Gluing in a bolt on neck?

[Steve Holt]

Okay but can we talk about that body?? How thick is that monolith!?

 

[Moldy Oldy]

Maybe this?

 

[Texicaster]

Best acoustic guitars (Collings, Bourgeois etc) have bolt on necks which proves to me it won't make a positive (or negative) tonal difference.

I do agree the plate on the back looks cheap compared to the rest of your design. Maybe some plugged holes....contrasting wood. You could drop a heavy washer inside and bolt tight then plug it up!

As suggested a glue in will have little machining tolerance. It'd be nice to have that even 1° of adjustment if need be. If you miss....

Good luck!

 

[RickyRicardo]

Okay but can we talk about that body?? How thick is that monolith!?

He mentioned it in his first post - 60mm. About 2.3 inches.

 

[montyveda]

Okay but can we talk about that body?? How thick is that monolith!?

erm... thick!

He mentioned it in his first post - 60mm. About 2.3 inches.

plus around 3mm for the lid... so two and half inch or thereabouts

 

[Bendyha]

montyveda,Check out this reso-tele neck, starting at 3:30 through to 4:30ish. body depth apears to be about the same as yours, and the neck fit also much the same, and glued in.

 

[montyveda]

Dang! Now I'm hankering for a brass top instead of cedar

 

[montyveda]

I decided not to glue in the end but did go down the sculpting route and have gone from this...



to this...

just need to drill some shallow 10mm rebates for the brass cups.

 

[TN Tele]

Fender currently sells the Special Edition Custom Telecaster FMT HH, which has 2 Seymore Duncan humbuckers, a glued-in neck and is made in Indonesia for $999 usd. Not a bad looking guitar. Tele body shape without the tele ash tray style bridge, pickguard, 3-way switch and control plate. What do you think? Like it or hate it?