Laminate Neck Question?

[Timius]

Reading the new issue of Guitar World it talks about a 3rd Jackson Prototype RR model guitar.

It goes on to say how it was basically built to be a V shaped Les Paul Custon.

In the article it talks about a 5-piece laminate maple neck.

What dimension would each piece of wood be for a neck through?

I'm not so much worried about length but more so the width and thickness of each board?

Did gibson ever laminate any other types of wood in there?

Thanks!

[stiggz]

Reading the new issue of Guitar World it talks about a 3rd Jackson Prototype RR model guitar.

It goes on to say how it was basically built to be a V shaped Les Paul Custon.

In the article it talks about a 5-piece laminate maple neck.

What dimension would each piece of wood be for a neck through?

I'm not so much worried about length but more so the width and thickness of each board?

Did gibson ever laminate any other types of wood in there?

Thanks!

does it really matter how thick they are?

one could assume they are the same thickness or maybe there could be a narrow few in the middle? who knows

for my neck through bass i did a 5 peice laminate of tazzy blackwood and QLD maple the 3 inner laminates were 1/2" and god knows what the outside ones were, thickness? how thick is ur guitar/bass gonna be? answered ur own question there

*edit, who really gives an airborne fornication what gibson did, if you are building a guitar you are building it for yourself not a gibson customer

Edited February 18, 2007 by stiggz

[Melvyn Hiscock]

Gibson generally work on 2/14 in width for their neck blanks so 3 X 3/4 for a 3 ply neck and so .45 each laminate for a 5 ply.

[Timius]

Gibson generally work on 2/14 in width for their neck blanks so 3 X 3/4 for a 3 ply neck and so .45 each laminate for a 5 ply.

Thanks for the info!

Also, your book is excellent! It has been an excellent guide in my attempts at building guitars.

[Timius]

Reading the new issue of Guitar World it talks about a 3rd Jackson Prototype RR model guitar.

It goes on to say how it was basically built to be a V shaped Les Paul Custon.

In the article it talks about a 5-piece laminate maple neck.

What dimension would each piece of wood be for a neck through?

I'm not so much worried about length but more so the width and thickness of each board?

Did gibson ever laminate any other types of wood in there?

Thanks!

does it really matter how thick they are?

one could assume they are the same thickness or maybe there could be a narrow few in the middle? who knows

for my neck through bass i did a 5 peice laminate of tazzy blackwood and QLD maple the 3 inner laminates were 1/2" and god knows what the outside ones were, thickness? how thick is ur guitar/bass gonna be? answered ur own question there

*edit, who really gives an airborne fornication what gibson did, if you are building a guitar you are building it for yourself not a gibson customer

I'm not trying to copy gibson, I'm trying to find out what method they used for their 5-piece laminates necks. WHY? Read the top of the post, there was an article of on a lost JAckson Rhoads prototype. They gave very little into on it. 2 of the things they did say were, 1. neck through with mahogany wings. 2. 5-piece laminate maple neck. These were both done by Grover Jackson to emulate Rhoads' favorite Les Paul Custom.

All in all I was more intrested in what other wood may have been used with the 3 pieces of maple, or was it all maple.

[Demiurge]

Interesting, I had no idea that his LP Custom had a multi-lam neck. I'll admire it even more that he would supposedly bend the guitar's neck slightly when he played pinch harmonics.

[Timius]

Interesting, I had no idea that his LP Custom had a multi-lam neck. I'll admire it even more that he would supposedly bend the guitar's neck slightly when he played pinch harmonics.

There are a few guitarist that I've seen do that trick. For most of them it must be nice to have an endorsement so that you can do tricks like that and not have to worry about destroying your guitar.

Nuno Bettencourt used to do it all the time on the acoustic songs by Extreme. That used to amaze me.

[Demiurge]

I used to do chord bends when all I had was a cheap SG copy and no guitar with a trem. It was a one-piece neck so it was easier to bend than a multi-lam. If the neck snapped- meh, it's all for the music, right?

[Desopolis]

also, I wonder if they count veneers into the lam strips. many necks use it as a ascetic thing..