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MThomps07: I am fine with your toes. By all means leave 'em in!

Cuthbert: that also looks a very pretty neck. Those are nice staggered locking Sperzels too: I have a set of those on a (much plainer) headstock. They're rock solid, aren't they?

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You are way too nice, ceri.

Crop them toes, please!

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orvilleowner wrote:
You are way too nice, ceri.

Crop them toes, please!


:lol: :lol: :lol:

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Ceri wrote:
MThomps07: I am fine with your toes. By all means leave 'em in!

Cuthbert: that also looks a very pretty neck. Those are nice staggered locking Sperzels too: I have a set of those on a (much plainer) headstock. They're rock solid, aren't they?

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Yes, although they're bitches if you have to restring a already used string. To me, they're better than Schallers, if you heavily use the tremolo, like me, they're still the best choice, along with a LSR nut, of course.

No comments about my nice scalloping? Warmoth said they couldn't do it, but when I sent the pics they were quite impressed...


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No comments about my nice scalloping? Warmoth said they couldn't do it, but when I sent the pics they were quite impressed...


The scalloping looks great, but I'd have to have 'em in my hot little hands to feel the benefit of all of your effort.

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No comments about my nice scalloping? Warmoth said they couldn't do it, but when I sent the pics they were quite impressed...


Ah-ha! 2/10 to Ceri for observation. I'd been wondering about the nut - couldn't quite tell what it was from the side. But I completely failed to notice the scalloping.

A little hard to tell, but that looks a very different profile to the usual scallop - is that right? Be interested to hear where the idea for that shape came from - and how it handles.

Presumably each position had to be individually filed out by hand? Man, that must have been job and a half!

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Ceri wrote:
A little hard to tell, but that looks a very different profile to the usual scallop - is that right? Be interested to hear where the idea for that shape came from - and how it handles.


That scalloping profile is probably patentable, you know.

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Ceri wrote:
Ah-ha! 2/10 to Ceri for observation. I'd been wondering about the nut - couldn't quite tell what it was from the side. But I completely failed to notice the scalloping.

A little hard to tell, but that looks a very different profile to the usual scallop - is that right? Be interested to hear where the idea for that shape came from - and how it handles.

Presumably each position had to be individually filed out by hand? Man, that must have been job and a half!

Very interesting.

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1)Too much attention to detail may make you lose the perspective of the bigger picture... :P

2)Yes, it's asymmetric...it's a long story, making it short I had my old american standard neck scalloped by a luthier here, a man who isn't worth to be mentioned, because he's a pathologic liar. Anyway, he claimed, like many luthiers here, to have discovered the phylosophical stone, the holy grail etc... all together, between these Truths he also said to have repaired Yngwie's personal guitar, that according to him didn't have a U scalloped profile but a sort of teardrop, with the concavity closer to the fret. According to him, this would have allowed the player not to play out of tune...at that time I was 20, and I thought it was already BS...anyway I let him do it.

The job was nice, but the neck started to bend significantly, I struggled witht he truss rod for almost ten years until the day that the truss rod died and opened a crack on the back of the neck. Gone forever. Therefore I started to wonder if I had to get another one, and how to improve it...a friend of mine makes little jobs on guitars in his spare time, and we discussed the issue....until we came to the conclusion that the concept was good but we needed to leave the first part of the fret untouched and then carve just in the zone where the finger touches the string, aka close to the fret, like in the previous flawed design. Then we made a gentle fillet in order to create a sort of "wave".

So I bought this Warmoth neck with Pao Ferro fingerboard and we started to work on that, of course it's all made by hand, with care, but in the end it wasn't a impossible task, and my friend charged me of 100 €.

Of course, I'm very happy with the result, it's much more good looking and it fills better than the traditional U shape, let's say it's a ergonomic and structural improvement, in order to have the void just where you really need it.


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That sounds like the start of your patent application (hint hint).

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orvilleowner wrote:
That sounds like the start of your patent application (hint hint).


I would like to find somebody interested in this concept, I have to confess that we thought about it...several times.

Anybody have experience on the scalloping that Blackmore uses?At his concert I wasnt' able to get close enough to notice that.


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