Well as mentioned in another thread, this fella is in the process of being reimagined.
The DT clear body had turned sticky in patches, Electrics had got a bit hinky and the decision to leave the fretboard uncoated had resulted in it looking tatty.


After what seemed like a brief eternity, using at first sand paper then Chem stripper then sand paper then a wire brush then rougher sand paper, then finally resorting to card scrapers, we managed to rid the body of the horrid tacky mess that the DT had become.
Mod list
- As shown above, a belly cut and arm cut.
- drilled out and doweled neck screw holes
- doweled neck screw holes in the body
- bored out and filled the jack socket hole ( jack was off Center)
- doweled mount recesses for the Hannes bridge
- neck heel reshaped to match the new body socket profile below.



The plan was to use stainless threaded inserts in the neck heel and Flat headed furniture screws to mount the neck.

All was going swimmingly…..until it wasn’t.

I’d followed a three step drilling process to mount the inserts
- step 1, 12mm drill in marked mounting points 4 mm deep for flared end of insert.
- step 2, 3mm drill into Center 12 mm deep to provide on Center guide hole
- step 3, work up in mm increments to 9.5mm to open hole out to the required diameter for the stainless inserts.

On the last hole, after drilling everything, and mounting the insert, I’d realised that I hadn’t gone quite deep enough in the 12mm drill to start with. I backed out the insert and proceeded to try and deepen the recess of the hole some more, and the neck decided it didn’t want to play this game.






This is a great shame as the neck reshaping had gone so well to this point. I’d thinned the neck somewhat, and spent a great deal of time and patience modifying the heel and blending the transition.
I’ve yanked frets 15 through 21, spread glue through the breaks and clamped the hell out of it to see if it can be salvaged. If that works, then with some other fettling it may prove okay.
If not, then I’ll salvage the truss rod and make a new neck from scratch.

Bit of a bummer but it’s all a learning experience.


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