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I've agreed to purchase a G&L Limited Edition Tribute ASAT 2018 Olympic White and pick it up tomorrow. I'm looking at the pictures again and I'm a little concerned...
Does this line look like the joint is separating or is the dark line just grain?
I'll certainly ask him before I make the drive to pick up, but wanted to get your opinions.
I've agreed to purchase a G&L Limited Edition Tribute ASAT 2018 Olympic White and pick it up tomorrow. I'm looking at the pictures again and I'm a little concerned...
Does this line look like the joint is separating or is the dark line just grain?
I'll certainly ask him before I make the drive to pick up, but wanted to get your opinions.
Thanks!
The headstock and neck are formed from one piece of neck blank; there is no joint for the headstock and neck. I think It is just the angle of the photo which gives this appearance.
Craig wrote:
The headstock and neck are formed from one piece of neck blank; there is no joint for the headstock and neck. I think It is just the angle of the photo which gives this appearance.
Sure looks like a cracked neck to me. The dark line is right where the wood would separate with a hard fall on the headstock. If so, it wouldn't take much to fix it, but price it accordingly.
I think that is just wood grain - especially given the color of the figuring elsewhere on the headstock. As mentioned already G&L, like Fender necks before them, are carved out of a single stick of hard wood (typically maple). They are not like a Gibson, for example, which achieves the angle after the nut by gluing a separate piece to the neck. Guitars designed by Leo, achieve the angle by removing wood from atop what eventually becomes the headstock.
I would be very surprised if that was anything other than wood grain.
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