Bad idea even if you COULD get a Jem neck. Because the Jem neck has 24 frets and the JS has 22, they're different lengths. They're not designed to be interchangable.

 

yeah you wouldnt be able to do it as intonation would be impossible due to the different scale length , sorry man

 

The crack is confined only to the area near the nut, right? If so, based on those pics it looks like it may be repairable. Check out Rich's tutorial at ibanezrules.com.

 

ok the feedback/ideas has been welcome from everyone....



It does extend up towards the tuners slightly as you can see in the pics although the length of the split is not highlighted so well in the pictures. It's also split in three places (by the middle of the holes, top & below each hole)

I checked out that great tutorial on a split neck repair and it looks like I may be able to do this, it's worth a shot at least....

I have one question with repairing this, Would I have much problems putting the neck back on the the body again? I guess I will have to get the truss rod all set up correct plus all the intonation setup can get tricky....

With the Jem neck question, well I will have to forget that, it was just an idea.

My plan now after thinking about it is to try to fix it first and if that doesn't work too well then I will try to see if I can get hold of a neck on eb or maybe try to sell it this like it is as "needing repair" - I would most likely take out the dimarzios for my next guitar though...

 

based on the pics very much repairable with actually not very much effort and evven less tools

 

+1

Regards

André

 

Ouch, what happened?

 

I'm not even sure, I do remember bumping it against a wall a few months ago so maybe it was that but I never noticed it until recently (about 3 weeks ago). Maybe it was just from the changing weather patterns here in Aussie?

I have been reading some other threads like this one here, it seems some people replace this neck if they want to improve it so maybe looking at another neck like the one used in the js1000 or an aanj neck ( I have no idea what this is yet) could be an option if the repair job doesn't work.

 

It really is too bad you can't just buy a neck from Ibanez direct without having to send the core.

Jimmy

 

I have a JS1000 neck off a new guitar where the nut screw broke off in it. I've Dremmeled it mostly out but it still needs a little attention, in fact I'd have it thru drilled for a regular nut. In case you need.