• The shop specifically advertises guitar neck shaving, thinning, and re-profiling services.
• They are able to duplicate the dimensions of a neck you already like, ensuring a precise and comfortable result.
• The service includes a refinish of the neck to protect the wood after shaving.
• The advertised turnaround time is two days or less once they receive the neck.
• You can bring/ship in your whole guitar or ship just the neck.

Haywire-Custom-Guitars-refurbishes guitars, shaves necks and sets up guitars.

Neck thickness should be chosen for what best fits your hands, not the “tone” it has.  Furthermore, that should be the major consideration in the choice of your new neck. The timbre of a fat vs. thin neck is rarely noticeable, because most of the tone comes from your playing technique–not the wood.

On an electric guitar, tones are affected by everything from amplification to pedals, pickups, pickup height, strings, picks, technique to speakers and enclosures. With all of those influences on your sound how much does “wood thickness” affect the tone? Not much.

Acoustic and Electric Guitar Neck Shaving Is a Viable Option for Maximum Comfort

In a live playing situation “wood tones” in an electric guitar are much less noticeable.  Let’s say everything is equal and the guitar is perfectly in tune and intoned.  The overall sound of your guitar, on a rare occasion, may be affected by a fatter/ thicker neck but realistically only when you are playing without the guitar plugged in to an amp. Most of all, high gain electric guitar tone is very much dependent on a player’s technique and comfort with his instrument and not the thickness of a neck. Therefore, guitar neck shaving is a viable option for comfort without changing the sound of the instrument.