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Single cut fretted 4 build neck thru

#22
considering where that slip occurred, I would take pieces from the cutoff and fill the divot, re-trim, and wait until the neck is shaped, with a careful hand, and a little time, you can make that mistake disappear with little to no structural problem at all considering it will be under the FB, and most will be carved away in shaping.
 
#23
LGT said:
Dude, think about it this way. Instead of having to have a super thick fingerboard, make it so the neck would not be flush with the body without the fingerboard glued on.
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The questions were mainly hypothetical, but OK. From your description i would guess that you mean the body would sit lower. That is achieved by my previous explanation of planing down the body. It would look terrible on would need a lot of wood to cover the depth. But again that is very complicated to cut, keep in mind that although one doesn't have to one would normally radius the fingerboard before gluing the wings, making routing tough. I just say no.
 
#25
Musiclogic said:
considering where that slip occurred, I would take pieces from the cutoff and fill the divot, re-trim, and wait until the neck is shaped, with a careful hand, and a little time, you can make that mistake disappear with little to no structural problem at all considering it will be under the FB, and most will be carved away in shaping.
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+2 Done this myself enough times. You can fix almost any seemingly un-fixable mistake. It's the beauty of working with wood.
 
#26
Wenge makes it easy with the irregular grain, as long as you keep the grain directional in the fill it will look fine, and with proper clamping and layering it would be lost mostly in the shaping, and that close to the body and under the FB, there would be little stress if any.
 
#30
I was busy today...

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Picture with my phone camera.
It sounds fantastic, on the 2 strings I played.

I made an oops on the neck pup route, so I am going to try and make some pickup covers out of some spare purpleheart I have lyin around.

Also, there seems to be a crack on the back side of the neck, running parallel down a small section of it. Slap some CA glue in it and hope for the best?

Phil
 

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