mummi Posted November 16, 2004 Report Share Posted November 16, 2004 I saw this tutorial on 13° necks 13° And was wondering if it would be better to saw the 13° angle instead of gluing peacis of wood togeather? I am going to try and deskibe what I mean with words if that wont work then I shall try and use my paint skills ... What I mean is when you glue the woods togeather cant you have it thick enough so you can saw the head down with the 13 angle? or is that just harder to do and weaker when done??? I have an Ibanez BTB400QM bass and I realy cant see that the neck is built like the tutorial shows. I would think they did it the way I tought was right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DracWell Posted November 16, 2004 Report Share Posted November 16, 2004 (edited) From what I know ppl do both. But when using one whole piece they add a voloute to the underside of the head to strengthen it. Have seen guitars where both have been done though. Just do a search on "scarf joint" and "voloute" in the forum. Edited November 16, 2004 by DracWell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hotrock Posted November 16, 2004 Report Share Posted November 16, 2004 I presume that you mean the headstock angle and not the neck angle. I wouldn't have a 13 degree neck angle, that would be bad . If I'm following you right then: You can do it by just getting bigger wood, marking out the angle and cutting it, but then you would be wasting quite a bit of wood. They are generally cut and glued because it saves wood and is therefore cheaper (it's called a scarf joint by the way). One piece though is actually weaker that cutting and gluing as glue is stronger than wood you also keep the grain inline with the strings by doing a scarf joint which again increases the strength a bit. I've only done it once, with very bad tools, but it wasn't very hard to do as long as you take a bit of time (as with most things) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GuitarMaestro Posted November 16, 2004 Report Share Posted November 16, 2004 Both ways work great. I never do scarf joints because I usually use figured neck woods and with them the joint would look ugly. I simply cut the complete neck with the angled peghead from one piece of wood. As the other people here wrote this is less common because it wastes wood and is therefore more expensive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RGGR Posted November 16, 2004 Report Share Posted November 16, 2004 (edited) When done right, you can get two complete necks out of neck blank. See link for LP example. For Ibanez type neck the necks can be even be closer together. Just get blank little longer than necessary for one neck. Edited November 16, 2004 by RGGR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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