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Some Interesting Repairs and Alterations

 

Replacing a Guitar Neck

Re-shaping a Guitar Neck and Adding a Fretboard Extension

 


 

This page shows the removal and replacement of a guitar neck.  This guitar never had the right neck angle.  Close; but no cigar.  It was one of my personal guitars, so no big deal; but I finally re-did the neck.  Now it has the perfect neck angle!  (And it has a good home with a good friend of mine.)

 

Underneath those photos, I show some of the process of re-shaping a neck for a customer who decided later that they wanted to change the profile shape of their neck.  This customer also wanted an fretboard extension added, which I also did.  The neck reshape was on a guitar with a lacquer finish.  We decided to refinish the re-shaped neck with Tru-Oil finish.  He was very happy with the this:  It's a great finish for necks.

 

 

Guitar Re-Neck

(A Scary Story)

 

   
Sawing off the old neck (!!) Neck gone (doggone!) Masked to remove the neck "tongue"


 


 


 
Removing the "tongue" with heat Removing the "tongue" with heat Tongue's off







 












 
There's still a block of wood glued in the dovetail joint (will be milled out) Body milled out and neck joint fitted to the body (but not yet shaped) All done


 


 








 
All done All done All done

 

 

Guitar Neck Total Reshape + Fretboard Extension

(Another Scary Story)

 

 
To match the new profile, the neck had to be made thinner near the heel.  I used a caliper and marked it for the first cut. The guitar, carefully masked and wrapper to protect it during the work. The first cut to thin the neck











Creating the new profile The neck has a new shape! Re-finished with Tru-Oil


 







 
Gluing on the new fretboard extension (two kinds of glue simultaneously!) Fretboard extension installation from the inside of the box Glued in

















All cleaned up All cleaned up Before the mods

 




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