I see a lot of people recess the part of the neck that is in the inside of the box so it touches the inside of the lid (even glue it to the lid)....will it sound better if the neck does not touch the inside of the box lid so it resonates better? Please advise.
Pauly
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my first build i glued the neck to the lid, my second i built it so the lid is completely free of the neck. while the boxes were of two completely different types in all honesty they both sound great. im not real sure there is that much of a difference in the sound. maybe as i build more ill start to notice it but really id just go for whatevers easiest
I have built them both ways, and I wasn't able to tell the difference in sound. I just cut the recess notch to be on the safe side. Either way works.
I find more sound comes out of the back of my cbgs!
I cut the recess notch in mine for a simple reason: electronics. It also made it easier for me to get the action right, as I just cut down a bit more of the non-recessed part on the tail end to get the neck to angle down a few degrees.
contrary to popular belief that you will get better resonation with a space , i believe gluing right to the top resos the whole guitar as one much better . most that have tried the same exact box trying both ways , say the one glued to the lid actually sounded better . many also say they can't see the difference .
i have never heard someone that has tried both ways with the same box say the space sounds better .
I'm not sure the space makes it sound better, but it makes me feel better. I have also had good results both ways.
Dont get me started on the sound holes.
—B
To me it seems more likely an urban myth that you have to "hollow" the neck where it passes under the sound board. My second mountain dulcimer (MD) was a neck-through (neck-thru glued to the underside of the soundboard) with a 3/4" fingerboard (glued on top of the sound board for the entire length of the sound box). So wood was glued to both sides of the sound board, and if anything, the resulting instrument sounds better than my first MD. But, as a creature of habit, I still tend to build my box guitars with a the neck hollowed out.
Here's a photo of my 2nd MD:
However, for drum based instruments, you will notice a big difference if the drum head contacts the underlying neck, as has happened on one of my builds where the instrument was build in a dry air conditioned environment, then played in a humid un-airconditioned room (after a day or so), the sheep skin head expanded and the bridge began touching the underlying neck and the sound was very muffled. I finally fixed it by cutting away another 1/4" of wood away, and gluing it back on to the underside of the neck. (Please excuse my run-on sentence.)
-Rand.
I have built both ways using the same box and design. The one that I glued the box top to the neck is, by far, a better sounding guitar.
It shouldn't affect resonance at all, i have my lids pressed snugly against the neck ( recess area not glued to it ) and they sustain well. (-:
you should be able to feel the whole guitar vibrating when playing
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