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Guitars are ultimately not intended to be bought mail-order. Tonewood specs and the kind of language used to describe pickups aren't particularly helpful either. Hell, some finishes are almost impossible to accurately photograph.
If you're that picky about neck shape, go to the place and pick up the thing. If you can't or won't, you're stuck with people's descriptions of a tapered half-cylinder.
But a picture of the profile at the 1st and 12th frets including width and depth measurements is very helpful once you know what you like. If manufacturers did this for all their guitars it would quickly become a useful reference e.g. “I know I like this C profile on my start which is .83” deep, so I know this other guitar is a little more at .87” and slightly more of a V profile”
I work in technical manufacturing. Some things are more work to develop a universal standard for than it's worth.
The current method of thin/fat/narrow/wide C, D, U, V and the width and depth at the nut and the 12th fret, combined with the fretboard radius and fretwire material are plenty for most people to get a very decent idea of what they're dealing with. As I said if they're pickier than that they would be well-advised to handle the item before purchase.
What I'm saying is that beyond the standards in use, any additional technical refinement will be irrelevant to people who aren't that fussy, and not good enough for people who are so fussy the current system isn't adequate.
The yard is nothing but a fence, the sun just hurts my eyes...
If you work in technical manufacturing I am now worried about the stuff you technically manufacture.
https://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/175295/describe-my-neck-with-accuracy#latest
Standards are for QA. For design you explicitly avoid setting standards because you don't want to waste a lot of time defining something you might then choose or need to change.
Let me rephrase the question: why do YOU think there isn't a standard chart or graph or whatever that says "this is the precise neck shape you will get when you buy this model from this manufacturer"?
The CNC will produce the same size/profile on each run, be it x's 100 or 1000 - But the neck will leave the CNC with cutting blade marks that need sanding out - Often by hand - This is were marginal variations come into play - many players can feel such marginal differences when they compare 2 'identical' necks
Furthermore - Many guitars are influenced by the past - Take an 58 LP or a 62 Strat - They were effectively built on a line by a number of workers - Me and you sat next to each other chatting away, are meant to craft the same neck, but there is always a difference - Such variations can now be copied and programmed into a CNC, and player A might want a 58 that is full and player B might want a 58 that is marginally slimmer
We all have different size hands - In many ways, regardless of how good your existing guitar is, it is the bench mark by which you may well often judge your next purchase
I don't think necks should be an engineered 'mold' as such - By I would agree that it makes it awkward to accurately describe a neck profile - On the web site I will generally quote a depth at the 1st + 12th fret, but it doesn't really tell you the shape and how much meat is on the shoulders
Dimensions
I don't know what you want me to say? I'm not the neck building guitar industry
I was going to say, there's something familiar about this question.
It seems to me you could only have a "standard" by requiring all manufacturers to choose from a limited number of standardised neck shapes, programming their CNC machines and barely touching what came out. Then periodically you could have "no-one expects the Spanish Inquisition" surprise inspections, where they'd be rapped over the knuckles for too much hand-sanding or rolling of fingerboard edges.