In the humble abode of the Argapanator, things are set in motion. I have this old guitar that a friend gave to me, with split braces and a bowed neck. No truss rod.
So I googled "straightening guitar neck" and found this method. The neck is heated carefully and placed fretboard down on a perfectly flat heated surface.
I used a stone sample and a thick piece of duralaluminium (at least in Swedish). Both was heated in the oven to 85-90 degrees centigrade. I shimmed the neck at the nut end and at the 12th fret, then clamped it down using cauls of moldable plastic.
After two attempts, it looks as if it worked! I might try it on another guitar as well.
2 comments:
Cool!
Maybe I should try this on my destroyed archtop guitar, but there's a broken trussroad inside ;-( I suppose it won't work...
See you this summer ! Happy new Year !, Yan
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