Acoustic Guitar Construction

Actually the fact that the heel has pulled away at the bottom is great news -- that means the joint failed and it should be pretty easy to get the neck off. clean up, a couple of shims and a re-glue and you'll be back in business.

In any event I would not recommend a MT conversion.

That is good news.

Dave Bagwill wrote:That is good news.

I got started with neck resets on old Harmony's. Thye can come back really nicely. Here's one I did on the Harmony site:

http://harmony.demont.net/model.php?id=1361

Has an interesting history (only one of its kind listed so far). I cleaned it, reset the neck, repaired the binding and FB inlay. It's been appraised at over $3000.

Have you got some good tips for removal, shim and re-glue of the neck?

As Ken said, if the heel is separated you're half done. It won't take much time at all for the steam to loosen the rest of the joint. So, separate the extension from the top, remove the 15th fret, drill two holes into the fret slot (one for the steam needle, one for exit steam and go to it.

There is a very real possibility the once you loosen the FB extension the neck will come right out without having to steam it. I've had that happen on several occasions.

Thank you - I'm actually looking forward to it.