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Late 1960s Danelectro Coral Neck:
Needs refurbishment as shown in pics and info here:
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It never ceases to amaze me how much you can read a guitar's history and people that "work on" them.  In this neck's case someone who thought he / she was a decent mechanic and craftsman put new tuners on this neck, and slaughtered the work.  By the nature of the work I can even tell that the person had some depression problems and got mad at not having done good measurements and found someone with a drill press (or made his own) to do the job right.  Each time he / she tried to fit the new tuners on, his / her gouge-reamed holes repeatedly didn't match the tuners (probably metric japanese tuners from pre-mid-1970s);  And the more he / she gouged a little bit more out, the angrier and more aggressive he / she got in the gouging, even to the point of causing a leverage stress crack across the meat between 4 of the tuner holes.  He / she even filled in their bad work with wood putty and STILL had to gouge out some of it too !  The leverage stress crack is on the back of the headstock and doesn't penetrate to the front;  But the yellow arrows below show the meat between the 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th strings without any crack on this side of the headstock;  The next webpage shows the crack.  The crack can be filled with epoxy glue and clamped shut for a good and permanant repair.  Also shown here and on the next page is the gouged out tuner shaft holes of remarkably different sizes, the worst pointed out with the blue arrow, ....and wood putty  around all of the tuner shaft holes, one spot marked with the gold colored arrow.

The holes can be drilled round and dowels pressed in / glued in;  Or epoxy putty made with clear epoxy and saw dust, and used as a putty to fill the original holes for redrilling.  The headstock's wood grain can even be painted onto the dowels or epoxy to hide the reair that will be as good as and even stronger than oriiginal.

I would be delighted to instruct someone in repairing the tuner shaft holes;  It wouldn't be difficult for someone reasonably crafty.  And I would of course do an expert job should someone desire I do the refurbishment of this neck or any portion thereof. 
This neck has excellent frets with very little use.  The string marks on the frets in the pics are from one metal being rubbed off of the strings onto the different metal of the frets, which causes a dielectric staining where the strings metal contacted the frets.  A light fret dressing would make them look new.  Almost all of the string staining is on the lower frets of open chords.
Danelectro made their fretboards from really nice Brazilian Rosewood.
$125
You would think that this neck is yet another saga of a bubba neanderthal living in a cave and using stone tools, who decides to become a custom geetar maker.  Actually, more likely just one of the human beings that have no mechanical nor craftsmanship abilities at all although they think they do and are all too ready to "prove it"; Gotta give them credit for trying .....although I wish they would stick to fixing and "customizing" wheel barrows, scrap lumber and such.

Thank God "bubba" got distracted (hopefully by a wheelbarrow or such) and didn't finish his "craft" on this neck, leaving it still restorable.

It would take a skilled guitar craftsman to refurbish this neck;  And he / she would recognize the tasks at hand.  If you are not a skilled guitar craftsman and need this neck, then please consult with a luthier or skilled guitar repairman to give you a good estimate of how much they would charge to refurbish it.