Amongst many hand builders, the thought is that bolt neck guitars transfer more energy than glued necks do. What you have in bolt neck guitars is a pair of surfaces that are mated together under tension. What you have in a current glued neck is mating surfaces is a pair of surfaces separated by aliphatic glue, and aliphatic glue never dries fully hard. That glue will interfere with energy transfer. That is the theory. Hide glue obviously changes this, but not many are using hide glue these days.
Practically speaking, it will be impossible to hear the difference between a glued neck joint and a good bolt neck joint.
Practically speaking, it will be impossible to hear the difference between a glued neck joint and a good bolt neck joint.
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