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Permalink Reply by Scott aka Farmer Ted on December 9, 2014 at 5:52am

If you mean a tilted neck (where neck is not parallel to top of box, rather slightly angled down or below parallel) it is to enable a lower string action. There are variables like a tall bridge that definitely benefit from a tilted neck.

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Permalink Reply by john mackay on December 9, 2014 at 6:31am

yes that is what I mean Ted.thanks

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Permalink Reply by JL on December 9, 2014 at 9:02am

I think the term is 'Back-Angle', (picture a violin which has a LOT of back angle)  it lets you cut more into the bridge to get the action you want at the 12th+ frets, and still have a good break angle over the bridge.

on my last build, I got the nut cut to the depth I wanted, but I built it straight without a back angle and when I went to cut the  the bridge to get the action height at the 12th fret, I couldn't.  I had almost no break angle left, d'oh.

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Permalink Reply by The Phrygian Kid on December 9, 2014 at 1:01pm

Pitching a neck, like radiusing a fingerboard, like tapering a neck, like dressing your frets, is something that a lot of people here will tell you that you do not need to be doing.

then, one day you might try one or more of these things..

and you'll never go back, it will become part of the way you build them and the builds of those who don't do (the thing in question) will feel amateur to you in comparison to your own...

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Permalink Reply by Dan Inghram on December 19, 2014 at 7:57am

OK, so as I am doing my first build I wonder how I would figure neck pitch other than trial and error. I understand it is dependent on scale length and bridge height.  But do I just straight edge from nut to bridge and adjust ?

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