Benefits Of Wider Fret Boards Include: Better Action, Pull-offs, No Crowded Fingers
Wider Fret Boards
We can add from 1-11/16″ wider fret boards to 2-1/8″ for players who need it.
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 guitarists would understand and appreciate.
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. This results in a normal string to fret board edge margin over the full length of the neck.
The benefits of the wider fret boards
The benefits of the wider fret boards 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 necks and a good luthier who understands what techniques to apply to an instrument so it will be easier to play. We do it all the time. They know that guitarists need to improve their playing and anything they can do to facilitate that will be appreciated. We think about and apply these techniques every day in our shop for our customers.
Our wider fret boards and 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.
“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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