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I’ve come across several Takamine lawsuit guitars needing neck resets. These lawsuit guitars are from the 1980’s and are basically a copy of a Martin.

Pictured below is a 12-string Takamine that came in for a neck reset. After several hours using heat rods at the 15th fret all of the the wooden dowels would not release. My solution was to take a putty knife with a sharpened edge and using a hammer slice the dowels at the joint. As you can see this guitar had 5 dowels.

I’ve also come across a Takamine 3/4 scale budget guitar needing a neck reset. In the case of the 3/4 scale guitar I was able to use heat rods and pull the neck free within 15 minutes. The 3/4 scale guitar used only 3 dowels that were placed along the centerline of the neck block.

These necks were then converted to a bolt-on with threaded inserts. Also, be aware when drilling holes at the 15th fret, that these guitars use a Martin style truss rod, which is a steel rod inserted into an aluminum channel making the truss rod itself almost 3 times wider than a typical guitar.

Good Luck.