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Originally Posted by LouieAtienza
Well, if the dovetail is fully seated in, and you can get sandpaper in there to floss the joint, the joint is then too loose and needs to be shimmed. I found it best to get the neck just a little proud of the top (I didn't glue the fretboard on until after), then back it out a little and floss the cheeks till the neck slides down flush. Then the dovetail is tight AND the heel is coped.
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I get that, Louie .... my point is that on a dovetail joint, where the neck needs to be pushed down into the mortise from above, as opposed to being pushed in (and pulled out)
laterally it is apparent that two mating
plane surfaces are much more ergonomically efficient compared to two curved surfaces , one of which ( body) is convex and one of which (neck heel) is concave.