You can now watch this job on youtube play-by-play !
This page is for my GRAD students, TechDeck owners and the countless customers who have arrived at my workshop door over the years; completely devastated, by a broken headstock on their beloved Les Paul.
After a year of design / research / and refinement, I now have the answer to this "all too common" scenario.
The "Neck Surgery Jig" slides right on to the pivoting neck assembly of the TechDeck.
The regular "start and stop-cut" that I have seen done on this type of repair in the past, leaves a weak end- grain to end-grain glue joint at the beginning and end of the router cut.
The long elliptical slice on either side of the truss rod and the corresponding splines that are glued in, will yield a neck that is stronger than the original. In most cases, after professional finishing and touch up, this repair job is essentially undetectable.
This group of Level 2 students "hit the ground running" every class ..... slicing and splicing 3 broken necks, completing a fret job on a Taylor acoustic, completing a compensated nut and re-fret on a maple neck Tele, a partial refret on an American Jazz Bass, gluing up a separated acoustic guitar back and more ++ !!
When we are finished, it'll be ready for the showroom.
The asymmetrical, elliptical arch on the aluminum jig, allows the operator to splice any tilted guitar headstock.
Guitar headstocks generally tilt back from the plane of the fingerboard by 11-17 degrees. The elliptical arch of the jigs' large U-channel, is shallower on one end and deeper on the other. This allows for any degree of tilt to be sliced and spliced; cleanly, safely and consistently.
