Black Custom Shop Guitar+Amber Neck+SRV Pickups+7 Sound switching+Treble bleed circuit

Haywire Custom Guitars Custom shop has been in operation for many years and we are experienced in the needs of guitar players. We try and address issues they don’t know how to address.  One of the ways we accomplish this is to add custom necks onto guitars with features only seasoned guitar players would understand and appreciate. Let’s address guitar neck comfort and a wide guitar fret board.

For example, we’ll add a neck with a wider fret board so that the guitar player would have more room to move around on the guitar without the feeling of being crowded. We can only however go so wide and still maintain decent string alignment with the pickup pole pieces. As the nut widens, so also does the string spread at the heel of the neck.  To make it all work, we widen the fret board over a 16th of an inch on either side.  As a result, a normal string to fret board edge margin.  It’s wider over the full length of the neck and more space for the guitar player.

The benefits of a wide guitar fret board include but are not limited to: better action, better pull-offs. Most importantly, no crowded fingers when chording.  You’ll have easier finger placement, clearer notes and more real estate on the top of the fret board to play. It is just a building technique to add comfort for a guitar player that he/she cannot get from “off the rack” guitars.. There are real benefits to a custom extra wide necks and good luthier understands.  They know techniques to apply to an instrument so it will be easier to play. It’s done all the time at Haywire Custom Guitars. We know that guitarists need to improve their playing. Therefore, anything we can do to facilitate that will be appreciated.  Because in some cases a wide guitar fret board will increase comfort. Finally, we think about and apply these techniques every day in our shop for guitar players.