Aligning a bolt-on neck

Lining up a replacement neck sounds straightforward until a clamp gets in the way of your centre-line check. In this one, we'll walk through a simple trick that solves the problem neatly — useful whether you're fitting a bolt-on neck or even reattaching after a neck reset. From time to time, it’s necessary to install a new neck. Most often, this is for a bolt-on guitar and the neck’s being replaced for preference reasons (feel, look, etc.) or for repair reasons (broken, don’t want to refret, whatever). Of course, sometimes repair reasons can mean a new neck has to be installed onto instruments other than bolt-ons. Reattaching the neck after a neck reset is probably the big one here.When you’re doing this job, it’s absolutely vital to make sure the neck is straight. If it’s not the strings on one side can end up too close to the edge of the fingerboard and make playing uncomfortable or even impossible.You can use a long ruler along the centre-line of the neck. Make sure that…