by AxAxSxS » Wed Aug 05, 2015 1:34 pm
after seeing that, this becomes trickier. The reason I asked about Epi is that the scarf join on the neck seems to have been a failure point. I see this fairly often and it indicates that the join wasn't perhaps the greatest in the first place? anyways.
I was going to say, it's an epi, harvest parts and chuck it. buy a new one and put the parts in, but it looks like you've gone a bit further than that. We are now in unique guitar territory.
Expensive quote tech guy is probably on point. To fix that with existing material requires a complete tear down of the neck. really the fret board should be removed, the scarf join separated and then treat as if you are building a new guitar, and refinish to match the existing paint. A fair amount of work.
I would suggest a new neck. You can harvest the headstock inlays or whatever, but I would source a new neck, put that in, then go ahead and refinish the neck. heck if you ever entertained the idea of converting the epi to gibson, now would be the time. I dont know why so many people, myself included, hate the epi headstock and love the open book. you could also get a stronger neck with a volute.
then again it still might be less work to source another goth sg and repeat the mods. Not having to repaint is the tipper in that contest I think.
