...this is what happens. :) I can recycle some of the maple, but this neck is a lost cause. 

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

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.  

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. 

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.

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 )

nice  harp  neck  ;-)

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.

Genius!

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

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

Nope. Rubber band gun.

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