Greets,
I am starting a new build, and I am facing the dilemma how how to mount the pickup without chopping deeply into the neck.
In the past I dodged this issue by using special ultra-thin pickups. Once I *did* notch the neck to fit the pickup lower, and it weakened the neck so bad the instrument wouldn't hold a tune at all, and I had to add metal straps internally to strengthen the neck in order to rescue the guitar.
There must be a better way!
Darn pickups are easily 1/2 inch high, and that makes it hard to achieve low action. I really want the high frets to be more usable, so low action is a must. As it is, if this pickup is mounted right against the neck with no notching, it will be a good 9 or 10 mm high!
I really want the neck all the way thru the body for strength. And I don't want to weaken it by notching a slot for the pickup. How have you guys worked around this?
Pics are attached...
Thanks and blessings,
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I get a lot of jarrah where i am,hard,strong,it's compressive strength very high,making it ideal for necks,but unfortunately,it is rather plain in appearance when only 40 mm wide,the grain beauty only really starts to show at 150-200 mm widths,but I can live with that as long as a 5 minute walk can get me 3 or 4 necks worth for free by visiting a house building site or 2,but a t moment,i have about 3/4 of a tonne in my carport,reclaimed from a demolished shed for a bottle of rum,so i just try to use a contrasting fretboard as a feature.Jonno,I made many guitars from jarrah with no fretboard in my early builds,no problem strength wise,not sure how the merbau stacks against the jarrah,as i've only used it for a 6 string lap steel,25x 20 mm laminated, and that is very rigid with 6 strings
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