Questions tagged [guitar-neck]
The neck is the part of certain string instruments that projects from the main body and is the base of the fingerboard, where the fingers are placed to stop the strings at different pitches.
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Aligning neck with body on an electric guitar
I took apart an old Strat copy, my first guitar. It's actually quite good but it was laying around for a while and now the body seems to have swollen due to humidity. The neck pocket was always way ...
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Length-wise crack in acoustic guitar neck - cause for concern and possible fixes?
I've "inherited" an acoustic guitar between 10 and 15 years of age. It is in very good condition except for a small crack in the neck (see picture). The crack looks like it hasn't occurred ...
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Truss rod and bow issue on electric guitar
So I have this guitar by Halo guitars, it's the Hellfire (might be called the Justifier now) but it's manufactured around 2007/8 and my uncle bought it at a thrift store a long time ago, all was fine ...
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Potential intonation problems by having a 0.5" difference between half scale lengths?
I don't know if this is the right place to ask this but I saw someone ask a similar question here.
I'm assembling a guitar from a body I bought for cheap. Unfortunately, the body won't line up ...
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Neck relief issue, fret buzzing, truss rod loosened to the limit
I pieced together an electric guitar from a DIY kit, after two months I still have a problem with the neck and the truss-rod, when I measure the neck straightness by pressing the first and last fret ...
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My 1980s telecaster neck pickup is louder then usual but the bridge pickup is almost silent even turned all the way up [closed]
My 80s telecasters neck pickup is almost 2x louder then before and the bridge pickup is huming but makes vary little sound when turned all the way up any help
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Why are necks thinner at the nut?
I'm sure this must have been asked before but I'm finding myself incapable of phrasing the search query correctly to find it.
Guitar and bass (and more generally all 'necked' instruments) necks are ...
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Electric guitar neck crack. Worth repairing?
Recently I noticed a crack on the neck of my 20 years old Ibanez RG. I'm not sure how it happened, I never knocked it over and never messed with the truss rod.
Days ago I was switching strings for a ...
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Any difference in playing with C-shaped and flatter neck - Electric Guitars
I am an amateur guitar player and have an old Samick Ls11 electric guitar that has come to its end of life. I plan to buy a new one from something like Jackson brand.
Samick is a cheap Strat imitation,...
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Should a guitar's neck be parallel to the body or at an incline/decline?
I have a guitar here and noticed the neck inclines ever so slightly off the body:
None of my other guitars seem to do this: their necks run parallel with the guitar body. You can see in the image, ...
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How to lubricate truss rod nut?
I got a second hand Dowina accoustic guitar and I found the neck a little bit curved.
So I tried to adjust the truss rod.
The truss rod bolt is visible near the sound hole.
But it was very difficult ...
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Strings keep going out of tune right after tuning up
I changed my guitar strings yesterday and the new ones just don’t hold in tune. After less than a minute they go out of tune and I’ve noticed that my bridge is getting higher and higher as I try to ...
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Bass neck have a crack, following wood lines
First a couple pictures:
I have a bass that has a crack on the neck. It looks like it follows the wood pattern, but since it's so clean, I think it's more glue related.
This happened after transport ...
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Sticker between neck and body on electric guitar
I have a Fender Highway One American strat, and after removing the neck (bolt-on), I found that there are two stickers one the base of the neck where it makes contact with the body. Will this impact ...
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Bass scale length pros and cons [duplicate]
For the last two years I’ve been seriously learning the guitar as my second instrument. I also bought a used low quality bass that I have been playing for the last 6 months or so. I am really enjoying ...
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Putting (almost any) pressure on guitar neck warps sound
I have a 15-year old, el cheapo Dean Evo electric guitar that's been sitting in a non-climate-controlled house for about a year. I pulled it out to play and immediately noticed that putting any ...
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F barre chord on an SG guitar
I began learning guitar on an SG style guitar. Based on the thigh position when seated, or the strap position when standing, I noticed that the neck of the guitar is slightly shifted toward the ...
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Truss rod adjustment had no noticable effect
Today I adjusted the truss rod on my guitar, because the action was quite high and I found it difficult to play. I progressed slowly, and did 1/8 turns, but after each turn I had not noticed anything ...
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tight truss rod
I recently got my hands on a used schecter km6 guitar. It played great, except for that the action was higher than i like it. I checked the relief in the neck (fretted the 1st and 17th fret, measured ...
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Play a scale across the whole neck of the guitar
I have learned all the boxes, of let's say, the major scale.
How do i play this across the whole fretboard?
When people solo, they play a scale across the neck. So how i do this?
Everyone that i know ...
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Acoustic finger tapping [duplicate]
What has to be done to be able to play the acoustic only on the neck with one hand without a pick or fingers in the other hand?
No amps included.
I think that's called finger tapping.
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When adjusting the neck of an acoustic guitar, what bending might be normal?
Recently I bought a second guitar, before I had for almost 8 years just one guitar and did not noticed that its action was quite high. When I took the guitars of others I often wondered that they ...
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Shapes of guitar necks
How to know what shape of a guitar neck should fit your hand?
I've heard that there are four kind of shapes:
C-shape
V-shape
U-shape
D-shape
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Is it possible to upgrade entry level guitar to a professional one?
I have old Ibanez GIO Fat-Strat copy and I somewhat like it (the colour and body shape). The frets are worn and keys (tuning machines) are bad quality. Will replacing whole neck (with keys and nut) ...
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Why are guitar fret boards wider at the 12 fret than at the nut? [duplicate]
Why are fret boards wider near the bridge and taper of when it gets to the nut? Is this the case with most guitars and if so why.
Just for reference I'm referring to this guitar that mentions it is ...
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Standing up acoustic guitar playing position for women
It goes without saying that women typically have different body types than men and this fact often never gets addressed when guitarists are speaking on how to position a guitar when standing up. It ...
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Fret Buzz on specific areas
I have a Jackson Ke5Fr Kelly, I mainly used it on .09 string gauge with standadd tuning but last couple of months it was .10's in Whole-Step Down tuning. Now, I turned back to .09's and standard ...
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Scale length with incorrect bridge position
What would be the issue/effect of having the bridge too far away from the nut on a large fretboard with standard fret sizes? For example, a 24 fret board with 25.5 inch scale fret spacings, but a ...
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Neck is bowed and truss rod cannot be tightened further
I recently noticed a bow in my guitar and that it has been much harder to play than it should be. I tightened the truss rod to bring the string height back down and unfortunately, the string height is ...
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Low B keeps going out of tune
My seven string guitar has a problem. The low B constantly goes out of tune. Whenever I bend it, I immediately have to re tune it. The place I bought it said it was probably the nut but I am not ...
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Why do electric guitars have narrow necks?
It seems that electric guitars (and possibly also acoustic steel-string) have narrower necks than nylon-string ones. The strings are more close together (not sure whether this is the cause or a ...
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Leaving guitar body without the neck
I have a guitar with a tremolo bridge (Ibanez GRG140 to be exact) and my question is if I remove the strings and neck leaving only the body will it degrade the state of the guitar (I intend to install ...
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What are the indicators of a quality electric guitar neck?
I would like to replace the rosewood neck on my Fender American Stratocaster electric guitar with a maple neck. I have difficulty finding such shops locally, and I may resort to buying one (or even ...
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Can a 7/8 scale guitar be detrimental to my playing ability?
I was at the guitar shop today, and fell in love with one of their acoustic guitars (Steelstring, Parlour, with Cutaway). For some reason, I like small guitars.
However, I found out that it only has ...
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What is a Birdseye Maple Neck?
Where does it come from or how is it chosen over regular Maple Necks - is there a tonal difference?
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The skinny on neck constructions. Is it all about tone?
I recently went from a Peavy bolt-on classic bass to Warwick Thumb NT.
The tone difference is completely out of this world, and comparatively, so was the price.
I want to understand the ...