In the middle of a Hofner neck reset, neck came off just fine. However the previous owner had a home gamer repair to the fingerboard extension in an effort to try to keep the neck from pitching forward. When he did this it caused the fingerboard extension to become horribly ski-ramped. It's really tough to photograph it but hopefully you can get an idea from these pics. I would like some input from you experienced guys (Hesh that means you
) on the way to approach this.This little piece of plywood was pushing the extension into an extreme ski ramp as the neck moved over time. He had just shoved it under there to try to stop the neck from moving. Sadly it did more damage than good.
Fixing this is complicated by the fact that it is scarfjointed under the fingerboard. My thoughts are as follows
1. 50/50 approach. Remove frets, level extension down a bit, refret, and level frets on the extension to make up difference. The ramp is so drastic that if I leveled it all out solely on the fingerboard, there'd be barely a sliver left of the fingerboard at the end. Doing half of the level on the board would let me make up the difference in the fret height. This is the easiest option.
2. Remove fingerboard, steam out the extension support, reglue, install partial carbon fiber rod to straighten extension. This would hold the extension straight but would also push out the repair completion date by a good amount of time.
And just fyi, this is a "blank check" sort of repair, he's not concerned with price. Extreme sentimental value is the only reason I agreed to do it.
Any ideas are welcome, hopefully it's visible in the pictures what's going on.
