Smallman style adjustable neck construction

[schrammguitars]

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Here is a brief overview of how I make the Smallman style adjustable neck.


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[Kim]

Very cool, thank you David.

I used some 1/4" x 1/4" solid carbon fibre as the main neck support in a steel string a while back. The guitar was a bit of a factory clunker really, it was cheap and nasty with the neck having no heel and receiving scant support other than the thin ply of the body. Slow implosion was the only prognosis for any guitar of this model so I took it on as a challenge.

By using carbon in the upper transverse brace, and beefing up the linings, I was able to over come the design faults and that little guitar has held up extremely well. In fact my daughters fight over who gets to use it at practice time

Here's a link if you are interested:

viewtopic.php?t=1903&highlight=f111

Anyhooo, I really like carbon fibre and think it has great application in lutherie. The matey project opened my eyes and ever since I have been contemplating using it as you show here, as a pivot for an adjustable.

Thanks for sharing

Kim

[Allen]

Thanks for taking the time to make and post that David. I like that design alot.

Is there any way to adjust yaw in that design other than to remove material from either the treble or bass side of the CF pivot?

[Craig]

Thanks for posting this David . It looks a little like those Strat tilt necks. I've seen this set-up before and concluded it would need massive support near the transverse brace such as Smallmans large inner plywood cage .
One question : Why have a heel? Doesn't seem to be serving any purpose that I can work out ?

[Dom]

Craig, I read somewhere that Greg was making guitars without the heel. Presumably had the same conclusion as you.
Cheers
Dom

[Allen]

Aesthetics would be my first guess. Classical players are a pretty conservative lot, and no heel would be a bit much for most of them to accept.

[Kim]

Yes but a heeless neck does allow better access to the higher frets without the need for a cutaway.

Cheers

Kim

[Craig]

The alignment of the neck appears to be held by the pull of the strings alone . Wouldn't take much force to make the neck unstable IMO

[jeffhigh]

Pretty well locked in for alignment by the neck and heel sitting into mortices in the body.



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[ozwood]

Hi all ,

Justin Montifiore has been making Heel-less Classical's for quite a while , and are really well accepted as a serious classical Guitar Builder.

http://montefioreinstruments.com/Montef ... tar.html#1

a lot of his sales are international, take a look at his site some interesting stuff going on there ,he's a real thinker.

http://montefioreinstruments.com/Montef ... /Home.html


Paul.