Guitar Neck Joint – Guitar Heel
June 22nd, 2010 | Author: guitarman
A guitar’s Neck joint or a guitar’s Heel is the level at which the neck is either secured by bolt or glued to the body of the guitar. Just about all acoustic guitars, with the primary exclusion of Taylors, have glued or as differently known have set necks, while electric guitars are fabricated applying both types.
Commonly used set neck joints include:
• Mortise and Tenon joints; simple and strong have been used for thousands of years by woodmen around the world to join pieces of wood
• Dovetail joints; renowned for its resistance to being pulled apart (tensile strength), and
• Spanish heel neck joints; named after the shoe they resemble and normally found in classical guitars.
All of the three types of guitar neck joints provide stability. Bolt-on necks, though while they are historically connected with cheaper instruments, do provide greater flexibility in the guitar’s set-up, and allow easier access for neck joint maintenance and reparations. Another type of neck, only available for solid body electric guitars, is the neck-through-body construction.
These are fashioned so that everything from the machine heads down to the bridge is situated on the same piece of wood. The sides or wings of the guitar are then affixed to this central piece. Some prefer this method of construction as they claim it allows better sustain of each note.
However, some instruments might not have a neck joint at all, having the neck and sides constructed as one piece and the body built around it.
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