CONFESSIONS OF A LUTHIER
If you are the owner of an acoustic guitar, the words you never want to hear your luthier utter are ‘neck reset’. These days innovative bolt-on neck designs have become commonplace, but most decades-old handmade acoustics are likely to have traditional dovetailed joins, combining tight-fitting joinery with the power of glue to withstand a lifetime on the road.
A neck reset is normally the course of action required when
