Attaching the Neck (Ep 20 - Acoustic Guitar Build) 

Thank you man I appreciate it! I'm kind of getting sick of guitar building right now and ready for something else... currently planning my next video series project. I'm sure I'll come back to guitar building in a few years though!

Excited to see what you do next!

Thanks man!

Igor Henrique O Adam manda bem. Nice job Adam!

Jarret Fournier just regular titebond... it’s supposed to be able to be heated and removed but that sounds hard... hopefully it’s somebody else’s problem by the time it needs adjustment!

It's all opinion with necks! There was a company called Howe orme in the late 1800s that made guitars with adjustable necks. They are highly sought after and a lot of collectors and builders say they are the best guitars they've played. The neck is held on with a dowel and a hinge! Worth remembering with bolt on necks that when Martin started out the they didn't have the kind of nuts and bolts we have available now. So bolt on necks weren't an option

@oliver kenny yeah in starting to realize all the mysticism involved in making guitars to more I make them lol. A lot of the stuff is subjective, but a few things are set in stone

Lexonn You want a tight fitting neck, so that it does not move around. Butt joints are used on cellos, violins, violas and so on, and have been used in guitar building for centuries. There is no transfer of “tone” from the neck to the body as such, none that I would consider relevant for the “tone” the box is a resonance chamber, but the neck has little vibration. If the neck was producing part of the sound, how do you suppose slide guitars work? The string is not touching the fretboard, in the case of a slide guitar. I’ve build plenty of instruments, some with a Spanish heel, some with a bolt on neck and some with butt joints similar to Adam’s. The loudest, and most resonant, mandolin I’ve ever made, has a butt jointed neck.