Well, I am just wondering how people repair the more common mistakes/ For example, if your cutting your box to insert a guitar neck and you cut the hole too deep or too wide. How do you normall correct such? Does anyone ever use a beading around the wooden neck at the hole insert to make the enlargement there less noticible? Do errors as this make the box a toss away or is there a good common fix to such?

 

In a neck through, one actually has two chances to muck up the holes for the interted neck; front and back. It is always easier to work with a hole that is cut out smaller than to cut it larger and then try to repair. Still, mistakes do happen.

 

Any other tips on common mistakes?

 

Thanks,

Huey

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If that's all you screwed up, you're below average on the fail-scale!  :-)

We're all visual learners? >:-E

In the summer I hide my mistakes under my work bench, but in the winter they go directly into the potbelly stove.

I use those boxes for other purposes, they stick around to remind me of what NOT to do...

My favorite box is any Black, rounded Rocky Patel.  I had two but didn't pay attention to the fact that they're different sizes, so I cut the neck slot off-center on one... :-(   

It holds picks and slides now...

A recent build kept buzzing, even though I glued EVERYTHING down... I ended up cutting the glue joints out, and rebuilding it only to find it still buzzed... I was SOOOO close to cutting the neck off and giving up, until I realized the wires from the piezo resting on the lid...  

A drop of hot glue later, and no buzz..... I won't make THAT mistake again... I'll invent all new ones for next time.

John

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