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Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 8:52 am
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im really starting to dig vintage necks, 60s style, w/small headstock and no headstock truss rod access. i really like the look.
what do you guys think?


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Small headstock on the maple neck :wink:


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Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 10:30 am
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Yes, I too prefer small headstock on maple. All the Fender necks fell "right" to me... fat, thin, U V C! I also prefer 12" radius but fewer to choose from here.


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Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 1:19 pm
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the necks are one of the main reasons I love strats... and yeah maple with small headstock


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Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 1:28 pm
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I agree with the consencus thus far. I too prefer the maple fingerboard with the small headstock. The beautiful neck on my Am Dlx was the first thing that impressed me about this guitar. After I plugged her in I had a geekgasm!

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Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 6:30 pm
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Hello cyclingjar,

I like the standard necks fine, but I'd really like
the '62 hot rod necks or the Stevie Ray Vaughn
necks, both are a substantiial piece of lumber.

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Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 9:14 am
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Mr. Bill,
i think your favorites are like mine. 60's vintage neck with the vintage tinted headstock.
the only thing, i have mixed feelings about fretboard.
1, i love the way maple neck ages and shows the wear on the fret board where the strings were mostly used.
2, however i love rosewood fretboard. but i am buying a maple neck classic 50s strat, w/soft v neck. cant wait to play the crap out of it.

hopefully in a few yrs the neck shows some wear and relics nicely.


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Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 9:17 am
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The Clapton soft-v is my fave.


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Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 10:39 am
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While we're on the subject of necks, I've heard that the bigger necks like the U shaped and the Stevie and Jimmy Vaughn necks, have better bass. Is this true?


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Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 11:47 am
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Strataholic wrote:
While we're on the subject of necks, I've heard that the bigger necks like the U shaped and the Stevie and Jimmy Vaughn necks, have better bass. Is this true?


I don't have much experience U or SRV necks but I have found in my 30 years of noodling with guitars that the more the substantial the wood is the deeper and richer and richer the tone. This isn't just in terms of measurements but also the variety and age of the wood, precision and over all quality of components that went into the construction of the neck determin the sound. If I'm not mistaken most U necks are on vintage reissue so they are used on more of the high end Fenders. Since SRV, at the time that we met, was using pretty high action and heavy strings on his #1, I would assume a neck bearing his signiture would have to be very substantial and no doubt sonicly superior on the low end as well as the high.

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Thanks for the info manabu. I never factored in the idea that these necks might appear on the more expensive models.


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Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 1:02 pm
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The SRV Signature guitar doesn't have a really huge or beefy neck. It has a standard early 60's oval shape - a "C" neck, I think it's called - and a 12" radius. I've played several from their introduction on, and none of them felt "big" to me.

Way too much credence is given to ideas about how you can predict the tone of a guitar based on its materials. The truth is, you can't. A good guitar is a good guitar for a whole bunch of reasons, most of which guitar players can only take wild guesses at.


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Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 1:16 pm
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Maple neck/fingerboard with medium jumbo frets.

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JV is a soft v.


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Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 9:27 am
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How's the Jeff Beck Strat neck? I'm referring to the current version.
I know that the old one had a baseball bat neck then they thinned it a little for the current version. So my question is: Is the JB strat neck still a little chunkier than a standard Start? A slightly chunky neck is preferred by me and I will probably be getting the JB Strat if this is true. What other current strats have chunkier necks? Thank you.


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