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Old 05-20-2020, 05:09 PM
bcopeland8900 bcopeland8900 is offline
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Default Heel or no?

Any experience out there with heel-less Emeralds? How does the lack if heel impact the sound? Anything noticable? Looking at an X20 mod.

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Old 05-20-2020, 08:30 PM
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My X10 doesn't have a heel... but, they didn't make any of this generation with a heel so nothing to compare it to.

I've heard that any difference in construction has some (perhaps imperceptible) difference in tone. My X20 has a heel - I haven't noticed any difficulty in the reach, and the tone is great.
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Old 05-21-2020, 06:14 AM
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I have a heelless X30 and an X20 with a heel. There's nothing wrong with either design IMO but I think the heelless design is clever and it gets my vote. I doubt either design would have an impact on the tonal properties of the guitar and if it did it would be so subtle to not worry about it.
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Old 05-21-2020, 07:36 AM
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My X10 doesn't have a heel... but, they didn't make any of this generation with a heel so nothing to compare it to.



I've heard that any difference in construction has some (perhaps imperceptible) difference in tone. My X20 has a heel - I haven't noticed any difficulty in the reach, and the tone is great.
Thanks. My x20 has a heel and since i am looking at #2, I am investigating all options.

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Old 05-21-2020, 07:39 AM
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I have a heelless X30 and an X20 with a heel. There's nothing wrong with either design IMO but I think the heelless design is clever and it gets my vote. I doubt either design would have an impact on the tonal properties of the guitar and if it did it would be so subtle to not worry about it.
Thank you. I expected the sound impact to be small or not noticable, but without being able to hear it, I depend on the opinions of virtual buddies.
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Old 05-21-2020, 08:46 AM
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I have a heelless X30 and an X20 with a heel.....
Same here. I'm not sure that I have a preference either way on Emeralds, because both seem to work well for me. I can reach as far up the neck as I need to and easily. On my Blackbird Lucky 13 not having a neck heel is a real benefit. I can reach up to fret #17 comfortably even without a cutaway, because there is no neck heel in the way.
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Old 05-21-2020, 02:13 PM
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I have an x7 which of course heeless, I like it so much Im concisdering ordering a x20 short scale heeless 12 fret.
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Old 05-21-2020, 03:04 PM
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Definitely love the lack of a heel on my X10 level 2. That neck is such a pleasure to play. Next on my list is an X30 and I will ask for the X10 neck.
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