Posted by Uncle John on February 4, 2015 at 3:41pm
This neck is already glued and screwed into the box. Gees. I usually have the tuner holes and hanger hole done before I put it in the box.This is a relic build and I still hope to salvage it. I spread the crack with a screw driver, worked in glue and clamped it. Will cut it off about an inch - no hanger hole. We shall see.
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LOL, Thomas. My Oh Shite file overflows. And most often I can save them.
Man, this one really sounds good. Thin (3mm ply) top and bottom. Hole cut under the saddle part of the wood thinking to get more volume and a reso sound from the metal (aluminum). Got more volume, I think. But it does not sound metallic or reso like....
That's the nice thing about these things. Pretty hard to screw them up so much that we can't fix them. I imaging that we all have an "Oh Shite" file that we will keep as a reminder of simple jobs gone wrong. Except me, I never mess anything up, well there was that one time, but it really wasn't my fault. It could happen to anyone, but it didn't really happen those other times.
should be fine U J,but i wouldn't cut the top off,just fill the top hole with epoxy, then drill it out again a touch undersize,seen crackheads uglier than that
Bad luck, ok! I do like that too some times, but then I make plugs of any available piece of exotic wood, and then the problem goes from bad to art...or I do as Hal suggests. I'm quite sure your solution works too.
Might try that, Hal. I'd like to go out and sand it and see how it looks. But it got to 10 below F last night. Kind of cool in the shop. I had it warm enough yesterday for the glue to set.
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Ha, Dave. It glued up fine.
LOL, Thomas. My Oh Shite file overflows. And most often I can save them.
Man, this one really sounds good. Thin (3mm ply) top and bottom. Hole cut under the saddle part of the wood thinking to get more volume and a reso sound from the metal (aluminum). Got more volume, I think. But it does not sound metallic or reso like....
That's the nice thing about these things. Pretty hard to screw them up so much that we can't fix them. I imaging that we all have an "Oh Shite" file that we will keep as a reminder of simple jobs gone wrong. Except me, I never mess anything up, well there was that one time, but it really wasn't my fault. It could happen to anyone, but it didn't really happen those other times.
Thanks, guys. It glued up fine!
should be fine U J,but i wouldn't cut the top off,just fill the top hole with epoxy, then drill it out again a touch undersize,seen crackheads uglier than that
Bad luck, ok! I do like that too some times, but then I make plugs of any available piece of exotic wood, and then the problem goes from bad to art...or I do as Hal suggests. I'm quite sure your solution works too.
Might try that, Hal. I'd like to go out and sand it and see how it looks. But it got to 10 below F last night. Kind of cool in the shop. I had it warm enough yesterday for the glue to set.
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