We can add wide guitar necks for Strats and Telecasters. Or, to any guitar. However if you have large hands we have some special necks just for you! You have a choice at Haywire Custom Shop of: 1-7/8″, 2″ or 2-1/8″ widths with 22 frets.
Our wide guitar necks are for BIG guys. You know who you are and so do we.
If your fingers are big, small neck guitars leave much to be desired with no room for movement. If you’re a big guy with a standard guitar neck, it’s not going to feel right. The standard width guitar neck will be too small for you. If you have a size 15 foot you need a size 15 shoe. Let us get you the right neck for your hand size. We are musicians working for musicians-let us work for you and get you the right equipment to be your best!
Start with the right equipment. Please don’t let your guitar neck be a roadblock to your success. Bigger guys, with bigger fingers, need bigger necks. Get wide guitar necks for each of your guitars.
Why wide guitar necks?
The Benefits Of Wider Fret Boards Include: Better Action, Pull-offs, No Crowded Fingers !
The body wood is Swamp Ash with an Amber clear over the wood. Grain can be seen lightly through finish The string spread at the nut is approximately 1-7/8″ and at the bridge it is 2″. The scale length is a standard 25-1/2″. Speed loader bridge.
Wide Guitar Necks
Wide guitar necks are better for players with bigger hands or who want more Neck space in between each string to facilitate fretting notes more cleanly. A wider nut offers more separation between the strings at the head stock end of the neck. The width of necks, and their shape as well, will suit certain players more than others. Often, it’s a case of the size and shape you need, and also the kind of playing preferred.
If you have a size 13 foot, you need a size 13 shoe. Stop any roadblocks to your success as a guitar player. Get the right equipment for you.
If you want to play great! Start with the right equipment for YOU:
This guitar was built and designed for bigger guys, who have bigger fingers. The wider 2″ nut installed is much wider and meets the standards of larger players and finger pickers, who need and appreciate the “extra room” between the strings.
Benefits of Wide Guitar Necks
The benefits of the wider fret board include but are not limited to: better action, better pull-offs, no crowded fingers when chording, easier finger placement, clearer notes and more real estate on the top of the fret board for the guitarist to play. It is just a building technique to add comfort to playing a guitar that you cannot get from “off the rack” instruments in a music store.
There are real benefits to a custom extra wide neck and a good luthier who understands what techniques to apply to an instrument so it will be easier to play.
The great tone will respond to the subtle nuances of your technique, allowing expression of musical ideas with clarity and precision.
It feels “broken in” and comfortable right out of the box.
Customers who want special custom shop guitars and features without the custom shop prices, here we are. Thanks again for your support, patronage of our dedicated custom shop and confidence in our abilities.
“We are musicians working for musicians”. Thanks for letting us work for you.
In conclusion, why provide 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? Simply because, “We’re musicians working for musicians”. We get it. We’re here for players that need us. Thanks for asking us to work for you.
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