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The neck is most frequently attached to the body at the 14th fret, although in its earliest incarnation—and still on some more recent models—the neck joins the body at the 12th fret ("12-fret" configuration, in association with a larger, round shouldered body size and shape, most commonly in conjunction with the slotted headstock style). [1 ...
The lower control knob is a three-position rotary switch, selecting between the neck pickup, neck + humbucker, or humbucker. The guitar body is basswood 1-9/16" thick (~1/4" thinner than standard Strats), with edge reliefs for forearm & belly, with 2 separate pickup cavities, connected by a drilled passage started from the neck pocket.
The neck of a guitar includes the guitar's frets, fretboard, tuners, headstock, and truss rod. The wood used to make the fretboard will usually differ from the wood in the rest of the neck. The bending stress on the neck is considerable, particularly when heavier gauge strings are used, and the ability of the neck to resist bending is important ...
There are two primary families of guitars: acoustic and electric. An acoustic guitar has a wooden top and a hollow body. An electric guitar may be a solid-body or hollow body instrument, which is made louder by using a pickup and plugging it into a guitar amplifier and speaker. Another type of guitar is the low-pitched bass guitar.
This is the standard bracing pattern on the classical guitar, dating to the work of Antonio Torres Jurado in the 19th century. Although the originator of this bracing style has not been reliably established, the earliest known use is by Spanish luthier Francisco Sanguino in the mid to late 18th century.
schematic vertical section of electric guitar neck: Date: created 2006-08-16: Source: drawing made by GreyCat, based on JPEG by Detlev Dördelmann: Author: Mikhail Yakshin : Permission (Reusing this file) GFDL / CC-BY-SA-2.5,2.0,1.0: Other versions: JPEG version by Detlev Dördelmann
The guitar he played was a Rickenbacker A22, nicknamed the "Frying Pan". [36]: 837 Formerly a trombone player, Dunn's guitar playing introduced horn-like solos, with the staccato phrasing of jazz players, and, according to historian Andy Volk, was of indelible influence on subsequent generations of steel players. [2]: 90
The fingerboard is made from ebony and has 22 frets. The guitar has neck and bridge humbucking pickups, both made by Seymour Duncan. The bridge is an original Floyd Rose 2 point double locking tremolo. This guitar was built in the Jackson custom shop and only 25 units were made. Demmelition King V (Artist Signature Series)