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Location: Ft. Lauderdale, Florida | On the LX guitars, I understand the necks can be removed by unbolting 2 bolts... Are there any glue joints, (under the fretboards) that would prevent removal by an owner, for either 12 String Guitar:
On a 1656LX, the fretboard extension over the spruce top... is it glued to the sound board on a Legend LX, or will the neck and fretboard come off w/o a hassle ???
It appears on the Elite LX with, the tapered fretboard in the LX brochure, that there is very little area unsupported over the sound board and would seem to lift off... Is the fretboard neck joint glued onto the body in anyway ???
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Location: SoCal | My impression is that it's the two bolts and nothing else. Why would you want to remove the neck? |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | See, this is why it would be good to have an "Official" response person.
The bolts hold it on but the fingerboards used to be bonded to the top as well. Don't know if they still do that. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | The top is routed to accomodate the fretboard, so I would presume that it is glued in place. Just a guess. Dave |
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Location: Ft. Lauderdale, Florida | Moody, I am trying to buy a new 12 string from AL, but I want to put a shorter scale on it. I will probably make my own neck. Trying to see how much of a hassle it is to get the old one off...
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Location: Keller, TX | Let's try it so we can let everyone know how easy it is.... you first! |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | A shorter SCALE neck? Man, just calculating the fret spacing and grooving it correctly would baffle the heck out of me. Good luck brother. Dave |
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Location: Ft. Lauderdale, Florida | I spoke to K.K. at the mothership... There is no glue holding the neck/fretboard onto the the guitar on LX's...
The Fretboard is of course glued to the neck...
But loosen 2 screws and the neck is off...
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Location: Orlando, Florida | Ab...
As interesting as that sounds (I like to experiment, as well), I would proceed with EXTREME CAUTION.
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Location: Warren,Pa. | What caution???? I say have at it! tear it apart! What's the worst that could happen? |
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Location: Orlando, Florida | ...wood, strings, and lots of tears.
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Location: Upper Left USA | "A shorter SCALE neck? Man, just calculating the fret spacing and grooving it correctly would baffle the heck out of me. Good luck brother. Dave"
Let someone else do the hard work at StewMac
Why worry? Plagarise! |
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Location: NJ | . . . it'd probably be less of a hassle to just have a longer left arm grafted onto your torso . . . |
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| Lx guitars are bolted on completely.. The mid and deep bowls have 3 bolts, 2 in the heel and one in the FB block. Super shallows have 2 bolts, one in the heel and one in the FB block. Remove the FB bolt first because you cant remove the top heel bolt cause the FB bolt is in the way... Reattaching the neck do the opposite. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | And we all made fun of Taylor for bolt on necks ... |
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Location: Omaha | Not me ... I made fun of Taylor for lots of other reasons!
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Taylor is easy to make fun of but not for the necks. If you want a shorter scale why not just permanently glue a capo to the 2nd fret? Then take a black marker and black out all the fret and side markers and with white out put them back in the right spots.
What's so hard about that? |
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Location: Ft. Lauderdale, Florida | I have done as you say... (w/o glue, blk markers & wht out)
It's a bitch to tune though...,
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Location: closely held secret | Modify a nut to fit over the second fret. |
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LX NECK QUESTION ???
