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Permalink Reply by mark "mudcat" quigley on May 1, 2011 at 1:51am

drop a line to wichita sam. here on the nation  he sells a tutorial descrbing it very well.  finishing up my first bolt on and am veryy happy with the results, but i know he goes in for surgery tomorrow.

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Permalink Reply by HOGS GRUNT on May 1, 2011 at 2:06am

Most of my builds are bolt/screw on neck as I prefer this way. It gives you more adjustment on your guitar and there are quite a few photos on my page  to glean ideas from.

Just yell if you need a particular question answered and I will do my best to help.

Hogs

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Permalink Reply by Dan Sleep on May 1, 2011 at 2:40am

I don't usually make bolt on's, but I did one where I used a piece of 2x4 pine and secured it to the inside bottom of the box. I screwed the neck to the pine piece and shaped it so that the neck would lie back a bit and help lower the action near the body.

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Permalink Reply by David English on May 1, 2011 at 3:34am

Thanks Hogs,

I'll give them a look.

-JD

HOGS GRUNT said:

Most of my builds are bolt/screw on neck as I prefer this way. It gives you more adjustment on your guitar and there are quite a few photos on my page  to glean ideas from.

Just yell if you need a particular question answered and I will do my best to help.

Hogs

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Permalink Reply by ChickenboneJohn on May 1, 2011 at 4:43am

I always attach my necks with screws, 2 or 4 of them...300+ builds and never glued a neck in. It just seems the obvious, easy way to do it, as it gives plenty of opportunity for tinkering with neck angle and action.

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Permalink Reply by Mark Werner on May 2, 2011 at 2:54am

I've been using bolt-on necks almost exclusively now.    I have used two methods... For the mandola that's my sig, I used a "furniture insert".   That's a piece that has rough, wood-screw threads on the outside and a hole on the inside with fine machine-screw threads.

You drill a hole in the neck, screw the insert in, and then use a bolt through the body to attach the neck.

 

Easier is "screw-bolts" or "hanger bolts".  These have half the length threaded like a wood screw, and half like a bolt or machine screw.   You screw the wood-screw part into the neck heel, and then use the bolt part through the body to attach using nuts/washers.

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Permalink Reply by rich gallagher on May 4, 2011 at 3:51am

i have gone to bolt-on necks - i use the cross dowel method - very solid, although a little more work - using bolt ons you can take the neck off and use it on another box - case in point:  just yesterday i had a customer report that the box on the guitar i had sent him and come apart at one corner (must have been defective box) i told him to ship it back and i'll put the neck on another guitar - i also thing the solidness of the bolt-on contributes to better overall tone

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Permalink Reply by HOGS GRUNT on May 4, 2011 at 4:41am

I couldn't agree with you more John.

Hogs.
ChickenboneJohn said:

I always attach my necks with screws, 2 or 4 of them...300+ builds and never glued a neck in. It just seems the obvious, easy way to do it, as it gives plenty of opportunity for tinkering with neck angle and action.

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