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Manufacturers make thousands of guitars, 90 percent of them are excellent, the occasional 10 percent need extra work as the wood may not be the best or its been exposed to a non harmoneous enviroment, we can fix necks with carbon fibre spline / refrets and other methods, but, sometimes its easier just to replace the neck.
In this instance the neck has a severe twist, reasons could be many, we have elected with conversation with the owner to replace the neck with a freshly made new one.
Time to repair approx 8 hrs over 5 days (glue drying times)
In this instance the neck has a severe twist, reasons could be many, we have elected with conversation with the owner to replace the neck with a freshly made new one.
Time to repair approx 8 hrs over 5 days (glue drying times)
The radius is also checked, we defret the neck at this stage as well, the radius was found to be 12 inch.
Remove machine heads
Remove Fretboard
We drill a hole in the dovetail to inject steam.
Inject steam and remove neck as per attached link.
Neck removed.
We test fit our new neck
And we floss the heel (drag sandpaper at joint) to correct the neck angle to the bridge.
Start with removing pins / saddle and strings.
Customer would also like a new fretboard made of ebony, so we check the scale length before dis-assembly.
We need to also take note of the inlays and or logos that may exist, these will need to be removed and duplicated
We apply titebond to the dovetail join
Making a neck from scratch starts with this link