Sunday, July 15, 2012

Neck Removal and Cleaning of Fingerboard

I was so exhausted after the work we did yesterday I could not post all the photos of what we accomplished. Here are the remainder of the photos and comments.



When we removed the neck, we decide to keep the bracing block attached for the moment so as not to cause damage to the neck frame or fingerboard. I want to keep the original tuners and will need to clean them up so they came off next.




After carefully removing the bracing block, we found the dovetail fully intact, which will probably help us in attaching it to a new maple body.


We separated the neck from the body and wanted to see how the finger board and neck would look without the finish and paint. The fingerboard was fully painted with a several layers of clear coat and it took a long time to sand off. We discovered that the neck and fingerboard are both made of maple, so this makes everything else nice and easy for this project. Final pictures of the fully sanded and cleaned pieces in the next post.

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