necks

GENERIC

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The Generic brand name is used to categorise unbranded guitar and amplifier parts.

Online fret finder

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If you are making a fretboard, you need to get your frets in the right position. This online 2-D fret placement calculator will help you do just that.

Design a spaghetti headstock logo

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We featured an article a while back about making your own headstock decal . Andreas Folvell produced another guide about designing a Fender style spaghetti logo to customise your parts-o-caster. The method uses the excellent (and free) Inkscape graphics program.

Conical tapered fretboard plugin

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This is a script to automatically generate a conical tapered guitar fingerboard using Google's free 3D design program Sketchup .

Set neck = better sustain. Myth?

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There are three ways of attaching the neck to the body of an electric guitar: set necks where the neck is glued to the body with a tenon joint (most Gibson guitars), though necks where the neck & body are made from the same piece of wood and bolt-on necks (most Fender guitars).

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Make a guitar neck with CNC

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This project by John Williams shows how you can make a guitar neck using a home-built CNC machine. John built the CNC machine with plans and a kit from HobbyCNC.com. (Check out www.cnczone.com for free plans).

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