The wood split shortly after they put these tuners on, not sure if it can be fixed, I haven't taken it in to have it checked yet

Ok, its sweet looking. The body looks real good cracks usually form around the sound holes (the hearts), the fret board looks good as well. Wish they hadn't put those modern tuners on it. The old friction tuners slack off when not in use, but not the modern ones.

One last pic of the original wooden tuning pegs and a label inside with the guys name, address and phone number who made it. Called the number to take a chance, out of service of course... Still I think it's got a pretty neat history

good news.... that can be fixed quite easily. They will inject the glue into the cracks and clamp it. If the peg holes are too big they will insert dowels in and glue and re-drill the dowels. That's not a hard fix at all. Its the screws that split the wood combined with the string pressure. I'll post some pics later of a broken neck and its a lot worse than those cracks that I repaired. Definitely have it done, its beautiful!

Awesome! That's good news, thanks searay!

I'll work on getting that one decent jam I had with a couple friends when I was playing it. Honestly I was just winging it at the time but it turned out pretty cool, I'll get a link to you when I get it up

That would be cool, who ever made it knew what they were doing. That is some fine craftsmanship. When its repaired it won't hurt the value too much, but I'm guessing its worth a pretty penny and well worth having it done and hand it down to your daughter.

Went to my first Jam in a number of years the other night. I just followed along for most of the evening,and as everyone was leaving,I stood up and played two tunes. A few people followed me outside,and wanted to know who I was. It felt pretty good to know that I can still capture peoples attention If I try.

Its fun isn't it? When people actually ask you to play, and watch them tapping along and enjoying it... even if ya mess up once in a while. Were you playing the Taylor? Man do they resonate....

They didn't drill pilot holes for the screws.and that is why it split like it did. Remove all the tuners.Blow out all of the splits with compressed air,and use West epoxy to fill the cracks.Use compressed air to blow the epoxy into the cracks,and clamp back to original shape.Clean the epoxy off with alcohol,and let it cure.
If you don't have any good epoxy,you can use Titebond 2 and it will do
the job also. I have used small #4 screws to glue a broken head back in place using wood glue. If it is a really rare,or expensive instrument,then take to a luthier. If not you can do it yourself if you are careful and use a little patience.

It is rare so he's gonna take it to a luthier. If it were mine I would do it myself using the tightbond, man does that stuff hold and I like the fact that it is water soluble.

I played the Taylor most of the evening,and got out my old fiddle and played a couple of tunes at the end. I used to play a lot,and put it down for a number of years. I really like the Taylor a lot,but it needs a little tweaking.I want to get the frets filed,and lower the action just a hair. It really is a nice guitar,and really puts out the sound. My old fiddle was made in 1929,and was given to me as a gift from a professional I know. I keep a rattlesnake rattle inside,and it keeps it dusted,and rattles when I play....

I have my grandfathers old violin, was made in the 30's, never tried playing violin, but man could he play, back in the day he was out in the middle of nowhere, a farmer and he used to get together and play at all the social functions like weddings and dances. Get a couple drinks in him and he would wail on it LOL

When I was little I remember a banjo hanging on the wall, it was my grandmothers. She had quit playing by the time I was born, when I got a banjo I asked my uncle about it because I thought how cool it would be to play my grandmothers. He said he took it to a guy to get it in shape and never heard from him again, obviously not a reputable guy. I've gotten very lazy with playing anything, all this talk is stoking the flame a little.

I noticed a banjo in that vid, is that yours?

A work in progress, Epi standard pro, just slapped some parts on this guitar last year to play it and wail on it to make sure that this guitar was ok.

These are not the right coloured parts, just stuff I had laying around, the following pics will show why...

Yep broken neck on this guitar

it was pretty ugly when I got it.

Look at that split.. separated right from the fretboard tsk tsk