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Adam
That's fair enough, but is it just a 70 year convention, or does it make sense in the modern world?
I think it's mostly convention.
But Wez's point is very relevant, Fender decided on the bolt-on construction to cut costs and they probably did find that it worked better with maple than softer woods (just as they found that not having a truss rod was problematic). Maple, ash and alder may also have been cheaper than imported tropical hardwoods, I'd imagine?
That includes, SS1, SS2, first gen Chaparrals, TLEs, FBs, Blitz
Interesting examples of varying construction within the same models include the late 80’s/early 90s Sunbursts.
The variation was purely for strength because at the time the locking nuts had fixing bolts that went straight through the neck in the 80s and surface mounted from about 1990.
At the moment I'm looking for:
* Hamer SS2 & T62
* Music Man Luke 1
Please drop me a message.
Not on a Strat or a Tele (or Jag or Jazzmaster or Precision or Jazz bass etc). They use wood screws. The screws pass through the back of the body and the threaded end of the screw is driven into the neck wood (ie normally maple on the Fender guitars listed).
If the screw is threaded inside the Body it’s not pulling the neck tight down in the pocket... open up those screw holes and release the tonez!!!!!
Unless, for some bizarre personal challenge of phrasing, you're bolting your neck on straight through the top of the fingerboard, the neck does hold the thread!
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
Adam
I wouldn't do a bolt on mahogany neck without using inserts, or at least plugging with a wood that holds a thread better
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