Neck sources

Posted by Mark Werner on March 29, 2016 at 2:10pm

Having built all manner of things, I now have a rather crazy notion to build a Godin guitar.    Well, not REALLY...  But a nylon-string semi-hollow 6-stringer with primarily electronic sound.

But I really don't want to build and carve a neck this time.  Did that for my last deluxe 4-stringer and it was a lot of work.

What I want to do is take a conventional electric guitar neck with a three-tuner-per-side headstock.... Add a bit of thickness, hog out the existing tuner holes and install conventional nylon-string tuners.

The body I plan to be fairly straightforward with a baltic birch top and likely a couple of piezo pickups, though I might research a microphone.

I just looked on ebay and didn't find much.... Well, I found a lot but all in the much-too-expensive range.  Old Gibson necks for 100 dollars and northwards.. that sort of thing.

Guess I'll be haunting the guitar shops locally...    

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  • J.D. April 19, 2016 at 9:57am
    I have a buddy that has bought several Strat ,Tele ,Les Paul knockoff guitar necks for around $20 a piece maybe even cheaper. I was looking on eBay the other day and they had several different necks w different headstock's ,but were all over eBay & Amazon and another guy I met on "CBN" bought 2 strat style "knockoff guitar necks" ,but think he paid 25$ complete w frets and all. I myself have been looking at the different necks for my six string build as and I have seen them range from 15-30 bbucks ,ofcourse There are necks that go up to 90 dollars ,but those necks claim to be 100% name brand "Replacement necks" ...lol
  • Paul Craig March 29, 2016 at 2:30pm

    A couple of places to get cheap 6 string necks and 1 place to get CBG necks.

    http://www.guitarfetish.com/

    http://www.rondomusic.com/partsbodies.html

    http://www.deltagrooveguitars.com/#!delta-groove-guitar-necks/cr22

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