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While more of a repair topic i put it in here as more folks would likely see it. Please move this if appropriate Lance.

A question that comes up a lot is whether you can re-set the neck on XXXX brand guitar? And a lot of times that brand happens to be Yamaha. So I wrote up a small article on the topic and explain how to know if a neck joint will come apart well or not on virtually any guitar. I also outline my neck removal procedure. Hope this helps some of you.
https://howardguitars.blogspot.com/2018 ... uitar.html

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Brian

You never know what you are capable of until you actually try.

https://www.howardguitarsdelaware.com/

Always good info, Brian.

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"Act your age, not your shoe size" - Prince

Just to add to this nice article by Brian, this website is chock full of info on the old Yami's including neck reset procedures as well. It is definitely useful to have this info out there and I'm sure people will come across it in the future as so many of these old guitars are in need:

http://yamahavintagefg.com/

Thanks Brian. I tried to do a reset on my '69 F-150 (my very first guitar, purchased new when I was in college) and couldn't get the neck off so I did the bolt on conversion. I don't remember if its finished inside, I need to go back and look.

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The name catgut is confusing. There are two explanations for the mix up.

Catgut is an abbreviation of the word cattle gut. Gut strings are made from sheep or goat intestines, in the past even from horse, mule or donkey intestines.

Otherwise it could be from the word kitgut or kitstring. Kit meant fiddle, not kitten.