nonpartisanartisan
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Re: Fender BIG headstock "more resonance/sustain and tone"?
Look of the neck as a mass loaded spring where the spring is also a "wood capacitor." The wood capacitor absorbs some frequencies and resonates/transmits others. Tone woods tend to work in our preferred frequencies but no two pieces are the same. Factor in the body and you have a two spring system with two difference "wood capacitors."
Some pieces of wood are better than others... "a dog is a dog" and you can add weights or shoot bullet holes in the thing and some necks just won't come out and play.
Adding mass - the real place where mass would matter would be in the main part of the neck. Change the shape & wood for a change in mass and the frequency transmission/absorption.
A good neck may still fight with a good body. If you don't like one you can try another.
The size of the headstock becomes an ego preference. The bigger change in resonance will be had from changing string tension - lighter/heavier strings and drop tunings.
For strat lovers changing the number of strings and the mass of the trem block is another factor.
I say find a headstock you think looks cool and if it doesn't make you happy try changing tunings, strings and springs first.
Take my comments with a grain of salt. I'm an idiot as my wife would testify.
Look of the neck as a mass loaded spring where the spring is also a "wood capacitor." The wood capacitor absorbs some frequencies and resonates/transmits others. Tone woods tend to work in our preferred frequencies but no two pieces are the same. Factor in the body and you have a two spring system with two difference "wood capacitors."
Some pieces of wood are better than others... "a dog is a dog" and you can add weights or shoot bullet holes in the thing and some necks just won't come out and play.
Adding mass - the real place where mass would matter would be in the main part of the neck. Change the shape & wood for a change in mass and the frequency transmission/absorption.
A good neck may still fight with a good body. If you don't like one you can try another.
The size of the headstock becomes an ego preference. The bigger change in resonance will be had from changing string tension - lighter/heavier strings and drop tunings.
For strat lovers changing the number of strings and the mass of the trem block is another factor.
I say find a headstock you think looks cool and if it doesn't make you happy try changing tunings, strings and springs first.
Take my comments with a grain of salt. I'm an idiot as my wife would testify.
