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)
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Sawing off the
old neck (!!) |
Neck gone
(doggone!) |
Masked to remove
the neck "tongue" |
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Removing the
"tongue" with heat |
Removing the
"tongue" with heat |
Tongue's off |
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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 |
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All done |
All done |
All done |
Guitar Neck Total Reshape +
Fretboard Extension
(Another Scary Story)
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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 |
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Creating the new
profile |
The neck has a
new shape! |
Re-finished with
Tru-Oil |
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Gluing on the
new fretboard extension (two kinds of glue
simultaneously!) |
Fretboard
extension installation from the inside of the box |
Glued in |
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All cleaned up |
All cleaned up |
Before the mods |
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