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Permalink Reply by Pascal on July 25, 2013 at 11:50pm

box is just what it is, a box. wont hold much stress. youre rigt, tuners to tailpiecee in one piece is a heck of a lot stronger than a braced box.

......says the expert with just 4 builds on name...... :)

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Permalink Reply by Tom Lauten on July 26, 2013 at 12:08am

Live, learn, etc....

I am hoping I will end up with something that is as playable as it is pleasing to look at.

Now I have to wait till Tues/Weds till I get this part back from the fabricators. I've prepped everything else.

Grant me patience....NOW!

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Permalink Reply by Randy S. Bretz on July 26, 2013 at 1:04am

I have a build on the bench now....where the neck is just like Pascal says, but what i did was to suspend the box. The neck passes through the box but doesn`t touch the box. I used an under the box frame and a false bottom. The box is attached to that at the 4 bottom corners and attached to the frame. My figuring is the box will have better vibration being the bridge is the only part touching it. Plus the neck is one piece with an exotic wood fret board which helps in strengthening the neck.

 

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Permalink Reply by Tom Lauten on July 26, 2013 at 1:09am

I think next time I build anything but a classic "neck through" I'll go with a plain neck and then a fingerboard allowing me to shape a neck to suit and stiffen/ truss rod the neck under the fingerboard. I certainly won't get this ambitious again with a plain, pre fretted neck, nice enough but not enough room for maneuvering.

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Permalink Reply by Dan Sleep on July 26, 2013 at 1:26am

If you make a 3 or 4 string neck, you really don't need a truss rod. A hardwood neck with an addon fingerboard is plenty strong. I have made bunches of them without truss or reinforcing rods in them. I hate to see you got to all that extra work for nothing.

You can lay two 1x2 on their edges and laminate a neck that way and make it super strong too.

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Permalink Reply by Pascal on July 26, 2013 at 2:49am

you have any pics of the box and how the neck is supported, would help alot

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Permalink Reply by Tom Lauten on July 30, 2013 at 7:34am

Here is the fix to my wobbling neck...I can't imagine THIS wont solid things up an awful lot... I hope!

http://www.cigarboxnation.com/photo/neck-brace-1?context=latest

Its a welded aluminum neck brace I had made up to stop the aluminum box from wobbling on my 4 string build. The neck is butt joined via 3mm thick angle brackets screwed into the heel and a plate screwed into the back of the heel but the box still flexed, I am hoping this will have sorted that little problem out! The 50mm x 25mm box section is welded to some angle that is bolted through the neck mounting brackets and the end of the box wall then runs the full length of the box and is bolted onto the box from the back. The pick ups and bridge bolt onto the box section and the license plate will cover the front of the box.

You can see the 3mm thick strips screwed into the sides of the neck to help make it more rigid along the neck...I may also epoxy these into place to make sure they don't slip at all.

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