Neck radius, neck shape, scale length, neck contour, nut width
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 เม.ย. 2018
- In this video I discuss the specifications used to describe the shape, dimensions and feel of a guitar neck.
Scale Length - This can affect the tension on the strings and can be a factor in comfort when playing.
Fingerboard radius - This can affect the height of the strings relative to the fretboard and may have an impact on playability for lead or chord work. There's a great diagram here that explains this www.warmoth.com/guitar/necks/R...
Neck Profiles - The shape of the back of the neck impacts how the guitar feels in your hands. It can also contribute to issues like tendentious if it's not comfortable.
www.warmoth.com/Guitar/Necks/B...
Nut Width -(hahaha) - can also impact the comfort of the neck
www.warmoth.com/Guitar/Necks/N...
FIngerboard Materials - Ebony, Rosewood, Maple, Baked Maple and others all feel different under your fingers.
www.warmoth.com/Guitar/Necks/N...
Frets - The frets can vary in height, width and material type. Again impacting the feel of your fingers on the board.
www.warmoth.com/Guitar/Necks/F...
Thickness of the neck itself - Some believe that this impacts the tone of the instrument. More wood equals better tone. Though today my focus is only the feel of the neck this thought is worth considering.
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Been playing for 50 years and the most important thing I've learned is that the neck IS the guitar, when it comes to how good you will sound. That's why Warmoth is the best thing that has happened to guitars. Most people buy guitars for the LOOK (bad idea) or the REPUTATION (bad). Put 70% of your cash into the neck and 29% into pickups...1% left for the body. Get a custom neck with great pickups and put it on any cheapo body and you will sound good, if you can level the frets and set it up right. Most of my guitars have $700 necks and $300 pickups, matched up with $40 bodies that I get at garage sales. Don't waste 20 years (like I did) listening to all the other talk. It's the NECK ! ...and then the pick ups...and a decent tube amp. If you listen to that, you'll save LOTS of money and time, running around in circles, being disappointed and eventually having the light bulb come on...20 years late.
i wish there was a standard way of measuring a person's hand and then having neck recommendations from manufacturers based on that measurement. It sure would eliminate a lot of the trial and error.
I remember the days when there were mom and pop music stores who sold quality made in USA guitars and you could feel them and try them before buying, now you have to do 6 months of research online and take a leap of faith
That's a 7.250 inch RADIUS(half the diameter of a circle)..... If you draw that circle it's a 14.50 inch circle.
Rosewood for me i have a strat an ibanez and am looking for a Les Paul but My Budget wont stretch for the moment and look's like i might have to settle for "A Cheaper Brand" if you know what i mean i have heard some are very Good and some are Rubbish so i'm asking people if they Recommend any, any particular place they are made and so on Do you have any preferences For That particular sort of Guitar i would be most Obliged if so coming from someone who obviously know's his guitars .
Very interesting
Aren't most Fenders 9.5? But yeah, 12 inch radius is easier to play. Thank you for the video. Very informative.
My first guitar was a '62 Strat which my dad bought for me in '65. I played that guitar or years and got used to it. Anything else I played usually felt "different". When I started playing professionally, I needed a different guitar and settled on a '71Gibson SG, which worked well for me. I got used to the feel of that guitar over the years and anything else just felt "different". I never understood why at that time. I played a friend's '61 SG and that guitar was amazing! I could play things I couldn't on my 71 SG. It was super comfortable and the tone was VERY different than the '71 SG. It was very hard to analyze all of that during the 60s and 70s ... not as difficult now when all of the specs available on all of the necks. I do prefer ebony as a fretboard wood on my electrics and acoustics. If you are lucky enough to find that perfect guitar for your hands ... early on ... your playing could evolve to its highest potential.
I love rosewood. Its perfectly comfortable to my fretting fingers.
2014 Gibson Les Paul neck was Rosewood. Not baked Maple. Try polishing your frets.
This is a really important topic that is almost never discussed. You can watch hundreds of TH-cam videos comparing one guitar to another, and they almost never talk about the neck, and how it actually feels to play the guitar. Personally for me, if the neck is not comfortable, I could care less about the rest of the guitar. A guitar can be a tremendous value...sound amazing...look great...and be very well made, but if the neck does not have the correct thickness, profile, radius and fret wire, it will still be miserable to play!
Fantastic video and I'm embarrassed to say that it has taken me decades to realize just how important this is to understanding what guitars will work for you and why others won't.
Very comprehensive and accessible! For me it's all about the look (maple!), everything else I can adapt to and
I've been playing guitar for over 20 years and never knew a lot of what your shared. Thanks!
This is the video I needed, I'm a bass player learning guitar & learning all the nuances that go with it. Just jumped into the neck rabbit hole recently, & see it is priority number one.
Very, very well done! I've researched this several times before, but this really helped solidify and make it more concrete.
Thanks for this video, it's something that is not that much discussed when buying a guitar. While I prefer a neck with a decent amount of chunky on it, I don't like the nut width any more than 1 11/16", and I refuse a neck that is 1 5/8", the nut width is too small, and hangs up chord changes. What I would recommend is that the first thing you do when trying out a guitar, hold the neck at the first fret as if you are getting ready to play. If the webbing of your hand touches the neck, and it continues to do so when you fret the strings there, that's a good indicator you have a neck profile that fits your hand. To a classical or jazz player, neck profiles may not mean as much, because they are taught not to grasp the neck as they play, just to have only their thumb there, but nut width would come more into the equation with that kind of technique. Then again, other players could care less, they just get the guitar and play it, because it can do other things for them. Jimi Hendrix was one such player. If you have ever seen closeups of his fretting hand as he played, and he had big hands with long, spindly fingers, most of his Strats had the then Fender factory standard of 1 5/8" nut width, which didn't stop him from getting the sounds he wanted. Back then, obviously, you had to take what you got from the factory, as the aftermarket guitar parts industry for consumer use was just wishful thinking for the most part, not really coming into being until the late 70's.
I just wanted to send a quick THANK YOU for posting this video. I learned more from you in this 12 minute video than I learned from ALL Guitar Center “Guitar guys” from over a dozen stores, spanning from 2009 to now. Very cool explanations!
What the neck is finished with, or not finished with, makes a huge difference as well.