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Permalink Reply by Tim on November 6, 2009 at 6:07am

look up "scarf joint neck" or scarf joint guitar

you can also use a thick peice of wood and just cut out the angle IE gibson but every one knows how bad gibson necks are about breaking the scarf joint is much stronger and uses less wood.

i highly remcomend looking in to Melvin hiscocks book make your own electric guitar.

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Permalink Reply by Diane in Chicago on November 6, 2009 at 6:52am

http://www.veoh.com/browse/videos/category/howto/watch/v15574729RnS...

Simply the best, simple tutorial out there. He's got others to watch, too.

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Permalink Reply by Old Lowe on November 6, 2009 at 7:04am

This is how I do it just glue a board under neath your neck and clamp it for a while then cut that top off the headstock at an angle I use a miter saw to do this then add some ears on the sides then I cut off the bottom of the headstock with my band saw. I don't think this is technically a scarf joint but it works great and is really tough. Wes Yates sent me this image in my comments a while back thank him for the diagram hope this helps!

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Permalink Reply by colin mcgrath on November 6, 2009 at 7:35am

thank you.

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