What do you consider a straight neck?

[ItsaBass]

Re: What do you consider a straight neck?

man you are just a ball of sunshine aren't you? so much love and respect for your fellow forum members, I'm sure your mother must be so proud of you.

Why do you have to be such a piece of **** huh? It's just a question on a message board for all to learn from. What the **** is your problem? Did I bag your wife or girlfriend and haven't found out about it? I don't think so.

Dude... You write and do dopey things over and over and over and over, and continually fail to listen to good advice or learn from anything. You throw emotional, immature, angry, insulting fits when someone presses you on why the hell you have made such dopey statements or actions. But you apparently expect "love and respect!" Have you ever thought about the idea that maybe your actions and statements dictate that you don't really deserve all that so freely? You have my human respect; otherwise I wouldn't bother responding to anything you write. But you certainly don't deserve a whole lot of intellectual respect here, so you shouldn't expect it. That's on you.

I am not a piece of **** because I lightheartedly mess with you for doing and saying dumb stuff. People should be messed with for that, so that they hopefully stop doing it. That's what peers or friends do.

My "problem" is that despite all attempts to like you and help you from many people on this forum, including myself, you continue to write and do dumb stuff. It's incredibly frustrating.

Bottom line, quit doing and saying dopey stuff, and you'll find that people magically start to "respect" your intellect, and probably won't poke at you so much.

 

[dave74]

Re: What do you consider a straight neck?

I play very lightly on a scalloped neck, and the elliptical vibrating pattern of the string doesn't cause buzzing for me, although most people can't play my guitars.

That's been exactly my findings also. A tad less than half mm means a very-light touch required. Half mm or a sliver over that opens it up more for dig'n-in, and once it gets to about 2/3 mm it starts getting too high and negatively affecting play/intonation.
Once it's down to around 1/4 mm it becomes impossible to play expressively without buzz, even with a very soft touch.

 

[Kleegort]

Re: What do you consider a straight neck?

i like a relatively straight neck, .005-.007"
I dont measure any more because I know what it looks like when its around .005-.007
basically I sight the neck and if I can just make out a curve its right where its supposed to be.
If no curve resolves, its needs to be loosened, if too much curve it needs to be tightened.

I find too straight plays stiff, and too much curve feels weird.

 

[greekdude]

Re: What do you consider a straight neck?

straight on high E, some relief on low A (yeah I mean drop A)

 

[astrozombie]

Re: What do you consider a straight neck?

Cool your boots, man.

Glenn. A few years back, you started a thread in which you announced that you were now a guitar tech followed by the question, "how much should I charge?"

You may have forgotten this. Others have not. Somebody who really is a guitar tech should not really need to ask about neck relief or inlay gluing. Expect to get teased.

Yes, but all I did was ask for an OPINION on what some people CONSIDER a straight neck.

Why? Because the definition varies from player to player. I wanted a consensus.

Does it seem fair to be ridiculed because of that? Honestly.

 

[astrozombie]

Re: What do you consider a straight neck?

Dude... You write and do dopey things over and over and over and over, and continually fail to listen to good advice or learn from anything. You throw emotional, immature, angry, insulting fits when someone presses you on why the hell you have made such dopey statements or actions. But you apparently expect "love and respect!" Have you ever thought about the idea that maybe your actions and statements dictate that you don't really deserve all that so freely? You have my human respect; otherwise I wouldn't bother responding to anything you write. But you certainly don't deserve a whole lot of intellectual respect here, so you shouldn't expect it. That's on you.

I am not a piece of **** because I lightheartedly mess with you for doing and saying dumb stuff. People should be messed with for that, so that they hopefully stop doing it. That's what peers or friends do.

My "problem" is that despite all attempts to like you and help you from many people on this forum, including myself, you continue to write and do dumb stuff. It's incredibly frustrating.

Bottom line, quit doing and saying dopey stuff, and you'll find that people magically start to "respect" your intellect, and probably won't poke at you so much.

The solution is simple: do not comment on my threads. Is that so hard? There are pages and pages and pages of content. Why don't you just stick to threads where you can say something nice?

I do have a right to be upset. I do not understand why I am targeted by you. Where you having a bad day?

You don't know me- AT ALL. Is it possible you're frustrated about something else?

I forgive you, you must be going through something. It makes no sense to start to hate a stranger from across the internet...

You're saying that I don't deserve respect so freely? Are you kidding?

I can stand for many things on this forum, the helpful information, the threads they used to do with SD artists.. but not for this rude judgement of my person because of an internet post.

I do not care what you or anyone else says: it's wrong.

and as for the dumb questions: there's something to learn from everyone. Maybe I just didn't want to keep experimenting with my $2400 guitar. It's my bread-winner.

 

[dave74]

Re: What do you consider a straight neck?

I contend that much of the differences from one player to another has more to do with method of measurement than it does with actual preference variation, although there's certainly some of that going on as well.
Trying to slide a feeler between a curving fret and the string is bound to make people think that a smaller feeler is filling the gap, thereby leading them to believe they have less relief than they actually do.
Comparing he thickness of a feeler-gauge or a common sized thin guitar pick with the relief gap by holding them together and getting your eyes up close is much more accurate IMO.

Dug out the manual that came with my RGT,,,,,,,,,,I was wrong before, it doesn't say .5mm, it says BETWEEN .3mm and .5mm for standard gauge sizes (9-42 I assume)

just for reference;
.01" is right on .25mm
.02" = .5mm
ect.,,,

 

[Chad]

Re: What do you consider a straight neck?

straight on high E, some relief on low A (yeah I mean drop A)

In other words, a twisted neck?

 

[stevie_bees]

Re: What do you consider a straight neck?

Lighten up in here fellas.