Re: Neck joint on Martin bowlback?
John, I removed the original fretboard and replaced it with a tapered one on a Martin 00 student model some years back.
Inexplicably, I no longer have the mandolin, for it was very pleasant...nor likely can find photos in the short term.
If my memory serves me well (and it might not) it was a dovetail joint and accessible once the fb was removed, that is, not covered by the top.
Work was very clean throughout the instrument as expected.
An interesting feature on that Martin was a length of thin steel flat stock set into the neck (in the business direction) apparently as some proto stiffening device.
Sure enough, the neck itself wasn't the or the cause of the neck / action issues but a slight bit of overall rotation upward at the entire neck / neckblock / bowl assembly. Neck attachment was muy solid.
Martin reinforced that area of the top north of the soundhole which might have helped prevent this problem from being worse.
I look forward to what you find out from CFM and how the repair proceeds.
Mick
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