Re: Gibson neck question
A 50 [mine] measures about 30mm wide at the nut, 12th is 10 mm wider..
depth of neck tapers as well ,
older A's [22] are a rounded triangular shape neck still a comfortable shape, for my hand,
as left hand treats mandolins differently,
thumb alongside the top-side of the neck, rather than behind it,
as with Guitars ... unless you have big hands , and long thumbs for the wraparound grip .
minor Radius-ing can be done with full re-frets on flat fingerboards , dots on the top edge are no longer centered, in the binding , of course..
Perhaps special order A 9s can be made with non deep V (Loar?) shaped necks.. ???
Last edited by mandroid; Dec-24-2008 at 4:28pm.
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