Once done properly, this is as strong as the original joint and is a good fix for worn out screw holes (NOT toothpicks) This involves drilling the holes to a standard hardwood dowel size and gluing the dowel into the holes and drilling the new screw holes into these hardwood plugs.
I got the broken screws out with some scrap tubing I keep just for this occasion and after being removed (along with the glue) the holes are drilled and doweled like a normal "plug job". None of these methods work as well as a proper repair and this job just got more time consuming. I've also seen these type of guitars with the whole neck glued in including the screws.
The neck screws were glued in in an attempt to stop the neck from moving around. I've seen this happen when the screws get old and rusty when the guitar has been in very humid conditions for years and I've seen this happen before. With the bridge marked and ready to fit the plugs it was time to take off the neck and get the angle sorted for the new bridge height. I wanted to use the old original bridge if possible so I used some Tune-o-matic style adjusters and fitted them to the body in the correct place for alignment and intonation. So it was time to sort out a new bridge anchoring and adjustment system. This was not enough to get the action down low enough to play and there was nothing to anchor the bridge in place. The bridge had been stripped and the base plate and adjustments were all gone in a futile effort to get the action down lower. For starters the neck angle was all wrong. This guitar had some real issues, some obvious, some not. The hollow body and F holes really set this shape off nicely and the archtop, when it catches the light really shows off the beauty well. The slightly offset body shape is reminiscent of the Jag and Jazzmaster but as with lots of these Japanese beauties,just a little skewed. So this one came in completely unplayable but the owner knew he had a good guitar and wanted it playable. These brands quickly got to the point of design for aesthetics rather than just conforming. In some cases they far surpassed their bigger brothers, certainly in terms of innovation and design. For years they were written off as "cheap and nasty" Asian imports trying to compete with the big US brands.
I do have a real soft spot for these old Teiscos and Guyatones.
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