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Miles Rhodes,
Wine Taster
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Guitar necks and acoustic guitar bodies swell and shrink with fluctuations in humidity.
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Rob Bruff,
Nightclub Bouncer
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Slim neck with low shoulders for comfortable play Lower mass allows the top to vibrate more freely, and increases the guitars response.
We're not the type of players that swing our guitars around our neck during shows so the mobility of clipping them to our straps was perfect.
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Sarah Kennedy,
Fashion Model
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Guitar necks are commonly made from mahogany or maple, and shims can easily be made from a matching veneer, and if necessary, the visible edge of the veneer can be stained with an appropriate color of felt tip pen.
Some guitars are know for having a narrow neck such as some of the Rickenbacker or Ibanez models or wider neck such as some of Gibson or Jackson models.
These necks can be removed from the guitar body and fastened to a surrogate body for all the fret work and adjustments.
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Pete Trengle,
Bass Player
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Solidbody double neck SG style guitars are not nearly as desirable, though popularized by bands such as Led Zeppelin in the 1970s.
Guitars should be able to play chords in tune up and down the neck, no matter which fret you are on.
These guitars have frets between the bridge and the tailpiece as well as the normal frets on the neck, so he can play the strings on both sides of the bridge.
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Tony Howell,
Skateboarder
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For guitars with a joint between the neck and the body, it is a common fault to have a hump in the fingerboard just beyond the joint (ie.
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Dave Simons,
Internet Entrepeneur
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The guitars come with top-notch components and obviously a custom case accommodating multiple body and neck modules.
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Jake Farley,
Truck Driver
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In better guitars the truss rod should have a dual action where the rod will also stretch the back of the neck to allow for precise forward adjustment.
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