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Originally Posted by BothHands
The illustration below only guesses at the internal workings and the point of rotation. The second view is exaggerated, but by chance, is this what occurs when adjusting the neck backward in relation to the guitar body?
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All of this type of joint work in a similar way: a pivot point somewhere under the body joint fret and some type of adjustment mechanism. So your illustration is pretty right, except you have ringed the wrong pivot point. You have shown the pivot point in your drawing to the right of the place you have ringed. Delete the block which has the ring in the upper left and move the inclined plane toward the neck and other than that, as a concept drawing, it is correct. There are, however, considerable differences in the detailed engineering. The trick, as ever, is not only to make it work effectively, but also to make it simple to manufacture and use. One or two makers use a sliding mechanism (the plane of the fretboard moves "vertically" rather than tilting), which works fine but is quite a lot more complicated to build.
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Originally Posted by BothHands
When the neck is adjusted, it must move in relation to the body, so a "gap" probably occurs somewhere...
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The only gaps are those required for clearance so the neck will actually move. Too much finish and you have a problem... The sides of the heel are perpendicular to the sides of the guitar body for a short distance, so as the neck moves no gaps get larger or smaller. Same with the neck extension over the body. A gap does open beneath the penultimate fret, where the neck wood stops at the upper transverse brace and the fretboard continues on to the sound hole edge.
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Originally Posted by BothHands
I'm interested in other guitars now only because I realize now how much easier it is to play a wider neck.
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Yes, it makes a huge difference. Most of mine are in the 46-47mm wide zone at the nut, but as a custom builder the customer gets to choose anything they want.
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Originally Posted by Jim.S
In a year or so consider a trip to the real Crocodile Dundee's "Never Never Land"...
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Where Jim lives, guitars have a tendency to melt (think Salvador Dali clocks); a combination of high temps and high humidity. That's why he builds with a tilt neck. Just part of what you have to do for guitars to survive at latitude 12 degrees south. He complains of the cold when he's down here in a comfortable 28C, 45% RH!