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Hi,

I have a friend that wants to sell a Boss VB-2.

I've read that this pedal is hard to find, so it can be a bit expensive.

Does anyone knows how much can he ask for the pedal?

I want to buy another guitar, but I would also like to fix this one. I've learned to play to guitar with this one, so it's has some sentimental value to me.

I've talked with a friend of mine that knows someone who fix and build guitars.

I think I can trust this guy, because he used to work for Ibanez and he also has some reputation here in Portugal.

Let's see if he has some solution for my problem. I will keep in touch.

The closest I'd go to doing that, would be to rout out a rectangle on the back of the body, from the trem-block cavity to the middle or end of the spring cavity, then fitting a new rectangle of wood in there, but before that, I'd freeze everything already there in the damaged area up with glue (yeah might get mostly routed away in the end, but maybe not totally). And I wouldn't do the rectangle rout all the way through the body, but maybe quite close to it.

Thinking out loud here.

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Let me see if I get that. Are you saying that I should replace the wood from where the tremolo stud is located to where the tremolo springs are bolted into the body ?

Or to replace only the wood where the tremolo post is inserted in the body, like SwedishLuthier wrote ?

Epoxy is a type of glue.

Making the arm rest is easy, you get the feel for rasps and spokeshaves realy easy. And your at the right place to get advice for it too. That cavity looks a mess, it realy does. I would say the best thing to to would be fill the cavity (theres a tutorial for this on the main site) again, then re route the trem cavity in the good new wood. Then you can just do a re-finish.

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Do you mean filling the trem cavity like the tutorial to turn the guitar to a fixed bridge ?

The cause of the cracks was not the tremolo hiting the walls. The tremolo post become loose and after that the cracks started to appear.

The holes through the back of the body were an attempt to solve the problem.

When I saw that I couldn't fixed it, I have sent it to the guy how damaged even more the guitar body.

After tha, I've performed the stud post repair, but since the wood is full of cracks, it didn't solve the problem.

Maybe I'll try to perform the stud post repair once again, and like SwedishLuthier said, I'll try to apply some glue where the wood is really cracked.

Can I use epoxy instead of glue ?

I think its time you pulled that old RG apart and ventured into the world of template making.

I thought about making a guitar body, but I don't have any experience working on woods.

From what I've read, it doesn't seem an easy task. Especially, sculping the arm rest.

First a question. Does those cracks affect the way the guitar plays and sounds?

Yes, they affect. The bridge cannot be properly set up. Look at this other picture : Another Picture 3

The tremolo post isn't totally perpendicular with the body, so the intonation will not be perfect.

Why is the wood crushed so badly? My guess is that the Floyd has been pushed hard against the cavity wall.

To prevent this you can remove some wood on the sides of the cavity.

Because the wood is very soft and dry and also because this is a almost 15 year old guitar. The luthier wanna-be damaged even more the guitar body.

You cannot remove wood from this part. The walls are thin, so I would get even thinner walls and the cracks would reappear.

Hi,

My old Ibanez RG 570 needs some serious fixing. The wood around the tremolo anchor is really damaged, as you can see by the pictures.

Another Picture 1

Another Picture 2

I've already sent this guitar to a so-called luthier, but he damaged the guitar more than he fixed it.

Is there a way to fix this guitar or the only solution is to convert this guitar from a floyd rose type bridge to a fixed bridge ?