Insight Into Neck Resets

chazmo

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Chris, that's a pretty cool discussion about the neck, etc. It's amazing how much flex is there at the neck block with the top removed. You're little video there is instructive!

Great stuff; I hope your ideas can eventually help eliminate this troubling part of guitar construction. Keep at it. Someday you'll have to show me what you're up to.
 

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Chris, that's a pretty cool discussion about the neck, etc. It's amazing how much flex is there at the neck block with the top removed. You're little video there is instructive!

Great stuff; I hope your ideas can eventually help eliminate this troubling part of guitar construction. Keep at it. Someday you'll have to show me what you're up to.
Glad you like it, Charlie. It is an eye-opener, for sure. Great idea, by the way... We'll do a live video tour of the shop and the latest projects on the bench. It would be fun.
 

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My 45-year-old D25 is showing none of these signs, knock on (mahogany) wood!
My 74’ D-35 doesn’t need one but isn’t too terribly far away from needing a reset. What’s is weird is ours are from the mid 70’s yet I know of a beat up D-30 from the late 80’s that absolutely needs one. I also noticed that the worst examples appear to have been stored away in less than desired conditions for years and years. But I guess it’s just luck, some guitars are pushing 50 and still play yet some ain’t even 20 years old yet with a reset likely in the near future.
 

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Do carbon fiber acoustics have the same neck reset risk?
 

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Do carbon fiber acoustics have the same neck reset risk?
What a great question. I'm guessing that unless the neckblock and neck were carbon fiber as well as the body, then potentially "yes".

Guess based on the fact that a wooden dovetail joint would still experience compression/deformation over time even if the sides were CF.
 

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Al, you are spot on. Those who build entirely wooden acoustics, along with those of us who incorporate carbon fiber into our wooden acoustic guitar builds all deal with the potential for changes in the wooden structure, changes that could require a neck reset to accommodate. Those whose instrument builds contain carbon fiber structures in lieu of wood do not. Most of today's name brand carbon fiber guitars (Emerald, RainSong, Composite Acoustics, McPherson, etc) will have no need for a neck reset (unless they somehow left the factory with an undesirable neck set).
 
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And here I was, about to ask the board a neck reset question and I thought to myself, "Myself, I bet if I just do a quick search to see if there are pre-existing compendium threads that would nuke my basic-lame question from orbit, I could save a bunch of time." And this thread is what I found. o_O *mind blown

Based on some things I've read here, I think my guitar could benefit from a reset but not wildly so. Not yet at least. (provided my tech can resolve the buzzing B string issue we're currently experiencing)

When the time does come the decision will probably turn on 2 factors...
1 - Do I have the $500+ laying around to pay for it
2 - Can I stand to be without the guitar for the months it'll probably take

Now I'm off to definitely NOT let visions of Uber Cool carbon fiber modifications run amok in my head.

Great thread! Thx. :cool:
 
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