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Just curious as to what neck thickness you aim for on your steel strings....at the 1st & 9th?

If it's up to me, I like 55/64" (or you could say a 64th under 7/8") at 1st fret and 61/64" at 9th

Chuck

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.850 @#1... .900@ #9

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JJ
Napa, CA
http://www.DonohueGuitars.com

21mm & 24mm

I always find a 15 1/2 a bit tight on the throat, really bugs me, so I'll always go with a 16.

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If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason. - Jack Handey

I find 17 is nice but 17 1/2 is better. Sometimes a 17 fits as good as a 17 1/2 - too bad that now you find some that are just marked L or XL and there is no real number. Too bad the youngins will probably not learn how to a tie a Windsor.

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It's this new idea from recent decades that everyone gets a participation award. - MUX

16 and 17 1/2 ...gees you dudes must be built like a horse...but then me just a little guy with at 14 1/2. and about the younguns not knowing nothin about a Windsor knot... me know a lotta old timers can't get the noose right. nothin but nothin beats pure silk in a double Windsor.

and for you that don't know what we talking about...a tee shirt with a painted on tie is right up yer ally.

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Depends on the customer's request, but if nothing is mentioned, I aim for 22-23ish mm, throughout the entire neck.

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Alain Moisan
Former full time builder of Acoustics, Classicals and Flamencos.
(Now building just for fun!)

I like a shallow neck for feel....BUT my biggest issue (as a player) is the standard specs on width to be the most annoying. I prefer a wider fretboard for a SS than what standards SS makers have embraced.

KB

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Customer dependant, but usually between .800 and .820 at the first C shape, add 20-40 for a soft V), and then add to that 60 to 100 for the 10th fret.

I bought some neck templates from Tracy, and it amazed me how thick some of the Martins are 860 and 872 (although teh 30 OM was 805). A student has a '55 J50 and its .900 and 1.something ... veyr baseball bat, but narrow, adn somewhat comfy. I could get used to it.

For me personally, its 820-830, or 850 V, and then add 80 -100.

not everyones hand finds any one given neck size comfy.

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Tony Karol
www.karol-guitars.com
"let my passion .. fulfill yours"

.820 - .830" at the first fret and about .080 thicker at the 8th or 9th fret.

kinda depends on what someone wants but on our latest the specs are:

@ nut- .875
@ 5th fret- .963
@ 11th fret- 1.042

this includes a .25 thick fretboard with a 16" radius. the guitar is a 3/4 slope dread with a 22'' scale and 1.812 nut width and a lazy c profile

Electric:
nut: 20 mm
12th fret: 22 mm

Measurements? Scantlings, would like to help you out but...
Duh Padma builds by the seat of me pants, and the feeling in me gut or in this case me hand or the hand thats laying down the bucks.

No two the same...sorta like peoples.


blessings
Padma

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Arie if you don't mind, what guage of strings are you using with that 22" scale?

21/22 mm C section, 22/24 mm V section and same on asymetrical section last 2 builds (these were Hot Rod truss rods and as they were deeper than previous rods had to allow a little extra meat for the back of neck) all acoustic 6 strings, 1 x OOO, 3 x OMs.

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The name catgut is confusing. There are two explanations for the mix up.

Catgut is an abbreviation of the word cattle gut. Gut strings are made from sheep or goat intestines, in the past even from horse, mule or donkey intestines.

Otherwise it could be from the word kitgut or kitstring. Kit meant fiddle, not kitten.