Fender Slab Board Neck : Vintage Guitars Info Fender Collecting Vintage Guitars Fender Stratocaster Strat Telecaster Tele : The neck is maple with a brazilian rosewood slab board.. A slab board would start with the surface of the neck being planed flat. Hi all can anyone shed some light on fender maple fret boards? Limited edition parallel universe '51 telecaster bass neck, 20 narrow tall frets, maple. The stratocaster of 1960 changed little from the strat of 1959. Standard series jazz bass® lh neck, 20 medium jumbo frets, pau ferro.
It is common opinion that this step was due to the desire to save the rosewood, even if, according to dan smith, leo decided to use the veneer fretboard only because of the different. It had a slight curvature and just barely goes into the top of the truss rod screw, so i don't think it's a slab board. Slab for rosewood fretboards laminate vs. I prefer a slab, they take more refrets. Fender started the '60s strong introducing new models like the jaguar and the jazz bass.
Fender did rosewood necks that way after about 1962,iirc. Fender custom shop dale wilson masterbuilt 1960 stratocaster heavy relic brazilian rosewood slab board 3 tone sunburst. The musicmaster family also used slab fingerboards (usually indian rosewood) for about a year from sept 1965 to oct 1966. Also shown is the difference between reissue and original slab board necks. Smith from 1959 to 1965 all fender guitars and basses had 3 distinct versions of the rosewood board. The first was flat on the bottom surface where it joined the neck. Fender american professional telecaster tele neck solid rosewood 0993960921. Read* i am not claiming that this is areal fender neck.
Slab board stratocasters (from 1959 to 1962) are very desirable due to extensive use from stevie ray vaughan.
From the book fender , the sound heard round the world by richard r. Hi all can anyone shed some light on fender maple fret boards? Fender did rosewood necks that way after about 1962,iirc. The neck is maple with a brazilian rosewood slab board. Also shown is the difference between reissue and original slab board necks. The edges would be thinner and the center thickest. Bare knuckle pickups pat pend '63 veneer board neck. Rosewood fingerboard, slab (brazilian), 1958 to 1962: The nut is original as are the frets. The neck continued to be made in a t. Fender knew that people wanted slab boards on the reissues, so decided to call it a '62 because this was the changeover year between slab and veneer, so if they did have neck problems and needed to go to a veneer, they could still call it a '62 and not have to change the catalogs, price lists etc. Fender custom shop dale wilson masterbuilt 1960 stratocaster heavy relic brazilian rosewood slab board 3 tone sunburst. However, now fender switched over to a rubber stamp as.
Fender custom shop dale wilson masterbuilt 1960 stratocaster heavy relic brazilian rosewood slab board 3 tone sunburst. 60 style oval c scale length: It had a slight curvature and just barely goes into the top of the truss rod screw, so i don't think it's a slab board. Also shown is the difference between reissue and original slab board necks. Fender american professional jaguar neck rosewood 0994010921.
A slab board would start with the surface of the neck being planed flat. It seems to be somewhere between the brighter sounding solid maple neck/board & the darker sounding rosewood. Some of the specifications used to authenticate this guitar: The image below is from around 1959 and shows a worker in the fender factory with a huge folder's coffee can full of those white fiberboard cutouts putting them into slab board necks. This is a nice example of a 1962 fender duo sonic or musicmaster vintage neck, with a slab, not curved, fretboard and original frets. Fender custom shop dale wilson masterbuilt 1960 stratocaster heavy relic brazilian rosewood slab board 3 tone sunburst. 1962 fender stratocaster neck dating. The neck is maple with a brazilian rosewood slab board.
Fender started the '60s strong introducing new models like the jaguar and the jazz bass.
The slugs became slightly narrower in diameter and the extra space on the bobbin allowed the coils to be wound a little hotter, to add beef to balance the narrow. The musicmaster family also used slab fingerboards (usually indian rosewood) for about a year from sept 1965 to oct 1966. Also shown is the difference between reissue and original slab board necks. Fender american professional precision bass neck with rosewood fingerboard. The clay dots and clay side dots on this look great, as does the slab brazilian fretboard. 60 style oval c scale length: The top surface of that rosewood would then be radiused. Fender custom shop dale wilson masterbuilt 1960 stratocaster heavy relic brazilian rosewood slab board 3 tone sunburst. Fender knew that people wanted slab boards on the reissues, so decided to call it a '62 because this was the changeover year between slab and veneer, so if they did have neck problems and needed to go to a veneer, they could still call it a '62 and not have to change the catalogs, price lists etc. At first, the rosewood cap remained fairly thick, but by 1963, this turned into a thinner veneer. Standard series jazz bass® lh neck, 20 medium jumbo frets, pau ferro. Fender american professional jaguar neck rosewood 0994010921. From the book fender , the sound heard round the world by richard r.
Being that they are a thicker piece of wood, they have a slightly different tone and response than the later laminate boards. It had a slight curvature and just barely goes into the top of the truss rod screw, so i don't think it's a slab board. The kluson tuners are in great shape, showing traces of light corrosion, but maintaining tuning perfectly. The first was flat on the bottom surface where it joined the neck. I'm wondering if it's fake or if fender really made something like that.
Fender american professional jaguar neck rosewood 0994010921. Read* i am not claiming that this is areal fender neck. The kluson tuners are in great shape, showing traces of light corrosion, but maintaining tuning perfectly. My limited understanding is that a maple cap (lam) board was available as a special. This one has been played a lot and was in doyle bramhall ii's arsenal for a while. I prefer a slab, they take more refrets. This guitar, a 1960 fender stratocaster slab board. From the book fender , the sound heard round the world by richard r.
The musicmaster family also used slab fingerboards (usually indian rosewood) for about a year from sept 1965 to oct 1966.
Read* i am not claiming that this is areal fender neck. It had a slight curvature and just barely goes into the top of the truss rod screw, so i don't think it's a slab board. Rosewood fingerboard, slab (brazilian), 1958 to 1962: From the book fender , the sound heard round the world by richard r. However, now fender switched over to a rubber stamp as. Fender started the '60s strong introducing new models like the jaguar and the jazz bass. The image below is from around 1959 and shows a worker in the fender factory with a huge folder's coffee can full of those white fiberboard cutouts putting them into slab board necks. My limited understanding is that a maple cap (lam) board was available as a special. Standard series jazz bass® lh neck, 20 medium jumbo frets, pau ferro. Fender american professional precision bass neck with rosewood fingerboard. The neck continued to be made in a t. The clay dots and clay side dots on this look great, as does the slab brazilian fretboard. The edges would be thinner and the center thickest.
The kluson tuners are in great shape, showing traces of light corrosion, but maintaining tuning perfectly fender board. Fender did rosewood necks that way after about 1962,iirc.