[keyshore]

Hi sordid tales,

Welcome to ths wonderful forum.

IMHO the necks joints, bolt on or dovetailed have got no bearing on the sound of the guitar. The guitar sound is dependent on the voicing, bracing, wood selection and the general skill of the builder.

I have a Bourgeois OM which sounds heavenly and has a bolt on neck. Dana Bourgeois has a great system where the neck as well as the fingerboard extension is bolted, so if you unscrew 6 bolts the whole necks comes out and neck resets are a cinch.

some builders have bolt on necks and the fingerboard extentions are glued. Some offer both bolt on and dovetailed. Kevin gallagher is in this category. Some are only into the traditional dovetailed like Jim Olson and my Larrivee.

It depends om how the builder is set up. But to me bolt on necks is the way to go and i have guitars with both methods, there is no difference in sound.

Micheal Baskin, John Ostoff, Tom Doerr, Gerald Sheppard etc are all doing bolt on necks.

I do hope someday everybody shifts to bolt on necks.

Best,

Keyshore