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A Cantilever Neck Design

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In this video I talk about the guitar I am currently building, an Indian rosewood rb-00 that is going to feature a cantilever neck. I detail some of the specifics about how I am designing the body to accommodate the neck extension and how it differs from two common methods, but by no means the only methods, of doing this on steel string acoustics. This guitar will feature a compound radius top to create a dip in the upper bout of the guitar. I also talk a little about how I have gone about to accurately set the compound radius in the top.
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31 июл 2024

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@sallyconnolly3723 3 года назад

I found this fascinating - Came across it by accident when I was googling luthiers. I play the uke and had no idea of the complexity of construction of stringed instruments especially the matter of a cantilever neck. Will pass the info on to friends who are luthiers and/or play the guitar. Thanks..

@wallygoots 6 месяцев назад

This is helpful. I love how you innovate and design your own solution based on experience and modification. My first guitar was a mess at the neck and ended up being a 13.5 frets to the body. :) I hope to achieve high precision with the next and use a cantilever neck too.

@sarahtsalbins847 3 года назад

Thanks for illuminating this process! Curious to see this build progress... And I see you have a very helpful/ adorable shop assistant 😻

@sarahtsalbins847 3 года назад

cantilever & CAT-ilever

@michaelbell3540 2 года назад

I love your design!! This is exactly what I was looking for to build my next guitar. I hope you continue making more videos during your build. I will also checkout the GAL article that you referenced. Good luck. I think it's going to be a winner!

@QueenCityGuitars 2 года назад

Thanks! I think I have one more, maybe two for this guitar and then I will put up a sound demonstartion/wrap up video when I get the finish done and strings on. The Gal article is great, though I personally just could not wrap my head around making the twisted portion of the design, some day I will hopefully get to see one of her guitars in person and then it will maybe click. I will say that there are a couple things about the design I want to tweak and while I have confidence in it, and so I hesitate to 100% sign off on it till I have had strings on it for a bit, but I am just about to start putting shellac on it and I am liking how it has come together so far.

@gtibruce 2 года назад

@@QueenCityGuitars When it comes to adjusting intonation with these necks and it shows flat on some strings would that mean the bridge saddle has to be altered where if it was sharp a simple readjustment of the neck angle would do it which i can adjust on my guitar but the other way would be more complicated?

@MoGiMaL 3 года назад

I’m just finishing my first neck joint, and also have a 30’ radius on the whole top. I planned on a raised fretboard extension (still touching and glued to the top, not cantilevered), because I thought I would need one for the correct geometry. But when I sanded a flat in to the extension area I found out I’d (somehow!?) ended up with the correct angle there and didn’t need any extra angle from a wedge to get there. I’ve decided to raise the extension anyway for the playability in the high registers. I’m really curious about the tonal impact and would like to find out what other builders have noticed while trying this. All I’ve heard is a “more bell-like tone” from a more upwards pull on the soundboard. When you do your normal neck joint is it easy to get the neck angle right with the 30’ radius top with no flattening of the radius on the upper bout, or did I end up sanding a lot to get there?

@MoGiMaL 3 года назад

Great explanation, btw, and your jointed neck block extension and upper transverse braces look great. I wanted to do that as well.

@QueenCityGuitars 3 года назад

I am not sure I understand your first procedure and why you need a raised extension for the correct geometry? Setting the neck angle as I have known it to be done involves cutting the neck heel so that the top of the neck (where the fretboard lies) and the upper bout of the top are more or less in plane accounting for a rise as you move back to the saddle to accommodate the rise needed in the strings. Doing it that way one just has a small amount of flattening to do to remove the radius under the fretboard extension. I normally find the natural curve lies in the correct angle and just need to flatten down the middle high spot.

@MoGiMaL 3 года назад

@@QueenCityGuitars I got instructions from another builder, and I was under the impression from him that because of the entire top being domed instead of what many other builders do, which is take out the dome from the upper bout, flattening in an angle for the fretboard trajectory, that one would have to sand too much of the top out to get the right trajectory with the uninterrupted dome. The builder I got the instructions from is a very high end builder using a 25’ dome. I was just surprised I easily got to the correct angle with what I thought was just a little sanding. Perhaps it just takes that much less sanding on a 30’ vs 25’. I’m pretty sure that was his explanation for why he uses a raised extension, to preserve the dome all around.

@QueenCityGuitars 3 года назад

I've never built a 25' top, so its possible. I learned the method of using a flat upper bout first and used it for a while, but I have found that everything goes together a lot easier and cleaner with the radius in the upper bout.