How is neck attached on Samick mandolin?
This is a kind of recycling project. I intend to remove a bendy bad-grain neck from an arch-top A-model Samick 'greg bennett' mandolin, and make it a new, slightly longer neck and fingerboard for 15 inch scale and C or D tuning. No special deal, just a quick and cheap way of getting a long-scale travel mandolin that I don't have to worry about. ( I have two beautiful mandolas, but I wouldn't risk taking either of them to a beach BBQ.) Rather short of treble as a mandolin, but this particular body seems to work quite well for a dropped tuning. It has the typical heat-pressed solid top with one big tone bar
along the centre line.
OK, so I got the old fingerboard off easily, and I have no problem with razor-sawing through the finish all around the neck joint to minimise the risk of chipping.
Presently the wooden ramp which supported the fingerboard extension is still in place, so I can't see if there is any kind of neck joint tenon hidden underneath.
Before I dig any deeper, does anyone know how the neck is fitted to the body on this model of mandolin?. Is it esentially a glued butt joint? And if so, is it epoxy, or with something I can soften with moist heat? If there is a tenon, I'd prefer to inject steam and take it apart, but if it's an epoxied butt joint with a couple of dowels, then I may as well leave the fingerboard support ramp in place, and simply saw through the glue line between neck and body. Has anyone ever seen inside this model of neck joint?
along the centre line.
OK, so I got the old fingerboard off easily, and I have no problem with razor-sawing through the finish all around the neck joint to minimise the risk of chipping.
Presently the wooden ramp which supported the fingerboard extension is still in place, so I can't see if there is any kind of neck joint tenon hidden underneath.
Before I dig any deeper, does anyone know how the neck is fitted to the body on this model of mandolin?. Is it esentially a glued butt joint? And if so, is it epoxy, or with something I can soften with moist heat? If there is a tenon, I'd prefer to inject steam and take it apart, but if it's an epoxied butt joint with a couple of dowels, then I may as well leave the fingerboard support ramp in place, and simply saw through the glue line between neck and body. Has anyone ever seen inside this model of neck joint?
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