Well, just for the record and in case anyone else searches for such a repair. Here is what the headstock looks like for reference:
And the neck joint. Not the most graceful way of pulling it off
It's pretty incredible what they used for a neck block. I really have no idea what it is. It's like total junk wood they found on the shop floor. The big hole you see in it was not a result of getting the neck off. It is in fact probably why it got loose because the one wood screw was 'screwed' into it, basically just screwed into the thin air of the whole. And the top is not even glued to the block, there is about 1mm space there.
It appears that they glued the neck right to the plastic face plate which was weakly glued to the head block. The neck started to pull away and cracked the plastic. So I had to cut the plastic out along the lines of the heal. At taht point the neck practically came right off, no heat required. I think what I am going to do is saw through the screws and remove all the plastic and fill the huge hole and the smaller wood screw hole with a dowel and then just glue the neck to the block. Epoxy will be my friend here. I may use one wood screw through the heal capped off with a dowel and finished off with black lacquer. I'm open to suggestions. What a mess!
So if a moderator would want to move this thread to that forum that might be a better idea.
