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Location: Sydney, Australia | I bought a new second hand Adamas 1685-7 which has had the original neck taken off due to fret wear (giant sized photos on another thread). When it comes back from the Wizz who is fixing it for me, I'll need to swap over the two necks.
As I won't have anyone around to hold my hand, what are the tricks from the wise? Is it just a matter of undoing the bolts and swapping them over, or is there anything else I need to do?
When I take the machine heads off is anything likely to explode out of them - or is that only when you take the buttons off? What maintenance should I do while I have it in pieces? What's the best way to clean the machine heads?
In a related question, has anyone figured out how they attach the neck on an 08C? When I look inside the bowl (see picture below), there is a casing covering where the bolts must be? This casing appears to be an integral part of the bowl. How did they do that? I hope I never need to take that neck off.
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Location: Germany, where delicious wine is growing (Rheinh) | I've bought a few weeks ago a 1681-7, may be you have seen the thread here. It had extremely fret wear, so I've taken the neck off. There were only 2 bolts inside, very easy.
I also want to swap the neck, but Dave told me that there were a lot of differences.
The tuners you can take off also easily, they don't explode. I've cleaned and and polished mine with
"never-dull", they're looking like new.
Good luck...
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Location: Phoenix AZ | I think 08 Collector might be a different neck attachment |
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| Don't know that I'd remove a neck just for a fret dressing or replacement. The neck is already attached to the body and set before adding frets during initial build. I'd be too concerned about farcking up the set of the neck. Get the angle the slightest bit off for whatever reason and you're talking major intonation problems. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | You don't take the neck off others to do a fret job.
Is this like Seinfeld where George takes his shirt off to take a shit? |
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Location: NJ | beal LOL
08 is a set neck
depending on the adamas the fingerboard tab may or may not be glued on.
I have NEVER EVER heard of anyone taking off a neck to do a fret job |
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Location: Jet City | Originally posted by Beal:
Is this like Seinfeld where George takes his shirt off to take a shit? What's wrong with that? Doesn't everybody? |
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Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | Probably true. It would REALLY mess with the geometry.
On the C2C4 construction, I did my refretting of a "raw" 1122 neck, before it was bolted onto the finished bowl, but I intended it that way (had to install my own bolt inserts, also).
No way would I pull a "set" neck, unless it was broken already. |
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Location: Sydney, Australia | The neck was already off. The previous owner (before AJ) had taken the original neck off (due to the fret wear) and replaced it. The replacement neck doesn't appear correctly aligned and isn't a five piece neck. I want to return it to original and Andrew kindly offered to fix the original neck.
Additionally, when they pulled the original neck off, they damaged the binding (about an inch of binding is missing from the top next to where the neck attaches. Anyone know what they make that binding out of? Is it a molded plastic or something? |
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Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | ouch. Good luck with the binding. Sorry, don't know the material. Sounds like The Wizz is doing yeoman's work, though |
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