If you’re looking for eve flatter, take a look at the Strandberg Boden, which has a super flat 20” radius. Most Gibsons, including the Les Paul, SG, and even the ES-335 (outside of the custom shop range), tend to have a very flat 12” radius.
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The most common Strats, such as the MIM and USA made Player series have a flatter 9.5” radius. Radius can change within the different sub models of the same guitar, for example, not all Stratocasters are made with the same radius – vintage models, including reissues, relics, and new old stock mostly have pretty tight 7.25” radii. This impacts playability in a number of ways, but most notably, insomuch that a flat radius will make it easier to play single notes and will allow for bigger bends, while a tighter radius makes playing chords much easier. The higher the number, the flatter the fretboard. Fretboard Radiusįretboard radius is a measure of the curvature of the fretboard, or, how flat or rounded it is. Of course, these are averages, and the width of your neck could be wider or narrower. The average electric guitar has a neck width at the nut of around 1.69”. The most commonly accepted point of measurement is at the nut, some people measure from elsewhere, but that’s a debate for another day!Ĭlassical guitars and 12 strings tend to have the widest necks, which can be as wide as 2” and 1.87” respectively.
Width is a measure of how wide the fretboard is horizontally from one side to the other. In the 70s and 80s, with the advent of styles like speed metal, manufacturers started making necks thinner than ever before for their genre specific guitars designed to improve playing speed. 096” at the 12 th.Ħ0’s Necks started becoming a lot more tapered, with a more pronounced difference between the depth at the nut and the 12 th fret. The average thickness on a 59 Les Paul was around. The lack of CNC machinery in vintage guitar production did also mean that inconsistencies were rife, although we do now know that the average thickness of a 50’s Stratocaster neck was around. Vintage guitars were notorious for baseball bat-like necks. The depth, is as you’d expect, the measurement of the neck’s thickness, from the center of the back, to the top of the fretboard ( not to the crown of the fret), measured from the middle of the neck. As well as the shape, we also need to consider some other factors, including depth, width, and fretboard radius, all of which have a profound impact on the guitar’s playability. When we talk about neck shape, we’re specifically referring to the cross sectional shape of the back of the neck, but this isn’t the only element of the overall picture of the neck, which we refer to as its profile. What Are the Influencing Factors in Neck Profile?
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How to Find Which Neck Shape Your Guitar Has.
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