How To Fix Broken Headstock On Acoustic Guitar

You can scarf a peghead onto that. I would make an angle from the fretboard/ nut edge back on the underside. Then create a new peghead and glue it on and shape to match the neck carve.
The other option is to glue the peghead back on and then rout for splines. On an Epiphone, I'd just make a new peghead as there isn't much value in the guitar.

What I've done before is to make a sanding block with a center section open, so that once I saw a rough angle in there and avoid the truss rod, I can sand it level for the mating part.

Is it worth it....that's up to you and your friend. This is a Gibson Les Paul I did that too. It's a good repair to learn.

It's worth a stab. It's an inexpensive and common guitar, so try the ghetto-ass easy way first, and step up in complexity as needed. The hardest part is engineering the custom clamp and cauls you'll need. Remove truss rod nut, wrap rod threads in waxed paper. Epoxy the headstock back on. See what happens. It could very well hold, or it might not, in which case you need to evaluate how much your time is worth for the more extensive approach that would need to follow. I have repaired worse without reinforcing rods, and those guitars are still going along just fine, 15 or 20 years later. You can add rods if you want, though. It isn't that hard. Personally, I would fix it if it was my own guitar, but I wouldn't pay someone else to fix it.
"The other option is to glue the peghead back on and then rout for splines."
That's how I would do it. Stronger than the original neck too.

Fixes like this might de-value the guitar:

Splines replace the severed wood between the two parts. That break is really short and there isn't much of anything for the wood fibers to glue themself too. Here's an ugly but solid repair for a similar circumstance on a les paul. You'd be wasting your time gluing without adding splines.
This is how my woodworking father repaired my epi dot
It's definitely a stable fix
Except he didn't quite understand the truss rod and buried it in the repair
Yeah you definitely need more than 4 screws. Amateur.
Someone here had a video showing how some guy drilling holes for dowels in a similar break. I wouldn't but you might...LOL.
Guilty! And I should've used sheetrock screws. They hold more better.
And on this one, I probably should've pre-drilled the screw holes to keep the wood from splitting.

Your last two posts remind me of jailhouse tattoos for some reason. Maybe because they bring a tear to my eye?
And they usually get infected.
Like this neck heel repair on a DC Junior:
And counter-sunk those flatheads to keep your thumb from splitting...

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Unless it's a vintage American made Epiphone it's probably not worth paying someone to repair it. Just my opinion...

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I have fixed a fair number of broken heads and that one will be difficult. A green stick fracture is relatively easy, one along the short grain is also not too bad. At this point in my repair career I probably would not take that on.
However, if you do build a good caul to hold clamping pressure into the neck stick as well as aligning the pieces. I would plan to add both splines on either side of the truss rod and a back strap that covers the joint and runs into the neck stick. If the neck was removeable it would be easier to replace is, a dot is a set neck so that's not easy either.

Normally epoxy has no place as a lutherie glue but a case can be made for it here - use slow set high strength stuff not the five minute kind. Dan Earlewine gives a piece of advice for this kind of repair - clean out any little twigs of splintered wood but don't try to test fit it until you are ready to go - basically you get one chance.

Here us a different one following the short grain sot the glue up was simpler - for safety I added a carbon fiber spline between the two truss rods and then a back strap to add shear strength to the back.

I made a wooden jig based on this one for doing head repairs, this one is just plain cool. The important feature is the two clamps at the end of the head which drives the break together - just trying to clamp it from the sides it will want to skate apart.
Crazy glue and duct tape will fix anything ...
I'd try to remove the neck from the body. Actually I wouldn't, I have no idea what I'm doing and this is a job for a professional.

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Welcome to the broken headstock club ... it was a $150 repair for my Les Paul, but it looks and plays like new.
I believe a vintage correct way is to make a gallon of epoxy and plaster it over both sides before putting the two bits close to each other and drilling a few holes across for wooden dowels.
Note that if you decide to go this way this is a proper but expensive repair. Knocked about 6k off the value of my SG.

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tiz but a wee scratch.. With a moment or two in a shop and in the hands of a loving craftsman, good as new... Oh don't for get to bring ca$h.
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