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Post subject: Jeff Beck - neck profile & dimensions
Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2012 5:05 am
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First post here.... and looking forward to being a member.

I've been playing a Standard USA Strat for sometime and I've now decided to reward myself with a new guitar. I'm especially keen on the Jeff Beck Custom Shop. However, I cannot get to play one for a week as the store has to get one in.

Can anyone tell me:

* What does a 'softer' C shape profile look like or mean? How does it compare to the modern C shape on my Strat?

* What is the thickness of the JB neck at the 1st & 12th fret?

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Post subject: Re: Jeff Beck - neck profile & dimensions
Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2012 12:01 pm
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Do you mean "thinner" C?



Made by the Fender Custom Shop for the Custom Artist Series, the Jeff Beck Signature electric guitar features a thinner C-shaped maple neck with a rosewood fingerboard and a contoured heel for easier access to the higher registers.


Jeff Beck Custom Artist Series Neck Info:
Maple C-shaped neck with satin polyurethane finish
Rosewood fingerboard with 9.5 radius
22 medium jumbo frets
Fender/Schaller Deluxe cast/sealed locking tuning machines
25.5" scale length
1.6875" (43 mm) nut width
Contoured heel for easier access to upper frets
LSR roller nut
Jeff Beck's signature on headstock

I searched several sites for you.
Above is what I could find.
It is a start. Good luck. Toppscore :)

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Post subject: Re: Jeff Beck - neck profile & dimensions
Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 2:57 am
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Jeff went back to his previous choice of huge baseball bat necks on his personal stage guitar.


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Post subject: Re: Jeff Beck - neck profile & dimensions
Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 6:49 am
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chromeface wrote:
Jeff went back to his previous choice of huge baseball bat necks on his personal stage guitar.



NOT true.
Where do you get this stuff???

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Post subject: Re: Jeff Beck - neck profile & dimensions
Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2012 12:46 am
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Mike Eldred - Fender wrote:
chromeface wrote:
Jeff went back to his previous choice of huge baseball bat necks on his personal stage guitar.



NOT true.
Where do you get this stuff???

ME


Trevor Wilkinson mentioned it but as far as I can tell jeff's playing the same old neck with a new white body for a few years now.

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Post subject: Re: Jeff Beck - neck profile & dimensions
Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2012 5:04 am
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You should change the specs as they're not correct for a JB Custom since El Becko's personal guitar sports a "Louisville" Slugger bat neck rather than the thinner C profile he used until recently, Suhr-designed stack humbuckers and the old Wilkinson roller nut.

Bring back Midnight Purple as a third colour option together with Olympic White and Surf Green!


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Post subject: Re: Jeff Beck - neck profile & dimensions
Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2012 5:51 am
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chromeface wrote:
You should change the specs as they're not correct for a JB Custom since El Becko's personal guitar sports a "Louisville" Slugger bat neck rather than the thinner C profile he used until recently, Suhr-designed stack humbuckers and the old Wilkinson roller nut.

Bring back Midnight Purple as a third colour option together with Olympic White and Surf Green!


Wrong, wrong, wrong.

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Post subject: Re: Jeff Beck - neck profile & dimensions
Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2012 6:00 am
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chromeface wrote:
You should change the specs as they're not correct for a JB Custom since El Becko's personal guitar sports a "Louisville" Slugger bat neck rather than the thinner C profile he used until recently, Suhr-designed stack humbuckers and the old Wilkinson roller nut.

Bring back Midnight Purple as a third colour option together with Olympic White and Surf Green!


maybe fender shouldn't do anything. I read the same story I suppose you did and Jeff might as well have been referring to a guitar he uses at home or in the studio or whatever.

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What is your problem anyway? That's a pretty big request maybe you should ask nicely because this way it sounds like fender or mike eldred works for you or owes you something.

Let's keep this community nice man.

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Post subject: Re: Jeff Beck - neck profile & dimensions
Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 10:14 am
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Hi all.
On a regular production model: .850" to .930.
Hope this helps. Anyone know what a "Large C" is? Slightly obsessed..it's like my Holy Grail quest.


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Post subject: Re: Jeff Beck - neck profile & dimensions
Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2013 6:13 am
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Go into the Custom Shop website and > 'How to order'; There's a schematic there for basic neck cross-sections and dimensions. Mike has prepared a series of videos on many aspects of preparing the components of the guitars. There's an interesting one on neck woods and carvings, an issue which has been very popular around here. The generic neck on current Fender guitars is their modern C which has a heavier rolled shoulder. From there on it is really a 'play and feel' search. Unfortunately, not all vendors carry an adequate sampling of the vintage neck carves. If you're vendor is willing to go the cost of acquiring a Custom Shop Beck on the chance that you may not care for the guitar, you'd be a very lucky dude.

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Post subject: Re: Jeff Beck - neck profile & dimensions
Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2013 7:29 am
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Cool.zzdoc. :-).
I certainly have seen the vids and diagrams. Very interesting. I have not seen anything on large C specs unfortunately. However...I do know a shop where I can try a Large C myself. I have a great custom shop strat with a Beck neck, which is why I listed the spec for the op. Thanks for helping. Shall post what I order. :-)


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Post subject: Re: Jeff Beck - neck profile & dimensions
Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2013 7:09 am
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Mike Eldred - Fender wrote:
chromeface wrote:
You should change the specs as they're not correct for a JB Custom since El Becko's personal guitar sports a "Louisville" Slugger bat neck rather than the thinner C profile he used until recently, Suhr-designed stack humbuckers and the old Wilkinson roller nut.

Bring back Midnight Purple as a third colour option together with Olympic White and Surf Green!


Wrong, wrong, wrong.

ME


Know this wasn't recorded yesterday, but I found this interview with his guitar tech very informative...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4EBBPOr2no


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Post subject: Re: Jeff Beck - neck profile & dimensions
Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2013 9:59 am
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Now I understand what I didn't understand. Don't ask me 'What?' because if I tell you...well.....you know the rest. :wink:

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Post subject: Re: Jeff Beck - neck profile & dimensions
Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2013 12:40 pm
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ZZDoc wrote:
Now I understand what I didn't understand. Don't ask me 'What?' because if I tell you...well.....you know the rest. :wink:

P.S.See my comment today on the "Brownie'' thread.

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Post subject: Re: Jeff Beck - neck profile & dimensions
Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2013 9:38 am
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4EBBPOr2no[/quote]
I find the testimonials from these techs extremely enlightening. I urge you to search Vintage Guitar's archives, for their feature on Jeff Beck. Last July, I believe. It becomes necessary to digest slowly what one hears and reads in these matters because oft-times an Artist series guitar is merely what Mike Eldred likes to refer to as a 'snapshot' version and not an accurate reproduction unless the intent was to do so. I remember that purple monster they built for Beck...Dual Lace Sensor at the bridge, and a single at the middle and neck. I remember that neck because I actually hauled one off a wall in a shop in NJ back then, and my impression of that neck was "Holy sh-t''.."Who can play this thing''. I wonder tid Beck ever perform with one of those? Note the comment from Beck's tech that Beck 'hates' the several Custom Shop guitars which were build for him and keeps coming back to that mongrel guitar with the John Suhr pickups. Now I want to refresh your memories about the comment that Beck's current tech made in Vintage Guitar mag about that being the only set of such in existence to whit, we hear from Eldred to the fact that HE has a set apparently because they were built by Suhr during his tenure with Fender. The great 19th century British lyricist W.S.Gilbert wrote.."Things are seldom what they seem." We need to be open-minded, question carefully, and take everything with a grain of salt. :idea: :wink:

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