NGD with some tears!! Sire L7v P90

[g0ldr4k3]

Hello!!!! NGD to me yesterday. after looking around to a single cut with slim neck and p90s....after looking epi and tokai, I landed with this sire. let me be clear.....it's wonderful for the money it costs. even with full price. I bought with a large discount online, talked with the owner of the local shop (very distant to me) and after few days it's here.
but as soon as I open the package (very well made I can say) a very odd feeling takes me over.....I open it very quickly and sadly I was right: probably the shipping company didn't handle it very well and the strap button has sinked a bit in the body.
I can imagine with a very powerful drop of the box.
This was the last one, brand new. Seller told me immediately to send it back so he can give my money but I like it too much....and the discount was very good (in my country the black friday is not only on friday this year...it lasted over the entire week and over with every other excuses to sell and make cash ..."all out" is the very common one).

So I would like to fix it some how...knowing that it will be very well hidden.... BUT how do you think you could fix this?

My mind goes to a bunch of toothpicks to fill the screwhole, trimmed to the level, painted around and after filling the little gap with superglue. A light send and polish after. A new hole in the same position and maybe a bigger straplock....

Do you have any other suggestons? let me show you some photos...

 

[Spirit]

Enjoy your new guitar ,maybe you could fill the screw hole with glued in tooth picks then fill bigger hole with iwith hard wood filler in a mahogany colour ,just a suggestion,probably much better ways to do it

 

[g0ldr4k3]

I tought about it (still I don't have that product in my country but there are others of course) but regular wood filler woudl be easy to crack in my opinion...but thanks for the suggestion...It brings me ideas...

 

[LPTDMSV]

What I would do: Use a “plug cutter” to make a disc of whatever wood (and whatever thickness + grain direction) you want to use, same diameter as whatever drill bit you need to clean up the hole.

Glue in the disc, finish as needed. If you don’t already have the plug cutter and drill bit, this might not be economically viable …

 

[g0ldr4k3]

It would be my choice with a unfinished or body that I have to paint completely, but to make a good result I should sand way more than 1000-2000-4000-5000 grit in a small area. with a wood plug I am sure the result would be perfect but not in this case…. My idea now is to fill the hole with toothpicks, paint around them with cherry paint for wood, fill the small “lake” around them with CA glue mixed with mahogany dust (collected from anothet bodywork… nothing goes to waste) and glue the parts where the finish has those little chips. After everything cures watersand the small part still with the protection of the paper used to mask. Again after that take off all the masks and polish the part. as you can see I already started…

 

[baiff]

I would just insert a dowel and level, re drill, stain it and use a felt washer to cover most of the repair. it won't be perfect but with a strap you won't ever see it.

 

[dc007]

I would just insert a dowel and level, re drill, stain it and use a felt washer to cover most of the repair. it won't be perfect but with a strap you won't ever see it.

Yep

 

[g0ldr4k3]

Well tou are right of course but I don’t have dowels so I have to be creative. I filled the hole with pieces of the toothpick and the mahogany dust. After that wood paint and CA glue…. Now is curing…. We’ll see in a few…