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Topic: Full wooden neck? |
Duane Reese
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Posted 30 May 2020 9:26 am |
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I think every wooden-necked guitar I've ever seen has the neck stop just before the pickup area; the lines continue on down as part of the aluminum changer piece.
You know...basic stuff here.
Now as for aluminum necks, I think that on just about all of those I've ever seen, the neck is fully one piece, all the way down and covers up the hardware that mounts the changer.
So here's the question: who has ever mad a wooden neck that extends all the way down like the common aluminum neck? Any wrap-arounds? I would expect that there wouldn't be any parts of it that would go as thin as that aluminum Emmons neck you see above. Builders would probably tell you that cracking or complexity is why they don't do it. Nonetheless, somebody has to have done it somewhere, but I just don't think I've ever seen it. |
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Ron Funk
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Ballwin, Missouri
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Posted 30 May 2020 9:52 am
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Duane
Even though 'each changer' is a mechanism unto itself,
Stability for the Changer's mounting onto the steel may be the reason we don't see any wooden necks totally encompassing the changer mechanism
But I'm no expert -
Ron |
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Duane Reese
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Posted 30 May 2020 10:28 am
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I thought about that too, but if that had anything to do with it, then you would see aluminum necks discontinuing at the same spot; what you usually see instead are some extending "feet" that cant out from the changer, and sometimes integrate mounting for the pickups. That's less of a mechanical connection than what a wooden neck guitar usually has...
🤔 Hey, you know, I remember a thread from several years ago talking about the tonal differences between wooden and aluminum necks, and I think there was some discussion about how much neck material area contacts the deck of the guitar, but I don't remember if there was much discussion about the differences in how the changers mounted...
But that's neither here nor there. What I'm wondering about is if anyone has ever tried it with a full wooden neck. |
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Ian Worley
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Sacramento, CA
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Posted 30 May 2020 11:20 am
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Sho-Bud from ~'67 through early '71
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Duane Reese
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Posted 30 May 2020 11:57 am
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There we go. Wait – I have seen those before! Okay, false alarm. Sorry.
Please close the thread. Thanks! |
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Ricky Davis
From:
Bertram, Texas USA
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Posted 30 May 2020 7:13 pm
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Yes BUT two different vibrating sounds; between a wood neck wraparound the Changer; or the wood neck up to the Metal Tailpiece.
The wood neck; wraps around a changer and axle in a bracket that is mounted directly to the Top of the Wood deck.
The wood neck stopping at the Aluminum/metal tailpiece...well the changer/axle is mounted IN That tailpiece and that tail piece is mounted to the wood deck.
Those are two completely different changer mountings and therefore the strings are vibrating two different ways through what the axle is running through and what it's made out of and how and what is it mounted to and on from there.
I prefer Aluminum/Metal Tail piece...my ears hear a much clearer overall sound and more sustain...yeeeehaaaa.
Ricky
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Bill Duncan
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Lenoir, North Carolina, USA
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Posted 31 May 2020 7:26 am
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| My D10 MSA has wooden necks and the changer mounts half on the wood of the neck and half on aluminum. I don't know if it makes any difference in the sound coming from the amp due to magnetic pickups. But, the player may be able to hear some difference being so close to the acoustics of the instrument. |
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