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Two things from me today.
First is the stick that I use for neck resets and more specifically to clean up the dovetail, both sides. It's specifically designed to do this task, made out of oak but could be made out of any durable wood. The dips and curves all have functionality to get into the dovetail, both sides and help get that perfect fit or just clean up the mess from the f*ctory first.
I put 120 paper on mine and one piece will last a bunch of resets.
I got the idea from Dave Collins and he got it from Bryan Galloup's school I think. It's always been important to me to attribute things I share to the people who shared them with me.
Next is a simple 1/4 wood dowel 14" long. Perfect for going through the hole in the tail block and plugging it right into a pickup jack and then pulling the whole assembly into the tail block hole. I leave the dowel in until I have the proper amount or jack proud of the tail block and then I thread on the nut and washers and pull the dowel. The only thing you really need to do is cut it to length. 14" is optional your's can be shorter or longer deepening on the body styles you work on. I find 14" does em all so that's what I use.
This is also less dangerous than a metal 1/4 drill bit is you slip and poke the guitar wood is softer.
These are two very simple, cheap to make tools that are used every day in a busy commercial shop. With this said most of what we use we made ourselves because at the time we could not purchase them or we are simply crafty and/or cheap. You decide.
