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Originally Posted by zabdart
A lot of Les Pauls and SGs from the 70s will need neck resets at some time or other. Norlin, in their penny-wise and pound-foolish ways, chose to save money on a few inches of scrap wood by making the mortice and tenon joints more shallow by an inch on those guitars. Many of them have a tendency to twist at the neck joint over time and therefore need to be reset.
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Gotta be careful with the generalizations, but you did qualify it nicely with "a lot." By contrast, my Kalamazoo, small script '74 Standard has a transitional tenon, not the short one. It is, however, the guitar I mentioned above that needed the neck to be planed to correct a compound bow. What is interesting and ironic about it is that the neck is built up from three pieces of mahogany, which was a measure to prevent... wait for it... bowing.
It's a lovely guitar now, though, at forty years old.
Bob