parfittron Posted July 5, 2007 Report Share Posted July 5, 2007 Hey guys, New to the forum and new to building/rebuilding an instrument! Am pretty handy with tools and have a decent variety of whats needed to hopefully do what I require. I recently bought a used guitar to fix up to make a decent 6 string with floating bridge as I have never owned one. I received the guitar which had a very bad neck (worn unlevel frets, slightly bowed etc) so I purchased a new BC rich neck to re- fit. I have taken the guitar apart entirely, and am about to prep for re paint, but when test fitting the new neck, I noticed it is slightly loose in the joint as opposed to the old neck. there is probably a 0.5mm gap between the side of the neck and the body with the neck aimed square and wanted to know the best way to go about correcting this before attempting to put it all back together. I thought possibly to glue in small wedges of timber and sanding it back. Using some type of bog compound, or whether there was a better approach to do so. Any advice would be much appreciated. Regards Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick500 Posted July 5, 2007 Report Share Posted July 5, 2007 Some veneer of the same wood as the body, glued to the sides of the neck pocket should work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
parfittron Posted July 5, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 5, 2007 Some veneer of the same wood as the body, glued to the sides of the neck pocket should work. Ok mate cheers (thats kinda what i was thinking..) Will have to do some research as to what the body is actually made out of now.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick500 Posted July 5, 2007 Report Share Posted July 5, 2007 Just as long as you find something as close in color to the body wood as possible, it should work fine. I did the same thing to my first neck pocket, by the way, and it came out great. Can't even tell there was a fix. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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