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Hey everyone, I’m dealing with a Seagull acoustic guitar which has a neck design that I’m unfamiliar with. It has a bolt on heel but a seemingly glued in neck. The customer brought it in when his child knocked it off that stand and created a gap between the heel and the neck. It doesn’t appear that these pieces were glued together so I’m guessing that I’m safe to just fit the heel and screw it in. I am a bit worried about a gap remaining. Any thoughts here or am I more or less good to go?
Thanks!
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David, would you mind if I added this to the council of elders ?
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That sounds good, do you know when the next meeting is?
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I believe around 2006, Seagull started gluing them in with epoxy. Before that time, you could just release the fretboard extension over the body and remove the bolts to get the neck off.
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I had a similar break on a new guitar I shipped last year. Almost identical break. The difference being my guitars bolt on the fingerboard extension as well, so I could work on the neck separate from the guitar. That being said, I made a jig based on Doug Propers design to hold everything together while gluing the heel together. You could probably modify the jig to fit with the guitar if freeing the fingerboard is too big a hassle. In my case, I used epoxy for the reglue, but I did that because part of the original glue joint was exposed, so I wanted to make sure I had good adhesion. Yours looks clean enough that titebond would work too.
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