hello everyone Mike here with my Carbon CT 620 for a couple of weeks ago I noticed that on the back of the neck there was a little dent and it didn't bother me at first but when I started playing it I kind of felt it every time my hand was up around the sixth fret and see if I can show it to you here here's the dent it's kind of an l-shaped affair kind of goes across here and then comes back a little bit it's kind of hard to see you know but again it's right there in the middle of the neck now fortunately the debt did not tear the wood fibers the other fortunate aspect is that this is a tongue oiled neck which means that there's no finish on the neck other than it was just sanded and coats of tung oil were applied so according to carbon this should steam right out so before I attempted this on the real guitar I did some reading on the internet and they basically selected or suggested two different methods one of them was just to use a soldering iron and then to apply heat with a moist rag directly to the dent and then the other way was a little bit more general it was just basically using a standard house iron same methodology you take either paper towel or a piece of fabric that's moistened and you apply it just to the dent and the steam goes out swells the fibers and makes the wood whole again where you can then lightly sand it and reel it so here's my my test victims I didn't have any mahogany that's what the neck is made of so I found a couple of boards just for a test down in the shop and I have a piece of pine a really soft wood and I have a piece of cherry so what I did was I basically took a nail and I bent the nail and basically just took a hammer and whacked it to put these dents in the wood the debts that are not circled here are the before it's and then the ones I've circled are the after dents I had varying success I think one of the most successful ones using the soldering iron was right here where I applied direct heat to the cherry and I think you can see the before and after there's still a little bit of an indentation in the circled area to the right but I mean I whacked it pretty hard so this dent is a lot more severe than what's actually on the neck of the guitar and I also thought very successful was the use of the iron the one that's double circled was a two nice deep dents and I used the iron which applied a broader area of heat I'm going to give it a try with the iron first and if that doesn't get the dent out to my satisfaction maybe we'll you know move on to more drastic measures I have my iron heating up I have it turned all the way up to the linen setting and what I'm going to use is I have a spray bottle with water and I also have a piece of it's kind of like a denim there's no dye in it's just like a cotton 100% cotton piece of fabric and I'm going to end up saturating this with water from the sprayer and we'll just put it right over there and hit it with the iron let the steam get in there and then we'll just double check it and hit it a few times and hopefully swell up the fibers of the dent and it will take it from there just going to get some water into the cloth before we get started I have another piece of fabric here I'm just going to wipe off any overspray just so I can see the dent better I'm just going to add just a little bit of water right on the wood okay all right let's give this a try add a little bit more water wow this is pretty cool I got to tell you folks it is coming out very excited just a little bit there let's wipe that off wow this is like some kind of wizardry I can barely see it that's a good sign sweet okay let's take a look at the final repair I'm very pleased well that just looks terrific you know I was second-guessing my decision to get the tung oil as a finish on the neck and on the carbon boards everybody swears by it I mean there's a lot of faithful to the tung oil and it's true it does provide a very very nice feel nice tactile feel you know with your hand against the neck and it's it's just so nice to be able to feel the grain of the wood but they do a great job finishing it and I loved it until I got that bump and then I started thinking well if I had the gloss or if I had the satin would it have protected the the neck and maybe yes it may have protected it a little bit more but honestly if this was a either a glossed or matte finished neck it would not have been as easy just now to remove that dent stop worrying about that side of the guitar and give this the guitar more attention