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Neck sources
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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Permalink Reply by Paul Craig on
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A couple of places to get cheap 6 string necks and 1 place to get CBG necks.
http://www.rondomusic.com/partsbodies.html
http://www.deltagrooveguitars.com/#!delta-groove-guitar-necks/cr22
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Permalink Reply by J.D. on
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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
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