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This JJ Hucke Antarctica model has neck-thru construction with no discernible heel. This greatly facilitates high fret access. The neck is flamed Maple & Purpleheart while the wings are Poplar.
Two headless .strandberg* Bod Plini model guitars with differing construction methods. On the left is neck-through construction with a quatersawn Roasted Maple neck and Swamp Ash wings. On the right is chamfered bolt-on quatersawn Mahogany neck and Mahogany body. Both necks have carbon reinforcemt strips.
Neck Through Body Conjoined Electric Guitar Left Right Handed For Oem Guitar
Neck-through-body (commonly neck-thru or neck-through) is a method of electric guitar construction that combines the instrumt's neck and core of its body into a single unit. This may be made of a solid piece of wood, or two or more laminated together. The strings, nut, fretboard, pickups and bridge are all mounted on it, with additional body side componts (if any) filling out its full shape glued or mechanically attached are referred to as wings. The technique is also used on electric bass guitars.
Neck-through-body construction is considerably more expsive than the traditional glued set-in neck and bolt-on neck style construction methods. However, it's less costly than the very rare and difficult one-piece fabrication out of an tire instrumt fabricated out of a single piece of material.
The Log, a prototype solid-body guitar built by Les Paul in 1941, can be considered as a forerunner of neck-through designed instrumt. Les Paul built the model using a recycled 4x4 fce post as the neck and body core, and mounted the disassembled parts of an Epiphone and Gibson archtop guitar onto it.
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Neck-through construction on Ibanez Studio guitar. Despite its construction it still has a bulky heel, with little or no chamfering, greatly negating the more costly construction.
In 1956 Rickbacker was one of the first guitar manufacturers to use the modern variant of this technique, although this was originally restricted exclusively to semi-hollowbody guitars.
The most important befit for the player of a neck-thru guitar is the reduction in heel mass which is an obstacle wh attempting to reach the higher registers of the fretboard. Neck-through construction allows easier access to higher frets because there is no need for a bulky heel — the thicked area of the neck where it attached to the body. Wh constructing a neck-through guitar the luthier can chamfer the heel to a minimum, sometimes almost relieving the heel tirely, allowing unhindered access to the upper registers.
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Assert that neck-through construction provides greater sustain, richer overtones and allows the instrumt to stay in tune longer due to the increased stability inhert in the design. Esstially, both ds of the string are tied down to the same piece of wood that runs the lgth of the instrumt, so all the strings ergy's running across the tire instrumt, with no join to limit or filter the string's harmonic production.
Repairs to the neck are usually expsive and tedious. In many cases, it is usually easier to remove the old neck completely, either by taking the wings off and putting an tirely new core in, or by converting the guitar to a bolt-on or set-neck by creating a heel and affixing the new neck to the core already in place, rather than to try to repair the neck itself.
This structure is used by many companies, including Parker Guitars, BC Rich, Yamaha, Cort Guitars, Ibanez (primarily on basses), Jackson, Alembic, Schecter, Carvin, ESP Guitars, and Rickbacker.
Custom Quilted Maple Top Neck Through Body In Purple Set Thru Neck Electric Guitar With Emg Pickups
The construction method is also popular with indepdt guitar builders, who can typically devote more time to such a labor-intsive neck joint than a mass-producing company could.When you come to build your own guitar, many considerations of production guitars are not really relevant. When making a custom hand-built guitar and when treating the whole project as a hobby, a few more hours of work are not really considered a problem, maybe it’s a benefit. You have probably seen, heard or maybe played a ‘Neck Through’ guitar and thought to yourself: Should I use this feature on my build? what will the benefits be for me? Is it harder to build?
A ‘Neck Through’ guitar is built around the idea is that the neck and the center of the guitar’s body are made from the same piece of lumber or laminate so there is no ‘connection’ between the two. Neck Through or ‘Neck Thru’ guitars are said to be stiffer and more warp resistant than other types of necks and have better sustain. They will also allow for designs which allow easier access to the very high note frets. We’ll take a look at all these claims and try and understand the pros and cons of having a through neck in your guitar. Are these claims true or just subjective impressions? Is it harder to construct or would actually make life easier for the aspiring guitar builder?
Before we go into the ins and outs of the neck through constructed guitar, we will want to understand a bit more about necks in general and the elusive sustain many are chasing after. Most production guitars are made with more conventional neck and still offer great sound and playability, so what is the difference and what makes that difference.
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Disclaimer: As much as I am trying to stick to facts and scientific evidence, it is very hard to pinpoint sustain or any other qualities given to sound to one or other particular factor. Different guitars will sound different for a multitude of reasons, including the materials used, the type of wood, the thickness of the strings, the scale length and the pickups. It is almost impossible to isolate just one factor and objectively define it. On top of that the differences may be very real and objective but may have such a slight effect, most people will not even notice.
The two most common types of neck are the bolt on, invented and most common in Fender style guitars, and the ‘Set Neck’ which are represented in most Gibson and PRS guitars.
Bolt-on Necks became common with the popularity of Fender guitar in the late 50’s. They offer great manufacturing and repair advantages and can easily be attached and removed. It is also efficient in the amount of lumbar needed and gives great strength and stability if proper quarter sawn wood such as maple is used. Their tone is often described as ‘chimey’ and is considered very clean and crisp (maybe it’s the maple?)
Neck Through Guitar Vs. Bolt On Vs. Set Neck
Set- Necks differ from the bolt on ones in that they will usually have a larger and thicker heel and sometimes a dove-tail connection. This will give it larger contact area which will make for stronger gluing and supposedly better tonal transfer. Gibson guitar who are known for such necks traditionally use mahogany and are characterized by a somewhat thicker sound than the bolt-on necks. (Maybe it’s the mahogany?)
In both Bolt-on or set Necks it is said that the sustain is hindered by either the thin film of glue or the screwed connection which will disrupt the smooth transference of the vibrations from the neck to the body. A one piece, or even a laminated ‘Neck Through’ (the strips are running lengthwise) should be the remedy for that.
The ‘Neck Through’ guitar is built around a long neck which extends through the body. It may be built from one piece of lumber or a laminated one but in any case, will form one uninterrupted unit which will have the bridge, the pickups the frets, the nut and the headstock.
A Concept Tele Neck Through.
If you consider the neck heel connection the soft spot of the guitar than yes, a ‘Neck Through’ design will be stronger. It will add to the overall rigidity of the guitar, which may be the reason it is popular with the longer, bass guitars. Having said that you do need to consider that a properly glued neck is probably strongest in that area and even a bolt on is plenty strong for accidental falls. If you are thrashing it around on stage trying to break it on purpose, that’s a different story… The quality of the wood you are using will likely have as much as or even more of an effect to the strength.
Since guitars will rarely warp on the body side and it will be more evident on the neck, a bolt on or a ‘Neck Through’ design made from the same piece of lumber should warp similarly. A more warp resistant design, if that is your concern, would include a laminated neck, regardless of the type of neck used. Read more about laminated necks in Astound yourself with a Multi Laminated Neck
Intuitively, it makes sense that an uninterrupted piece of wood would carry the vibrations along its grain better and resonate the sustain longer.
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Density. The higher the density, and usually weight, of the wood the better it will resonate the frequencies which make the sound and the sustain. Putting two pieces of wood, whether bolted
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