Is there any practical difference between the front mount wood screw and rear mount machine screw style installations? The wood screw style reminds me of vintage style guitars and the rear mount reminds me of a Ibanez style guitars. If it’s just user preference, which do you prefer? Any reason for one over the other on a new neck?
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All the installs I’ve done were with the machine screws through the neck, just because that was the standard method.
I always wonder if the wood screws from the top hold the nut as well, but I haven’t heard of any pulling lose.
Routing the ledge is the tricky part.
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No matter what it would be a new neck with nut prep from one of the big manufacturers (Warmoth, Musikraft, etc.)Last edited by PFDarkside; 07-10-2020, 11:17 AM.
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Originally posted by ICTGoober View PostDrilling the holes through the headstock will weaken the peghead at a critical point. The screws from the topside hold very well.
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Originally posted by DavidRavenMoon View PostI always wonder if the wood screws from the top hold the nut as well, but I haven’t heard of any pulling lose.“I can play the hell out of a riff. The rest of it’s all bulls**t anyway,” Gary Holt
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Not on a Fender style neck. I have a Kramer with a hockey stick headstock that was once broken off, but the locking nut area was intact.aka Chris Pile, formerly of Six String Fever
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That type of break is much more common on thin-necked guitars, particularly early Ibanez with their Wizard profiles
That said, I'm a fan of the top-mount variety. The through-mount doesn't really offer any advantages that I can see other than being the "original" mounting style, but can, as Goober mentioned, potentially cause weakness in a critical area.
Top-mount nuts hold just fine
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Warmoth says that the top mounted screws occasionally pull loose, requiring some glue/stuff to add to the hole to hold in again. They recommend the rear screws for this reason. I've got one Floyd guitar with top screws and one guitar with rear screws - no problems with either.Join me in the fight against muscular atrophy!
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