![]() ![]() Sometimes a 2nd piece of 1 inch thick wood gets glued to the neck to make it as thick as the body, and then the 'wings' would be glued to the sides.Īs previously mentioned - technically, those "half the body thick" pieces get cut off at the neck pickup. Sometimes it is slid into position on a body that was carved out. Newer ones, however, use a 1 inch thick (neck thickness) piece of wood. ![]() And then "wings" would be glued to the sides to make it a guitar. The older ones were true neck thru guitars, where it was one block of wood 2 inches thick (body thickness). The maple neck is bright green (matching the bright green of the figured maple top) in sharp contrast to the darker green piece of alder that is under it (as well as the darker green alder body wings). You can see this showing on trans finishes near the back strap pin, as the maple neck piece usually shows through the trans finish lighter than the alder or mahogany body wood does.Below is an illustration of shreddermon's explanation of the shallow neck blank.įrom the 2013 Jackson catalog, page 20-21 of 80 ( ), we can see a transparent KE2 with the half-depth neck terminating at the heel of the guitar. ![]() (Which is roughly only half as deep.) In the 90s (I think), they started using a shallower neck blank, and glued in another piece of wood for that center piece on the back of the body. On the neck side, that obviously wastes a fair bit of wood. "Full depth" is where the wood blank they use for the neck and center piece of the body is the full depth - front to back - of the body itself. ![]()
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