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Location: Bellevue, Washington | I recently picked up TJ's eBay monster and was planning trying to do a retop on the guitar when I learned that it has a wonderful epoxy neck. Removing the neck from the bowl was a lot of fun, lemme tell ya, but left me with an unusable bowl.
Has anyone tried to put an epoxy neck with no K-Bar onto a bowl designed for use with the K-Bar? I was thinking either I could fill the K-Bar space with some kind of bracing and attack the neck via epoxy and the block, or possibly modify the epoxy neck to accept the double bolt configuration.
Any ideas? |
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Location: SoCal | I'd personally toss it and get a life (been telling that to Woodrow for years)..... |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Yeah, you just machine down the dovetail and then put in anchor studs and go from there. A better way is to take off the fingerboard and machine a small piece of aluminium to make a tang for the heel area. Machine out the wood and epoxy this in place, drill and tap it so you can bolt it on and then rebond the fingerboard and reattach the neck, making sure to get all the right angles so action and intonation are correct.
Easier to just get another guitar and be done with it, like Moddy said. |
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Location: Bellevue, Washington | Great suggestion Beal, that sounds pretty workable!
Any considerations need to be made for the truss rod? I would think that the two bolts and some shims would be the replacement for the truss rod so would doing something like that render the truss rod unusable or pointless? |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Like Bill said...
Use a little epoxy and Carbon Fibre to make the FB a Floater. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Leave him alone Moody. Its obvious he already has the "Bug"!
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Location: Bellevue, Washington | Great pics Mike, thanks! This will help a ton! |
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Epoxy neck on a K-Bar bowl?
