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Seems to me a while back someone posted a tutorial on how to do a v joint instead of a scarf joint. I can't seem to find it. Does anyone remember that and know where I can find it?

Robbie

Is this the one you are after ?

V Joint

That is the one! Thanks!

There are two styles of V joint with strong proponents on both sides.

The first is the Romanillos style in which the V-joint is cut clear through as in the article above. The best description of that is in the American Lutherie number 63, Fall 2000 in which Geza has a step by step with good pictures of each step. It is a better description of the process than the Senseney article on MIMF.

The second style is the Hauser style whch is sometimes refered to as the fussen (are based) or covered v-joint in which the tongue of the V is tapered and fits into a dovetail like pocket which is not sawn all the way through but rather stops about 2mm shy. The way to tell immediately on any V joint guitar (even though there is usually a headplate covering the joint detail) is that to cut the fussen style V joint because the v joint stops 2mm of the surface, the headstock will be 2mm higher and with the headplate almost to the top of the nut.

The covered V Joint is documented very well at http://www.mimf.com/schramm_covered_v-joint.htm . It is a much stronger joint but much less repairable than a through V joint. It is also much harder to make so unless I am building a guitar that is an homage to Hauser and trying to be completely authentic I use a romanillos style open V joint.

Only when I am building a Torres model do I use a scarf joint as Torres did not use a V joint but rather a scarf joint.

Shawn,
Thanks for the info but the link appears to be outdated. Is there another way to find this info?

Go to the MIMF, log in, search the library for 'V-joint'.