First of all, thanks to everyone for posting and giving me advice. I've decided to switch to hanger bolts instead of the cross dowels. So far I've started filling in the holes with lengths of dowels. I will probably widen the tenon and mortise as well. And I'll probably run a length of dowel from the heel perpendicularly up through the neck. I'll have to remove the heel cap but I wasn't very happy with it anyways.
I'll give updates when I have some pictures to show. Thanks everyone for the Wonderful advice. I was getting ready to make a completely new neck before you all swooped in and saved it!!
Jonathan
|