Thanks, Doc. Sounds like a real problem. Ugh. Good luck with the neck!!
OM 120 neck joint
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GuildFS4612CE
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Perhaps you can email the pics to GAD...after the holiday he may be able to figure out how to post them...after all, he is a tech genius
geoguy
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You should be able to simply click on the "insert image" button, right above the text box where you write a post.
Click on the text that says "click here", LOL.
Then select the picture file on your computer that you wish to upload.
Click on the text that says "click here", LOL.
Then select the picture file on your computer that you wish to upload.
FINISHED !!!! An email to the folks at Cordoba confirmed that this guitar has a Dovetail neck joint so I proceeded with the heat stick process.
The glue let go just fine but the joint would not come apart. It could move about 1/8" up or down but no further. Closer examination of the neck block revealed a clean circle that looked like the end of a dowel. But I reasoned that a dowel through the neck block and into the heal of the neck would not allow the movement that was there. Eventually I took a pin vise drill and bored into the center of the dowel end. Sure enough I hit a solid end about 1/4" in. So I hogged it out with a fine chisel to reveal a phillips head screw. I backed that succor out and the neck just fell off.
The rest of the neck reset proceed without any trouble even though the overset neck angle required removing material from the top of the heel rather than the bottom. So I could not use sandpaper pulls. It was chisel and file a small amount at a time until the angle was correct.
It was a hell of a job but well worth it as the guitar plays perfectly now and the all Mahogany tone is so rich and pleasing. Hard to put it down!
The glue let go just fine but the joint would not come apart. It could move about 1/8" up or down but no further. Closer examination of the neck block revealed a clean circle that looked like the end of a dowel. But I reasoned that a dowel through the neck block and into the heal of the neck would not allow the movement that was there. Eventually I took a pin vise drill and bored into the center of the dowel end. Sure enough I hit a solid end about 1/4" in. So I hogged it out with a fine chisel to reveal a phillips head screw. I backed that succor out and the neck just fell off.
The rest of the neck reset proceed without any trouble even though the overset neck angle required removing material from the top of the heel rather than the bottom. So I could not use sandpaper pulls. It was chisel and file a small amount at a time until the angle was correct.
It was a hell of a job but well worth it as the guitar plays perfectly now and the all Mahogany tone is so rich and pleasing. Hard to put it down!
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Where was the circle that you saw on the neck block? I don't think I see anything like that on either of my Westerly Collection guitars ('15 D-140 and '16 F-1512), unless it's hidden under the sticker with the serial number or so close to the top that I can't see it through the soundhole. I wonder if the neck joint is different in different models/years...
It was pretty much dead center of the neck block. There was evidence that the neck had originally been underset and reset at the factory in China. Too bad they went through the trouble to do that only to over shoot the mark badly. But it's all good now.