{"id":4635,"date":"2021-11-30T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=4635"},"modified":"2024-02-08T09:13:56","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T09:13:56","slug":"music-workshop-further-guitar-repair-misadventures-aka-a-pain-of-a-neck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=4635","title":{"rendered":"MUSiC\/WORKSHOP: Hofner Congress, neck fix, Pt 2. or Further Guitar Repair Misadventures, aka A Pain Of A Neck"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The neck this evening.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Well, I had hoped to do this yesterday. But yesterday became today. Anyroad, I did get around to removing the rest of the fretboard. And, Lawdy Miss Clawdy, what a pig\u2019s ear\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What the hell happened here!?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The surrounding pictures attest to the carnage: first, the fretboard wood simply refused to separate cleanly from the neck. Second, despite trying to use the chisel co-planar to the joint, it occasionally dug in and gouged out neck material. Third, the section which is \u2018flying\u2019 our above the arched top, that whole came away and took the substrate – aka the neck – with it. And fourth, in several places whole chunks of neck \u2018flesh\u2019 came away. It\u2019s become a kind of leprous zombie type neck, shedding material hither and yon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The green tape\/arrow is where the scratch-plate locator pin-hole is\/was.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

One area where the latter occurred is around the locator pin-hole for the scratch plate. I can understand that that hole weakens wood around it. But why the chunks on the top of the neck?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think what I\u2019m going to have to do is take the entire neck down a tad, one way or another, whilst ensuring it remains both flat and \u2018true\u2019. Then I can add a laminate layer.I\u2019m thinking a nice pale bear white wood, maple, perhaps? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The flying bridge section of the neck. More \u2018flaying\u2019 than flying.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Then I can rout out a channel and set the truss rod in place (adjustable end at the headstock), and finally fit a new 22-fret fingerboard. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Looking down the neck one sees some serious steps, where material has come away. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Held up to the light one can see all the chisel gouge marks.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, I had hoped to do this yesterday. But yesterday became today. Anyroad, I did get around to removing the rest of the fretboard. And, Lawdy Miss Clawdy, what a pig\u2019s ear\u2026 The surrounding pictures attest to the carnage: first, the fretboard wood simply refused to separate cleanly from the neck. Second, despite trying to … <\/p>\n

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