BigTube Posted February 21, 2005 Report Share Posted February 21, 2005 Hi I'm thinking about purchasing a evh style guitar body, but need to know what scale neck it will need. Thought you guys could help out. The real question is will a 25.5 scale strat neck work? Here is the body with measurements, so you can determine for me... Thanks, Greg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jnewman Posted February 21, 2005 Report Share Posted February 21, 2005 Hi I'm thinking about purchasing a evh style guitar body, but need to know what scale neck it will need. Thought you guys could help out. The real question is will a 25.5 scale strat neck work? Here is the body with measurements, so you can determine for me... Thanks, Greg ← Looking at Charvel, who makes EVH signature guitars or whatever you'd like to call them, a normal EVH is a 22 fret 25.5" scale neck that looks almost exactly like a fender neck to me. That said, on my stock actually Fender strat, which I just measured, it is close enough to exactly seven inches from the heel of the neck pocket to the trem mount screws as makes no difference, while the body you posted a picture of is only about five and a half inches - which is confusing. On two 22-fret 25.5" scale guitars, that large a difference shouldn't be there. Are you sure the body you measured is a completely standard EVH body? Please note, I've never actually used EVH bodies, but going by my strat and the picture you posted, there seems to be something wrong and I'm not sure why. Did that EVH body you took the picture of have a 24 fret neck? I guess that might explain the shorter difference between the neck pocket and bridge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigTube Posted February 22, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 22, 2005 Thanks for the reply! To clear some stuff up, I'd just like to say that the guitar is NOT one of the new EVH art series or whatever. It's made from some old 24 fret charvel guitar. This is why I was clueless as to wether my neck would work, i guess not. So, what scale neck (24 fret) would I need to make this work? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jnewman Posted February 22, 2005 Report Share Posted February 22, 2005 (edited) Thanks for the reply! To clear some stuff up, I'd just like to say that the guitar is NOT one of the new EVH art series or whatever. It's made from some old 24 fret charvel guitar. This is why I was clueless as to wether my neck would work, i guess not. So, what scale neck (24 fret) would I need to make this work? ← Woohoo! I got it right! Is it that specific body you're trying to get a neck for? If so, I *think* you'd just need a 24 fret 25.5" scale neck, as that was most likely a 25.5" scale guitar to begin with (all of Charvel's current guitars are 25.5", and a lot of companies just stick to one fret length except in special cases). Normal stock Fender necks are 22 frets, so that wouldn't work, but you can get 24 fret 25.5" scale necks no problem. Two things: First, you might run in to problems with the body's neck pocket fitting the new neck - you might have to sand out the pocket or sand down the neck if the new neck's larger than the pocket, or shim the pocket up to make it smaller and then carve it out to fit the new neck if the new neck's smaller than the pocket. Second, the new 25.5"/24 fret neck might not be exactly the right length, and you might have to plug the bridge holes with dowel and redrill a touch forward or back to get the scale exactly right (which, I suppose, isn't VITALLY important to do, but scale length effects guitar tone so if you're trying to stick with an EVH sound you should try to stick as close to 25.5" as possible). I can't imagine it would be more than a half inch, and wouldn't expect it to be more than a quarter inch, but I'm not really an expert. The floyd rose trem EVH's are supposed to have actually might be adjustible enough for it not to matter - you basically want 25.5" from the nut to the high-E saddle, with about an eighth of an inch or so of play to move the other saddles away from the neck. I guess you could also sand out the neck pocket a little more toward the bridge or shim the neck pocket to move the neck away from the bridge and drill new mount holes in the body to fix the problem without moving the bridge. This might be better as it'd keep the pickup positions correct. Please note, I'm not saying these things will be necessary, just that they could be. When you have a body and a neck that you didn't get from the same place, it's never a given that they'll fit right (hell, it's not REALLY a given even if you do get them from the same place) and you might have to work at it to make them fit properly. At the very least, you could get a cheap 25.5" 24 fret neck and make it into a learning experience . Oh, also, I don't think you can get one of the 22 fret Warmoth necks with their 24 fret extension - that doesn't change the shape/size of the neck, it just extends the fretboard so that you can mount it in a body meant for a 22 fret neck (at least that's what it looks like from their website - I've never actually used one). Jimmy Newman Edited February 22, 2005 by jnewman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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