Hi everyone!
I'm doing a neck reset on a 1964 Martin D18. Right now, I have the neck off and am trying to carefully cut a slice in between the fingerboard and the dovetail with a hacksaw blade, in order to keep that little hump from forming when I glue the thing back on. The issue is this: that my hand is going to fall off from sawing through the t-shaped metal bar. It looks like Frank has fabricated a flush-cut circular saw to do this job, but I'm lacking the cool metal-working tools he has. In the pics on frets.com, it looks like the saw slices through the bar at the intersection of the "T" (if that makes any sense). This intersection is up off the fingerboard a bit. Should I be aiming my hacksaw blade there, or should I just try to plow through the wide part of the bar flush to the fingerboard, i.e., the top of the "T"? Any advice would be greatly appreciated by my aching fingers.