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maximum glue surface is always good for stability, but short tenons should give plenty. The problem is Gibson designed the short tenon to hide bad fitting joins, they almost gave up on the bottom glue face altogether.
it adds no value to the epi
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A well-fitted, fully-glued short tenon joint will actually be stronger and arguably 'transfer vibration' better than a poorly-fitted long one. It's just another piece of guitar myth, wrongly attributing a characteristic to something you can easily see, rather than correctly to something you can't.
In any case, if you want maximum contact and 'vibration transfer' you want a Junior - they have a much simpler full-width tenon which guarantees a tight glue joint on all three faces.
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In any case, wood-to-wood contact with a Fender isn't necessarily important either. Many sound better with a shim in than with full contact between the pocket and the neck. Some of the gaps in Gibsons make the poor fit of even 1970s Fenders seem like precision engineering, anyway.
And if you really want to confuse the 'vibration transfer' believers, how about this...
http://www.nkforsterguitars.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Rio-Howe-Orme-neck-joint.jpg
That's a Forster acoustic guitar with a neck joint that comprises only three points of contact between the neck and the body - a hook at the bottom and two adjustable wheels at the top.
They sound fantastic, and not very different from a conventional neck joint guitar. Bear in mind this is an *acoustic* guitar too, where transfer of vibration almost certainly matters more than it does on an electric.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein