Well, it is just an Epiphone, but I still have an attachment to it after all these years. It was the first guitar I bought with my own money when I moved to Japan, so sentimentally it has more value than money. Thanks for letting me know it should be all right.

No actually, it's a Les Paul Standard. The back is laminated, with a maple cap. I bought it about 15 years ago. The crack is on the low E side, near the top of the guitar. It's not overly huge right now, about 2 inches, and I don't think it is too deep. I found some advice elsewhere that said to fil...

I was just looking at the back of my Epiphone Les Paul, and noticed that there was a big crack along one of the points where the wood had been laminated, and the crack has gone through the finish. I'm rather concerned that this is going to start to rot the wood inside. Any ideas of how I can do a si...