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I swear i would tried to tape it but I ran out of it earlier today.

For that matter, I have glued a back with just tape and it worked great.

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"Also, I've never managed to starve a titebond glue joint, although maybe that's because I do most of my clamping with wood cam clamps."

Me either, except a scarf joint on a neck.  I like to use lots of pressure to keep the glue line almost invisble.  Large C-clamp cranked pretty hard.  I had 2 different people at Healdsburg this weekend ask me if I use a 1 piece neck and even when I tried to show them the joints at the scarf and heel, they couldn't see them (the light wasn't great though).  But I've also had a scarf joint come apart in my hands.  Squeeze out all around and no glue in the joint.  Letting it sit a bit before clamping has worked fine since then.

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Rick: do you scarf your headstock onto the 'back' of the neck blank, or 'on top' of the blank (ie, headstock is one piece, scarf is in the neck shaft). If it's the former, I'm not quite getting how/where the plastic alignment bar comes into it all.

I scarf a shaped peghead onto a machine shaped shaft. So the peghead goes on top.   It's a system that I set up around the use of a pin router for making parts, and it's incredibly efficient as I can machine shape the neck shaft, then cut the scarf; machine a nearly complete peghead; glue it on, and then there's minimal carving to do in the hand stop area.   

Someday I'll figure out where to stick photos so I can post them.

Rick see the 2 green trees above? The first one will allow you to enter a url to your pictures and the second one with the upward arrow will upload pic's from a directory on your PC.

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I use hide glue for this process.
Mainly because of its low slippage value.
I lock the neck to the workbench with clamps, using a square to make sure the neck is square to the workbench.
Dry fit the peg head and place clamps on the bench as slippage stops at both the headstock and heel end.
Peghead on mine goes onto the back of the neck, using lots of glue so as to not starve the joint.
Using silicon baking paper to stop the thing sticking to everythng else.
Once the glue has set a little I use one cam clamp on the joint just to keep things in place while it cures.
I like the cam clamps for the actual joint clamping because of their low torquing action -- less torque = less slippage.

Heres some pics:




Cheers
Claire