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Old 02-06-2019, 03:02 PM
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Originally Posted by charles Tauber View Post
A few that I've worked on had a failed neck joint. Removing and reseting the neck was easy - on those.
Can you elaborate some on the neck removal process, Charles ?

Steve has stated that dowels were used to locate the neck, and Brian says that the joint is a square tenon, so obviously there are no dovetails involved.

I am interested to know how you went about steaming these necks off.

As I said above, IMO the best option is to shim the neck with a tapered shim,(which incidentally I have just done with a Radiotone archtop ) but your experience seems to indicate that that may not be the optimum approach.
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