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This neck-reset jig sets the neck angle according to how high you want the bridge to be. The jig is made of multiple laminations of wood with the laminations perpendicular to the fingerboard surface. The jig is planed true, and the laminations should keep it true. Here's my recipe:
1. I remove the dowel, clean the dowel end & socket.
2. I clamp the neck to the jig with the nut just off the end of the jig. This keeps all frets level with the jig surface. I make sure that the nut and the heel end of the fingerboard are centered on the jig.
3. I re-check the fit of the dowel into the socket and make sure that the wedge is going to fit properly (see #7 below), also check the fit of the heel to the pot. Then I pour enough hot hide glue into the socket so that some will run out when the dowel is inserted.
4. I apply hot glue to the round end of the dowel.
5. I insert the dowel into the socket and slide the pot onto the dowel.
6. Leaving about 1/4" of the dowel showing outside the pot (so that I can make sure the end of the dowel is fully inserted into the socket), I loosely clamp the pot onto the jig, making sure the pot is centered on the jig.
7. I loosen the clamp at the tailpiece end of the jig so that I can insert my calibrated wedge between the pot and the jig. The wedge is calibrated in 1/8" increments. The wedge determines the height of the bridge, thus determining the angle of the neck res-set. This means that you don't have to try to set the neck at a specific angle.
8. I hang the banjo & jig so that the neck points down. This ensures that the glue will stay in the socket and not run out. I let the glue set for a couple of days.
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Playing Since: 1974
Experience Level: Purty Good
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Gender: Male
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Tommy Jarrell, Allen Brothers, Clarence Ashley, Ballard's Branch Bogtrotters, John Baltzell, Barter Young & Smith, Humphrey Bate, Mac Benford, Bentley Boys, Birkhead and Lane, Dad Blackard's Moonshiners, Blue Ridge Highballers, Blue Sky Boys, Bird's Kentucky Corn Crackers, Doc Boggs, Buck Mountain Band, Burnett & Rutherford, Callahan Brothers, Camp Creek Boys, Bob Carlin, Gaither Carlton, Carolina Buddies, Carolina Tar Heels, Carter Brothers & Son, John Carson, Carter family, Carter & Young, Fred Cockerham, John Cohen, Corn Cob Crushers, Grey Craig, Kyle Creed, everyone at Clifftop, Clyde Davenport, Delmore Brothers, Hazel Dickens, Dykes Magic City Trio, East Texas Serenaders, Eck Dunford, Norman Edmonds, John D. Foster, J. P. Fraley, Freeny's Barn Dance Band, Fuzzy Mt String Band, Georgia Yellowhammers, Georgia Wildcats, Ted Gossetts String Band, Grayson & Whittier, Grinnell Giggers, Gray & Nelson, Hale & Derry, Ed Haley, John Hammond, Edden Hammons, John Hartford, Hickory Nuts, Highwoods, Willard Hodgins, Hollow Rock String Band, Tommy Jarrell, Oscar Jenkins, Jimmy Johnson's String Band, Grandpa Jones, Karl & Harty, Alfred Karnes, Buell Kazee, Fiddlin Van Kidwell, Walt Koken, Leake County Revelers, Marty Lebenson, Charlie Lowe, Emmett Lundy, Bascom Lamar Lunsford, McFarland and Gardner, Dave Macon, J. E. Mainer's Mountaineers, Wade Mainer, Marcus Martin, Massey Family, Sam & Kirk McGee, Floyd Ming & Pep Steppers, Monroe Brothers, Byrd Moore, Narmour & Smith, NLCR, Nicholsons Players, North Carolina Cooper Boys, Chubby Parker, Phipps Holiness Quartet, Pickard Family, Charlie Poole, Pope's Arkansas Mountaineers, Dirk Powell, Prairie Ramblers, Price Family Sacred Singers, Obray Ramsey, Reaves White County Ramblers, Red Fox Chasers, Alfred Reed, Henry Reed, Ola Belle Reed, Don Richardson, Rigel's Fountain Citians, Jean Ritchie, Roan Mountain Hilltoppers, Fiddlin Doc Roberts, Art Rosenbaum, Rustical Quality String Band, Rutherford & Foster, John Salyer, Scottdale String Band, Mike Seeger, Shelor Family, Smiths Garage Fiddle Band, Smith's Sacred Singers, Arthur Smith, Walter Smith, Allen Sisson, Kilby Snow, Skillet Lickers, Carl Sprague, South Georgia HIghballers, Southern Melody Boys, Stamps Quartet, Stanley Brothers, Lowe Stokes, Stoneman family, Am Stuart, John W. Summers, Supertones, Taylor's Kentucky Boys, Tennessee Mountaineers, Benny Thomasson, Three Tobacco Tags, Stephen Tucker, Uncle Bud and his Plow Boys, Crockett Ward, Wade Ward, Doc Watson, Weems String Band, Whetstone Run, Whitmire Blue Sky Trio, Chris Wig, Dacosta Woltz, Tommy Jarrell
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Started playing in the 1970's, played banjo & fiddle w/ Rustical Quality String Band (based in central PA) for ~ 15 years, played gigs, dances in PA & Northeast US. Took a long time off from old-time music (raising 2 sons, job, etc.), got back into the music around 2007 after I stumbled across a wonderful old Cole Eclipse at a local auction AND BOY AM I ENJOYING MYSELF AGAIN ! ! ! ! ! ! Currently enjoying collecting & restoring old banjos, also do recreational lapidary & jewelry-making. I'm 5000eclipse on YouTube.