Cracked Parker Fly 5 headstock. HELP

[Randy W Lopez]

Thanks Scott and Mike.
Mike, any other info would, as always, be greatly appreciated.
Thanks for your input Scott.
I did get a chance to tinker around with the bass, tone and feel wise, and saw the potential for live and studio.
I know live, some will request another bass be used (that doesn’t look like a Fender mentality), but that's cool.
I'm curious what encasing the whole headstock in carbon fiber might do. Surely it would strengthen what is possibly the weakest area of the whole instrument.
Some thing I might bring up to whoever the repair goes to.

 

[Randy W Lopez]

Hey Mike. Did you pick up a Roland V-bass?
If so, new generation?

 

[T-MOST]

You don't repair items that are broken before you get them. Send it back.

 

[MikeBass]

Hey Mike. Did you pick up a Roland V-bass?
If so, new generation?

1st gen V-Bass.....it's the real deal Randy.
To get it to really sound good though, you HAVE to edit and mess with it.
Stock settings are OK, but once you get into them a bit, you can really make things sound good.

I'll look for Tom's info and shoot it to you.

 

[Hoover]

Actually cracked headstocks, repaired by someone who is qualified/knows what they are doing is a very simple and easy fix. And in almost every case it is left as good as it was before the crack.
And if done correctly, should something happen again to the headstock, the fixed portion is usually stronger than the surrounding wood.

+1
I had a Rickenbacker 3001 with a headstock that was almost 90% snapped off...big split that went from just below the E tuner to the middle of the second fret, and if you pulled (forward) on the headstock you could open up that gap wide enough to get a live adult weasel's head in there.

$40 and 3 days with my local guitar repairman later (thank you, Bob Cavannaugh!) it was good as new. Strung it up with high tension roundwounds and used it unhesitantly for the next three years, never had a problem with that neck.

 

[Randy W Lopez]

Well, I did get ahold of Ken Parker, the only person to get back with me of the 4 or 5 I emailed in regards to the repair I'd like to add.
Anyway, his suggestion was
"I would suggest using a room-temperature curing epoxy resin such as WEST System, which is readily available in marine supply stores."
Now to find the repitable repair shop that has or can work with this.
Any other suggestions?

 

[Randy W Lopez]

Mike, did you ever find the # for the shop in A2?

 

[MultiScaleMale]

Another +1 for Jerry Dorsch at Graphite Guitar Systems. He keeps a low profile, but his work is top notch. He's one of the original memebers of Modulus, so he knows his stuff.