As much as I'd like to learn to how to route a neck pocket to do a bolt-on neck, I don't have a router, and it looks like I won't be buying one for quite some time. I'd still like to do bolt-ons, though, and I've been looking over the archvies at the forum to see how others have MacGuyvered their own without a router.

This crudely-drawn picture describes the 2 techniques I've come across here at CBN and at various places around the interwebs. In both cases, a wood rail is glued either directly to the neck, or on the opposite side of the cigar box wall. A bolt can then be plunged through the rail, ending in the neck:

The top drawing has been modified by a few people so that the rail runs parallel underneath the neck, not perpendicular, across the length of the box.

I bring this up because I want to open things up for discussion: additional examples, comments, criticisms of the technique, etc. Please feel free to comment, especially if you've tried any of these techniques.