what Will says.
Thanks,
Jeff
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