Neck mishap

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Fernando Esteves
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Neck mishap

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Hello! I've built a guitar to a friend 10 years ago and he told me the neck twisted a bit because of humidity where he lived for a time.

I was routing to emove the fretboard and level, then add a new fretboard and dang happened. I did something that the router made a slightly deeper path on the treble side.

I can put a veneer and sand it to level and it will be level-wise ok, but I'm a bit worried about gluing the fretboard over a patch of veneer.

Do you think it will withstand the force of the strings?
The lower path is in the white line

Thanks a lot
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I think you will be alright patching as you had planned.
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Or just make a new neck. The existing neck already has two serious issues.
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Thanks guys
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I've talked with my friend and we decided to make a new neck from scratch
Thanks for the idea!
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