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The ideal fix is to enlarge the existing holes and fill them with hard wood dowels + wood glue, then redrill on top of the dowels. However, you can always try the matchstick method first, and see if the neck is stable. If not you can fall back to doing it the proper way.
I'd use toothpicks instead of matchsticks though as they are at least made from harder wood.
This produces high compression between the new wood and the remnants of the old thread, and a very strong glue bond. If you let the glue dry first or if you drill the holes out and dowel, the screws will be going into uncompressed wood endgrain, which is much weaker.
If you're going to drill out and dowel, you need to use side-cut plugs so the screws are going into that rather than endgrain.
I've used the wet-glue method on dozens of stripped neck screws and it's definitely strong enough - I also once tested various methods to destruction using a scrap neck, and this won.
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I'm going to give ICBM's method a try first as I have wood glue & cocktail sticks to hand.
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