bolt on classical neck

[zorf]

Been searching for a bolt on neck for a solid body
nylon string guitar i want to build.
I've checked the usual suspects.
Was hoping to avoid making my own, but may end up
going there.
Any ideas?
thanks

 

[crazydoc]

Here's how I did a bolt-on neck reset for a classical guitar,
https://homerecording.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=206779
using Frank Ford's method.
http://www.frets.com/FRETSPages/Luthier/Technique/Guitar/NeckReset/BCRIchReset/bcrichreset1.html

Since yours is solid body, and you're doing it new, I don't know if this will be much help. Search Frank's site - there may be something helpful there.
http://www.frets.com/FRETSPages/pagelist.html

Another good site is
http://www.mimf.com/cgi-bin/WebX
You have to register to access the library.

 

[Light]

Yeah, for that one your going to have to make your own.


Light

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[zorf]

yeah, thats what i was afraid of.
Hmm... cut the heal off of a nylon string neck?

 

[crazydoc]

yeah, thats what i was afraid of.
Hmm... cut the heal off of a nylon string neck?

Even if you cut off the heel, the neck itself is only 12 frets long. The other 6 frets and fingerboard extend from the neck, but have no support, so there's nothing there with any strength to bolt onto the solid body.

Secondly, why would you want a nylon string guitar with a solid body? There would be little if any acoustic volume produced, and I'd think that the solid body would damp the string vibration to such an extent a piezo pickup wouldn't give adequate volume or tone either.

 

[crazydoc]

Now having taken a shower (where I get all my great ideas ), I think you can modify a classical neck to bolt/screw it on to a solid body. Cut off the heel with a cut that leaves about a 3/4" neck thickness for 3 or 4 inches toward the headstock. Rout a cutout of corresponding depth and width into the body, and screw on the neck from the bottom of the body in the usual way. The fingerboard's bottom will be flush with the top of the guitar body. To access the frets above the body/neck junction, make the body a cutaway design.

It may look sort of dorky with a neck that appears to be quite short.

I still don't see how you'll get any sound out of it.

 

[mshilarious]

Warmoth does a 16" radius with a wide-ish nut. That's probably as close as you can get without DIY. Maybe if you beg Warmoth, they'll leave it flat

I had an electro-acoustic nylon string Yamaha some years ago; it had a mildly radiused fingerboard. Wasn't ideal for classical, but it worked OK.

 

[zorf]

Hey,

Thanks for the ideas.

There are actually quite a few solid or thin nylon string guitars
out there;
The chet atkins, the godins, carvin, variax, a whole mess of breakdown travel guitars.

I'm using a 1 inch thick chambered body with a cutaway.

The sound comes mostly from the piezo, anyway.

Just hoping i might get lucky and find a ready made source for the necks.