Detail view of the rear of the neck. You can see the homemade mechanics, the manually curved neck carefully varnished-sanded four times, and the vinyl strings coming from the front side
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Hi Larry, about the headstocks I built, well no they are not so heavy (Larry was asking in another message) and I can't really feel the difference in weight but anyway, the main purpose was to build this neck as a demonstration and a proof of concept that it really works. Moreover, I don't know if someone will be interested in building cheap headstocks but the idea to send the strings on the other side of the neck is a
true gem ! Some people prefer when it is looking as usual, some others prefer when tools are highly functional, but everyone will be interested and asking questions. So even, if a craftworker continues to build neck the usual way for production line guitars easy to sell, it might be a good idea to have at least one like these neck to display in a shop and that's a way to keep people interested at your work and engage a discussion, even if it ends by selling another guitar with a usual neck :D
...On this picture I forgot to add a locking nut after the wing-nut :D but still it works fine and the bolts are kept in place with no other tool than strings tension to keep them straight ; I love the idea :D even if I may not build all my guitars like this, I think having one as a proof of concept is very encouraging !
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true gem ! Some people prefer when it is looking as usual, some others prefer when tools are highly functional, but everyone will be interested and asking questions. So even, if a craftworker continues to build neck the usual way for production line guitars easy to sell, it might be a good idea to have at least one like these neck to display in a shop and that's a way to keep people interested at your work and engage a discussion, even if it ends by selling another guitar with a usual neck :D
...On this picture I forgot to add a locking nut after the wing-nut :D but still it works fine and the bolts are kept in place with no other tool than strings tension to keep them straight ; I love the idea :D even if I may not build all my guitars like this, I think having one as a proof of concept is very encouraging !