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Finding the perfect guitar neck can be harder than you anticipate. Not only does the style of the neck need to meet your particular tastes, but the tone, feel, and mood of the guitar also needs to mesh. For an experienced guitarist, the wrong guitar is obvious. As corny as it sounds, the guitarist and his instrument need to be one. With the wrong guitar, the music suffers, the guitarist is unsettled, and the experience is lessened.
Add Your Style To A Custom Guitar Neck
For experienced guitarists, finding the perfect axe is important to your identity as an artist. One way to really express yourself is with a custom guitar neck. Whether you design your own neck, or have someone else create a design based on your specifications, there are a number of excellent shops that can create a custom guitar for your particular needs. You’ll want to go to a shop that has proven experience and excels at their craft. Both music enthusiasts and collectors can appreciate a finely crafted and unique guitar.
The most common electric guitar neck wood is maple. Maple is an excellent hard wood that provides strong and stable support to the strings, and offers a reflective and focused tone. Further, a maple guitar neck is better able to withstand environmental factors than other woods. If you are looking for a softer tone than maple provides, other common materials to for guitar necks are mahogany, wenge, rosewood, and koa. For more comprehensive information on the various types of woods and their associated qualities, head over to jemsite.com and read Frank Falbo’s article on Guitar Wood Types.
Customization of your guitar neck needn’t be limited by the actual shape and material of the piece. You can just as easily add your own custom flare to the guitar by customizing the color and paint on the already existing wood. If you have found the guitar that feels just right to you, but don’t care for the design, change the look up. There is nothing wrong with finishing your axe with your own design. Again, if you are not comfortable with doing this yourself, take it to a shop that can handle the finish.
While we are on the topic of customization, another great way to add a bit of your own personal style to the guitar is with a custom guitar neck plate. Unique pieces and vintage electric guitars often include a stylized guitar neck plate, and the type and style may help identify the guitar’s manufacturing date and time period. Another way in which to add a custom design, many guitarists are adding custom plates to their instruments.
For Beginners – Use Guitar Neck Paper
One of the best ways for beginners to learn the proper fingering for their guitar is to use guitar neck paper. This is specially designed sheets that illustrate the frets on a guitar. The instructor can write on the sheets to help the student learn the proper finger placements for various chords, giving them a visual representation of how their fingers should rest on the strings.
One of the frustrations of learning the guitar is determining the correct finger placement on the frets. Simple diagrams indicating positions do not always tell enough of the picture to make a difference in learning. Properly written chords on the paper will indicate the proper finger for each position.
Golden Gate T style electric guitar neck. Each neck is made from select Canadian Maple...
Golden Gate S style electric Guitar neck. Each neck is made with black dot inlays for S-style guitar...
This neck features the vintage "V" shape back Fender used for years before adopting the standard "C" shape...