Making the Visible Invisible - Repairing a Japanese Fender Headstock

Japanese Fender Stratocaster with an shattered headstock/neck break gets repaired with tips on how to make the visible repair invisible. *Common Questions Asked in the comments* *Why didn’t you just replace the neck?* Leo Fender originally designed his guitars Telecaster and Stratocaster) to have easily replaceable parts. If the neck is damaged, replace it with a new neck. What he could never have envisioned was the vintage market and the “Originality“ factor associated with an instruments worth. *Did you consider a Kintsugi type repair?* No, but it would be cool. *How did this happen!?* This guitar fell forward onto its headstock and the high E tuner took the first impact (as you can see by the washer being completely pushed in. The crack follows the base of the tuner washers up to around the 4th fret. *Why not use carpenters glue instead of epoxy?* I wanted/needed the 20 min open time of the slow cure epoxy. Clamping it all at once was a tricky th