Hendrix said:
talk about Stradivarius, his violin is the most expensive music instruments , proven its holy grail of craftsmanship .
Even after the most convenient method of modern instrumental analysis by the most professional scientist, none can duplicate it.
http://www.rsc.org/education/EiC/issues/2005July/violins.asp
http://flatrock.org.nz/topics/society_culture/fiddling_around_the_lab.htm
http://www.answers.com/topic/violin
key secret recipes is on it's varnishing and glue joint .
that mean , if two Guitar has same pickups and wood etc, the difference between a great music instruments and a poor one, is how well their wood joint together and how good they finishing is.
this thread is ridiculous.
who cares about the theories of if glue sounds as good as mechanical joints or not. the question was about gluing a bolt on neck. but it's just not structurally sound. carpenters and intrument makers know this. you may try it and it may work but no factory will risk it on large scale production because some may be fine and others may fail...
now onto the strads... the serets of the Stradivarius violins is not the glue. it's the old growth lumber which is ever increasingly rare, when the trees were fell, and storage in water before they were milled. some types of lumber can have either open or closed grains depending on the season they are fell and storage in water keeps the pores open. water sources were often used to float lumber to a mill. if stored long enough microbes eat the sap and soft material.
if you look up timeless timber they recover sunken old growth lumber left over from the 1800's that they sell for luxury flooring and if the species is right, musical instruments. when a violin was constructed with this lumber using the same tecniques as stradivarius the tone was said to be superior to the original! there was a guitar builder that used this lumber who had some variation on a double cut strat style and when i was in japan i also found a strat clone manufactured locally with a timeless timber branding on the headstock. if i had the cash i would have had one built but maybe more because of the uniqueness.
so yeah material matters and glue may sound ok but what does that have to do with it being a good idea? you seem set on the idea so do it but don't expect anyone to want to buy it!!.
still MOST of the "tone" in a solid body guitar, especially one with magnetic pickups. does come from the electrical resonant properties of the circuit from the pickups, to the pot values, to the cap, to the cable, to the amp input stage. by the time you record an amplified electromagnetic pickup solidbody guitar and play it back i'll be damned if you can identify the construction material, nevermind the neck joint.... not that there isn't a difference, but it is not as significant without thin sections designed to emit sound. all you will know is weather it sounds good or bad, i am sure you won't be able to identify how it was built....
the problem people have when they join here is they expect us all to be cork sniffers like the other guitar forums. if you want to get a nice headphone amp and audiophile headphones or a great set of monitors, then have some people do some high sample rate recordings and do some a/b a/b b/a listening sessions go for it. but many of us are not into believing things because the beliefs are just common things to believe around here...
bottom line is pickups, intonation, nut/saddle geometry, structural soundness, and playability are essential much more important than material and construction debates. if you have the essentials it will be a great instrument no matter what the parts are and how they are stuck together.
