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Re: "Slightly mortised butt heel"
Posted: Fri May 11, 2012 6:55 pm
by ken cierp
Dan I believe you have a winner. Interestingly, Taylor grafts on the head-stock, but you grafted on the the FB extension end of the neck. Once again more then one means to an end. BTW as far as I know Taylor glues on a large heel block -- all in an effort to conserve wood.
Re: "Slightly mortised butt heel"
Posted: Fri May 11, 2012 9:03 pm
by Dave Bagwill
I see - Dan that is a well thought out plan; I may borrow it, which really means steal it, from you. :-)
Re: "Slightly mortised butt heel"
Posted: Fri May 11, 2012 9:42 pm
by Dan Pennington
Dave, I borrowed/stole from someone else. So, it's all yours. Maybe you will make a little improvement and I can borrow that for my next guitar. I'm going to build a couple of Weissenborns. So you have time to come up with something new that I can steal.
Dan
Re: "Slightly mortised butt heel"
Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2012 5:16 am
by Dave Bagwill
How about this?
Re: "Slightly mortised butt heel"
Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2012 10:06 am
by ken cierp
Vega's (many thousands made) and the original Taylor's had a simple butt joint no mortise -- with the heel perimeter relief shaved as shown above. Vega's used dowels for attachment -- which will be my Ukulele neck joint design.
Re: "Slightly mortised butt heel"
Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2012 11:40 am
by Dave Bagwill
I was hoping that the mortise would make for easier neck angle adjustments down the road?
Re: "Slightly mortised butt heel"
Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2012 12:36 pm
by ken cierp
No reason you can't add the mortise feature -- but nine times out of ten a re-set will involve shaving material off "the lower" portion of the heel so the neck angle is increased -- HS tipped away from the sound board. There is some major complexity involve getting the heel profile to match perfectly in the mortise. Lots to consider. Economy of effort.