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if you cant do that, inject boiled water repeatedly over a few days. Squirt it in with a syringe, then use the same tool for sucking the dirty water back out. Gently rock it. eventually it will move, its almost there already
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The bad news is that you'll have to spend a lot of time with more hot water cleaning it *all* off before you can successfully re-glue it, since the correct glue - Titebond Original - won't stick to it and if the joint isn't clean it will fail again. If you have doubts about how clean you can get it, I might be inclined to use epoxy, but that's a one-shot solution since if it still doesn't bond properly you're in even deeper trouble...
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Well worth spending the time cleaning out any old glue, whether its original or PVA from a previous repair attempt. I would scrape right back to wood even if it meant having to shim the join for best fit.
The original glue on these does always give way eventually, and the necks tend to be quite easy to remove. I would take strings off and try and push heel back in as a first step, or after the joint has been washed out.
You want to push it back into place, then apply pressure on the heel cap to push the neck up away from the body. It may have simply wedged itself into place now and might come loose as soon as you push the heel back into place
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. I have scraped the residue of the glue and got it sitting at the right angle but not too sure how to Clamp it.
Would a Clamp to the fingerboard to the back do the job?
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like this. either 1 big clamp, or a couple of light duty ones right over the join. You won't need to worry about the extra clamps at the end of the fretboard though
Just make sure you dry clamp everything first as its a 3 handed job sometimes
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I used a clamp with some foam padding to protect to wood.
Just make sure the clamp isn't tearing through that foam and try not to cover the join on teh back as you will need to be able to clean up the squeeze out. If you have one you can put either side, even better, but you should get by with one
what glue are you using?
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Thanks for the advice and will definitely attempted it on a lower price guitar.