Travel guitar demonstrates neck resets

Neck resets can be tricky to explain in the abstract, but a travel guitar that came in for a setup this week provides a really clear illustration of what's actually happening — and why it needs to happen. Worth a look even if you've covered this ground before. I’m taking a little step into the past this week and discussing something we’ve talked about before. However, an instrument that I was asked to set up has provided me with a really nice illustration on the subject of neck resets and I thought it’d be good to revisit why it’s often necessary to perform a neck reset on a guitar.A customer left their ​Journey Overhead​ travel guitar with me. In order to make something easy and (relatively) more safe to travel with, the folks at Journey designed the guitar with a removable neck. They’ve come up with a quite clever attachment system and it seems to work quite well and hold quite securely. There’s a little spring-loaded notched bar that handles the initial ‘grabbing’ when you attach…