I removed the neck from the body, stripped it down, sanded away all traces of the old glue and prepared both surfaces of the break. After the epoxy glue was applied, I let the neck clamped for 24h.
The body:
Meanwhile, The body had its own issues as the electronics were not working and the floyd rose tremolo was a bit rusty. I replaced all the pots with new Alpha brand 500K ones. I also changed the tone cap and output jack to ensure everything works just fine! Those Dimarzio SD pickups were quite hot and they were in a good shape. I resoldered them on the 3-way pickup selector and the electronics were ready to rock. But what about the tremolo?
I removed the tremolo and gave it a thorough cleaning. I used some wd40 for a few rusty bolts. The baseplate of the tremolo was loose and so I ended up dismantling the hole mechanism in order to reassembly it properly.
The neck:
The warlock body was ready but the the neck had quite a few little problems that had to be addressed. The headstock was solidly glued on the neck but the break was looking ugly. I glued a small piece of wood on the break and filled the gaps using wood putty. Then, the head was sanded down and taped to get prepared for colour touch up that went really well!
The maple back of the neck was sanded down and totally refinished using clear lacquer.
The rosewood board was cleaned and oiled up with some lemon oil.
The final setup:
Finally, I put back together the guitar. The frets got leveled and polished and the guitar was set up with ultra light 0.008" ernie ball strings. This nice red warlock guitar is now ready to rock again and it was totally worth the repair. The string action in low, the intonation is perfect and the pickups are hot, what a "shredding" machine! No doubt, it's a guitar hero's axe.
Here are few pictures taken during the repair procedure:
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