nah not mine!
before I stick the neck onto the box mention earlier.
the question is to mount it straight or have a slight curve downward toward the nut.(not the tuner part)
what are the benefit of having it slightly down at the nut from the box.
I've notice that some cbg neck's are straight and others not so.
curved....
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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...
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 ?
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.
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.
yes that is what I mean Ted.thanks