Ibanez guitar neck repair replacement

[prsguitars1678]

dude your wacked man you completly destroyed those guitars, can tell you dont care about the damaged guitars, so how is frankenstein doing? is the neck implant working at all

[mqmqmwmw]

i must shut the music off man its insupportable

[vinnie01]

you sir are an evil genius

[squidskunk]

why didn't you use steam to release the glue...?

[TheRocklife13]

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[Enforcer010]

hey can i have that Fender neck Xp

[camonmeplz]

I thought it would turn out very bad at first, but you did a very good job. Well done.

[RR5GUITAR]

brutal.

[dickdogginit]

this old guita..oldguitar

[kelvin2004qq]

That is amazing.....You are a pro

[Pipdabassman]

Hi shadrax9, a well executed piece of repair :)

[Ramprat85]

That was cool. Can you fix mine next?

a gretsch bass lol

[bluegrassguy33]

why would you cut the top up just to get the neck off?

[shadrax9]

The donor guitar was made at the Ibanez factory, though it had no name on it (and a plywood body). Therefore, it was the perfect match, body style, paint, scale, etc., and it was only $40. The body on the donor guitar was not worth fixing, but the neck was still good (minus the fretboard; I used the original fretboard from the broken Ibanez). So, I cut right through the body so that I could preserve the block and all to carve a well-matched dove tail joint.

[dcut74]

I think you have a great job or hobby. What do you think of cedar wood for guitar? I have a Godin, looks great with a deep sound, but the wood is weak, fingernail can scratch it.

[shadrax9]

i think cedar tops sound great but spruce will sound better after a lot of years

[ibdavid123]

looks confusing =D, nice job though!

[shadrax9]

Thank you I took on this job for a friend who wanted to keep as much of there original guitar as possible so i posted the slideshow mostly to show the way i found to overcome the inferior doweled neck some of the pictures are staged they are just examples

[lucasyorkeiscool]

i see that it has no tenchon rod

[bestinhouse]

this makes you cringe until you see where he is going - He's taken a cheezy doweled neck and turned it into a dovetailed neck - great work. The guy has bawls...

[SlitYourThroatz]

Haha, I wish I could see the sucker that pays this moron to fix his guitar...sitting there playing it then suddenly the neck snaps off.

[shadrax9]

oh that hurt my funnybone!

[fimblemccrumblewitz]

I'm sorry to say it, but that video made my cringe.

[UAclassico]

That's funny.

Definitely NOT the correct way to remove a neck.:-)

[melllow0ut]

Hey, I hear what you're saying, not the correct way to remove the neck, but take notice that the neck on the vintage Ibanez was garbage, with the headstock broken off and all, so who cares how you remove it? As for the 'donor guitar', what a great idea! cut into the body and take the block and all! Carve your dovetail, and there you have it! And....dowling to connect to neck to the body?...what was Ibanez thinking? Thanks for showing, quite informative.

[UAclassico]

freeze the screen at 1:52; the dovetail is crooked. Secondly, I could make a neck from scratch more quickly than I could have done all that, leaving me with 2 functional guitars instead of 1. Also, the fretwork fingerboard and neck shape would be far superior to that of the donor guitar.

[UAclassico]

I agree it takes a significant amount of skill to execute what the guy did, but I think it was a questionable approach to such a repair.

[UAclassico]

Finally, the last measurement shows the neck set to be far too shallow for playability.

[shadrax9]

Ok just to clarify a few things. The dove tail is crooked but the neck and fretboard are straight and true to the body, because the inside neck block was offset and undersized i had to compensate for that. Also the neck that i used was identical the color matches perfectly. I used the original fretboard and the owner has been using this guitar in studio to record.

[UAclassico]

I've never seen anyone drop glue into a dovetail like that (is that what you meant by a staged pictures). The glue in a French dovetail is not used to keep the neck from pulling forward, but to keep it from being removed (upward), glue is sparingly applied to the mating surfaces only (not the cavity). If it's not a compound dovetail, why not just use a mortise/tenon joint? As is, that neck will be nearly impossible to remove if anyone ever wants to do the job the correctly in the future.