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Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 2:04 pm
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wow this is interesting, I noticed that I really liked my new American Hss neck over my Korean lite ash, strat, at first I thought the neck was wider, maybe it is, but then I realised what it was, the string spacing making it easier for me to play without hitting the wrong strings by mistake. Making chords easier to finger, the American neck is so much better for me due to the wider string spacing.


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Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 2:17 pm
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The 1 11/16"/43MM nut was another reason why I chose the Hwy 1 along with the GC close-out made it a no brainer over the Std. MIM


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I think even though they centered the strings from the edges more with the Highway One, the string spaces are still pretty similar to the American and American Deluxe. I've lowered the float on my bridge back to 1/16th because it matches the truss rod up top better and is faster. Very smooth playing guitar for bending, barring chords anything, partially due to the jumbo frets they say. The reason the Highway One tends to get that g hummmmmm I found out isn't a string spacing problem. Fender puts a 60s vintage style pickup with the hotter g for modern strings in the Highway One, but like the SCN noiseless set in the Am Dx are balanced for modern strings and don't overhot the g string. What's cool about the way the Highway One is set up is if you're playing a lot of blues like You Done Lost Your Good Thing Now the g string is major and it really pops. All the same, I'm tempted to upgrade to the SCN noiseless like the Custom Pro and also put in stainless steel bridge saddles and locking tuners. It'll be a Hotrod Highway Custom Pro fascimile for thousands less. I'll do it sometime in 2008, I expect, and I'll let y'all know how it go.

The satin finish is long gone except at the top by the neck. Polished by playing.


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Post subject: Re: Shrunken price means shrunken nut width?
Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2013 10:07 am
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I bought a Squier and I won't say it's a piece of junk. It is well made, but I can't play the damn thing because the strings are too close. I never would have dreamed it could have this problem. A year ago, when I bought it, the web was kind of wishy-washy on the problem. I write now because this forum seems so confident that this is the problem. I will sell it when I can and get a real guitar. I just wonder about one thing. An earlier reply here gives the neck width for many guitars and it is showing that the narrow-neck Squires are 1 mm short - 42 not 43. Do you all think one mm (divided between 5 inter-string spaces)can make that much difference?


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Post subject: Re: Shrunken price means shrunken nut width?
Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2013 10:26 am
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Ha. Welcome back old thread. Though I didn't post on it at the time I actually remember this thread from 2007. Good grief, I have spent too much time on this Forum...! :shock:

A-a-a-anyway. To answer your question, squierbuyer, I would point out a couple of things.

One is that many posts on this thread have confused string spacing with nut width. They are not the same thing. It is perfectly possible to have a 41 or 42 mm width nut but have the slots cut so the strings are spaced the same as on a 43 mm nut. Regardless what brand is written on the headstock, string spacing is something anyone can have adjusted on a guitar very affordably if they feel the strings are a mite too close together or far apart.

String spacing and nut width are intimately related, but different.

Another thing to bear in mind is that published specs are not always the same thing as what a guitar ends up being, so far as nut width is concerned. It only takes the guy doing the final prep sanding on the neck to go a bit hard with the orbital sander and that neck and its nut are narrower than the spec sheet says. If we really want to get anal about nut widths we need to take digital calipers to each individual guitar and see what it really measures, not what the catalog says.

And lastly, just to scotch the myth in the original post, I happen to have a couple of old 1990s Squier necks lying about in my work room. Both of them have nuts slightly larger than 42 mm. There is no such thing as "American nut width" and "metric" or "import nut width". Necks and nuts vary.

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Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2013 10:45 am
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Thanks Rock Icon. I hear you, but I still think it will be more fun to get a new guitar.
I play in the 80's and now, and I don't remember this problem then. I should not have sold that Strat. The Squire was meant to be a temp. And if I did post previously for this it was Aug 2012.


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Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2013 11:52 am
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squierbuyer wrote:
Thanks Rock Icon.

Haha! :)

This is the point I always want to remind people that we don't choose the words that appear under our usernames. That's Fender's doing - I am definitely not a Rock Icon and I'm guessing you probably would prefer it didn't say Hobbyist under your name. :lol:

Nuttin' we can do about it. Welcome to the Forum, anyhow.

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Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2013 1:50 pm
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Ceri wrote:
...published specs are not always the same thing as what a guitar ends up being, so far as nut width is concerned...


So true.

My '57 HR measures 42.58 mm, 1.677 in. String spacing from E to E (outside) is 36.07 mm, 1.42 in. (at the nut)
My Am Std measures 43.22 mm, 1.702 in. String spacing from E to E (outside) is 37.09 mm, 1.46 in. (at the nut)

The HR feels as if the string spacing between the strings is wider, maybe because the neck is beefier. I know that I don't mute the strings as much with the HR on open chords.

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It occurred to me that the string spacing at the bridge is wider on the HR than the Am Std, so that means that the string spacing will be a little wider between the strings closer to the nut also, which is probably why the HR string spacing feels a bit wider when making open cords.

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