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can regular gluing of headstock to the neck (in a 10-13 degrees angle) hold the tension of the strings?

if it matters, I'm using DAP Weldwood Carpenter's Wood Glue

and by regular gluing I mean something like this:

______

_____/ + |=====

(neck) (headstock)

so the neck is cut in an angle and the headstock's edge is straight 90 degrees.

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can regular gluing of headstock to the neck (in a 10-13 degrees angle) hold the tension of the strings?

if it matters, I'm using DAP Weldwood Carpenter's Wood Glue

and by regular gluing I mean something like this:

______

_____/ + |=====

(neck) (headstock)

so the neck is cut in an angle and the headstock's edge is straight 90 degrees.

i take it that you're going for an angled headstock and my first thought is that it's going to need some dowells or something similar. typically glued on head stocks are attachec with a scarf joing that's a much greater angle than that. that angle doesn't give you a great deal of glueing surface and is right where the greatest stress from string tension is going to be the greatest.

someone should come along in a minute and add to this or tell me i'm crazy.

good luck with it.

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I agree with the scarf joint idea, but I am curious myself, wouldn't it still be end grain to end grain? Is it just the extra gluing surface that makes it more secure?

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The scarf is not dead flat on end grain. Plus the headstock is the side of the board, and no end grain at all. This joint works very well and has stood the test of time on countless guitars...

-Doug

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V joints are mostly mechanical joints, so can get away with less gluing length than scarf joints. Try a google search for v jointed headstock and you'll see the kind of thing I mean.

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Indeed. A very interesting possibility, and it seems easier than cutting an acute angle into wood perpendicular to a narrow face. Well, at least for me it is. I presume that given some good thought into the mechanical stability of any joints in that area, the possibilities are endless!

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