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Permalink Reply by Bad Finger (Eric) on April 28, 2015 at 3:57am

Hang it up on the wall.  That one is worth saving.

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Permalink Reply by Bad Finger (Eric) on April 28, 2015 at 3:58am

You can't separate the heel block from the neck?  Even if you had to plane off 1/16" you can glue on a fretboard over top.  I would try to saw it off close then plane.  

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Permalink Reply by Dane Donato on April 28, 2015 at 4:01am

I will cut off the heel block right below the glue joint, it will just be a bit shorter for another project, and use the rest of the neck for small bits as I need them. But I may keep this one as a reminder to myself :) Or make a guitar with a super, super, super high and totally unusable action and string angle. Or keep it around to fight off intruders. Maple is very hard, after all. 

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Permalink Reply by Bad Finger (Eric) on April 28, 2015 at 4:09am

I think you could cut off the heel block cutting with its glue joint on the neck, not cutting the neck shorter.  I would give it a try. You'll lose nothing more than wood and time.

If you replane both the neck surface and the heel block you could salvage both and glue the block on the correct side.

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Permalink Reply by Goldsmithexile on April 28, 2015 at 6:22am

Thats what I would do, especially after all the time spent and hassle of fitting up and gluing the scarf.

I'd rather lose the heel block, or have a slightly smaller one, than redo the entire neck from scratch. Easier to remake a heel block, if necessary, than redo a scarf (time and effort )

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Permalink Reply by the anonymous pick on April 28, 2015 at 5:04am

nice  harp  neck  ;-)

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Permalink Reply by JL on April 30, 2015 at 1:30am

I really like wayfinder's idea, run the strings THROUGH the headstock to the backside and across a second nut to a backwards tuner.

2 advantages: it will work better than a string tree to give a good break angle over the nut AND the tuners wont get knocked when you set it down.

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Permalink Reply by Joe Caruso on April 30, 2015 at 4:19am

Genius!

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Permalink Reply by Ron "Oily" Sprague on April 28, 2015 at 8:22am

Slice off the heel block at the joint, sand down the top of the neck, and reattach the heel block on the correct side.mthis is eminently salvageable. Not a lost cause at all.

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Permalink Reply by John Sawyer on April 28, 2015 at 11:56am

We all have our albatross to bear. I say make a ukulele.

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Permalink Reply by Dane Donato on April 28, 2015 at 2:16pm

Thanks guys. I think maybe I should just make this into a tiny hockey stick. 

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Permalink Reply by Ron "Oily" Sprague on April 29, 2015 at 9:47am

Nope. Rubber band gun.

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