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Location: Milford, MI | I have been wanting to send my 1866 in for a neck reset but never got around to it. Then the top cracked so I thought I would give it a shot at home.
Thank you KS_Daddy for the help and info. It took about 1.5 hours(it would have taken less time but I was scared)and it turned out really good.
No new scratches and the Rosette came off in one piece. Now I will take it in to get the top fixed. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Did you remember to take step-by-step photos? :eek: :D |
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Location: Milford, MI | No, but it was easy enough that maybe I should take it apart and take photos. My biggest fear was breaking the rosette. |
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Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | "No, but it was easy enough..."
Wait-a-minute, aren't those glued-in necks?!
How did you adroitly remove the neck, with little difficulty.
Inquiring minds REALLY want to know! |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | oops :eek: |
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Location: Milford, MI | The 1866 is a bolt on. The only thing glued was the finger board extension. I will take photos when I get home from work today. |
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Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | OK, now I get it. It would be helpful, for those folks like me, to have reference list of neck joint-types. I tend to rehab the bolt-on types, cuz the disassembly, and reassembly, is much easier to accomplish.
Anybody got a (reasonably) comprehensive list of model #'s? |
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Location: Milford, MI | I have the pics on ning but can't remember how to ad them to a post. I hate getting old. lol |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | They are here, take your pick of which you wanna see...
Here are a couple...
     
I like the use of the spatula. |
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Location: SoCal | Was that an official Ovation spatula? |
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Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | What? You couldn't tell from the A-pattern in the tool design? |
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Location: Flahdaw | Originally posted by moody, p.i.:
Was that an official Ovation spatula? No, the Ovation model has a rounded back...useless for this particular proceedure. |
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Location: north coast ohio | Thought about doing the same job, but I took the mothership route for my 1866 neck reset after a music store in Marietta Ga. stuck it to me.
"Mint condition does not mean it doesn't need a neck reset". Direct quote from the store owner. Hmmm! |
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Location: Milford, MI | The wife just shook her head when she saw my tool selection.. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Originally posted by mgbgt:
"Mint condition does not mean it doesn't need a neck reset". Direct quote from the store owner. Hmmm! Did you tell him that he needs to take English lessons? |
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Location: Utah | So what did you do after taking it apart to change the neck angle? |
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Location: Milford, MI | Thank you OMA. I forgot to say that in my last post. |
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Location: Milford, MI | FlySig: I used pieces of a business card on the top part of the neck pocket and a couple under the fretboard extension.
Not Hi-tech and I know it should have been wood but I used what I had on hand. |
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Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | And, nobody's gotta see it, anyway. But then again, cat's-outta-the-bag now! |
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Location: Milford, MI | Lol, yes it is. Cat is running wild... |
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Location: Milford, MI | I will say. It takes very little to change the neck angle. A lot less than I thought. |
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Location: Whitecourt, Ab | Did you use steam before the spatula? |
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Location: Italia, Zianigo di Mirano (Venezia) | hey red,may you want to try to fix the" hump under the fretboard" of your CL? |
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Location: Whitecourt, Ab | No it plays like butter up to the 12th fret, which is as far as I ever go. I have a plywood topped Ultra that some day I would like to install a solid top on |
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Location: Milford, MI | I didn't use any steam. I just really took my time. |
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Location: Milford, MI | I was told that the epoxy ovation uses does not react to steam. I worked very slow and the first time I heard the epoxy crack I thought I broke something. Not a good sound.
I didn't use any tools for the Rosette. I worked around the sound hole putting slight upward pressure with my fingers until I found a weak spot. And then worked on both sides of the weak spot until it was free.
Be careful. You run the risk of really screwing up your guitar. This was my first time doing anything like this and I just got LUCKY! |
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Location: Italia, Zianigo di Mirano (Venezia) | rededdie,....on my CL (strings 0.12-0.54), as you see, her also hump at the end of the fretboard, it's only a cosmetic problem. The CL is easy plaiyng until the last fret (certainly not Al Di Meola), although those in position by I'm not going never .For this result, I went to a very good luthier(maybe the best in my region), for the set-up at frets and neck (and shims).... 
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Location: Milford, MI | Which model CL is that? |
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Location: Whitecourt, Ab | Titti, I don't have a CL mine is an 1117 legend. Deep bowl, Bolt on neck K-bar truss. I can easily play to the 15th fret before there is any problems so as I said before it is cosmetic only, however a little more severe than yours. |
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I did a neck reset.