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Swedish RCA-4
Well hello! Claes from Sweden here!
Ordered the kit last weekend and picked it up today - that's really impressing!
The kit itself is also impressing, really happy with the quality!
However, when ripping the box up (eager as a child at christmas!) and aiming for what I guess most of you/us do first, ie trying to fit the neck to the body, I stumbled on the first obstacle. They simply don't fit. The neck is about 2mm to wide to fit in the body.
Please help - do I go about sanding the body or the neck joint...? Or both...?
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Hi Longfork,
Welcome to the forum.
Do you have any pictures of the neck and neck pocket?
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Welcome Longfork. It may be as simple as sanding both sides of the neck tenon until it fits, but I'll leave it to the more experienced builders to confirm.
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Ok, guess I'll try that.
I also noticed that the neck is somewhat twisted, or at least it isn't totally straight. The fretboard dives ever so slightly where it's supposed to join the body.
Is this common and something I'll have to live with, or cause for sending it back?
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Not easy to see, but it's there.
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If you think there is a twisted neck don't go any further until you have emailed Adam to see if you are entitled to a replacement as there were some kits recently that arrived like that and yours might be from same shipment?
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I've already been in contact with him, and he replied really fast with great answers to my questions. Since the twist isn't that big and doesn't show really well on the pics (although it's there alright) I'll carry on and see if it works out. If not, Adam would look into replacing the neck.
I'm really impressed by the service, and even though I haven't even started yet, I'm already contemplating what the next project will be! :-)
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Correct me if I am wrong Longfork, but it looks like the high side of the neck channel on the body of the guitar has not been routed properly. It looks like the neck channel is larger at the face of the guitar and gets smaller towards the back of the guitar.
If that is the case, I think the problem is not the neck, but rather the neck channel....
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Sorry, I'm not sure what you mean? Do you refer to the neck not fitting in the body or the neck being twisted?
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The channel in the body where the neck fits (nothing to do with the twist)
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Ah, ok. According to Adam the necks are wider than the outtake in the body from the factory as of recent. I'm not sure if that's a good thing, but I guess that it is better than the other way around.
I'll start sanding the neck this evening. Carefully...
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Thank's, since I don't know what I'm doing, I'll need some luck! ;-)
