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Truss rods are frequently made out of steel, though graphite and other materials are sometimes used.. The truss rod can be adjusted to compensate for expansion or contraction in the neck wood due to changes in humidity or temperature, or to compensate for changes in the tension of the strings (the thicker the guitar string, the higher its tension when tuned to correct pitch) or using different ...
The solution is to change the neck-to-body angle, which is impossible with a neck-through design and difficult with a set-neck. A bolt-on neck can readily have a shim inserted between the heel and body, or even have the heel planed fractionally to change the angle (this method is much superior to shims both structurally and tonally).
Neck-through construction is significantly harder to mass-produce than bolt-on or set-in neck constructions. As such, guitars with this construction method tend to be more expensive than guitars made by other methods. This method of construction may be somewhat more common in basses than in guitars. Repairs to the neck are usually expensive and ...
“D” profile neck with a 12" radius. "Single action" or "BiFlex" truss rod adjustment on the headstock. Microtilt neck angle fine adjustment. Some models have string trees. Some models have a coil split switch. 22 medium jumbo frets. Fender Roto-matic tuners, and 4 bolt neck plate. 11 screw pickguard. Some models don't have a pickguard ...
Set-through neck (or Set-thru neck) is a method of joining the neck and the body of guitar (or similar stringed instrument), effectively combining bolt-on, set-in and neck-through methods. It involves: A pocket in the instrument's body for insertion of neck, as in bolt-on method. However, the pocket is much deeper than usual one.
Contoured neck heel (Blade calls it a tapered neck joint) Truss rod adjustment at the body end of the neck, beneath a plastic cover (as opposed to vintage Fender designs, where the pickguard has to be removed) 22-fret fingerboards. Adjustable tension guide (Sprung tensioner on headstock, improvement over string tree)
Often the edges of the guitar around the neck and body and down the middle of the back are inlaid. Skunk stripe inlay. Because some electric guitars (like the Fender Telecaster and Stratocaster) do not have a separate fretboard under which they can fit a truss rod, they fit it in the back of the neck and cover it with a strip of dark wood. This ...
With hollow body set-in neck electric guitars of the 1940s being rather expensive to buy and repair, newcomer Fender in 1950 introduced electric guitars that were easier to manufacture, combining a simple solid body with a bolt-on neck. Fender also introduced the electric bass guitar by adding a longer neck bolted to a solid guitar body.