HELP ! Need Info on Franky's 1st neck.

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Post by MARCO » Mon Apr 21, 2008 2:39 pm

If James Duffy (Frankenstraat) owns the real neck and is making clones of the neck then the neck was 1-11/16th wide and a thick c-shaped profile w/ jumbo pyramid shape frets....I have one of his necks and thjey are nice. I personally shaved mine down a little.
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Post by blfrd » Mon Apr 21, 2008 2:48 pm

MARCO wrote:If James Duffy (Frankenstraat) owns the real neck and is making clones of the neck then the neck was 1-11/16th wide and a thick c-shaped profile w/ jumbo pyramid shape frets....I have one of his necks and thjey are nice. I personally shaved mine down a little.
Dumb question-

How did he come to own the neck? Does he have a website?
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Post by Strat78 » Mon Apr 21, 2008 3:28 pm

blfrd wrote:
MARCO wrote:If James Duffy (Frankenstraat) owns the real neck and is making clones of the neck then the neck was 1-11/16th wide and a thick c-shaped profile w/ jumbo pyramid shape frets....I have one of his necks and thjey are nice. I personally shaved mine down a little.
Dumb question-

How did he come to own the neck? Does he have a website?
Poke around evh.com: "frankenstraats dungeon"(?) to find out. I love how this thread has degenerated into a tangle of misinformation. I believe Mr. Duffy owns the duck beak neck that is pictured here. Who f'n cares!

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Post by Tone Slinger » Mon Apr 21, 2008 5:17 pm

Yeah, I'm not really into any of the different necks Ed has had on his Franky, EXCEPT, that first one. I swear, just from different picture angles, I've pretty much deciphered in detail all it's (1st neck) dimensions.

Here's something to ponder though,

If you have a 1 3/4 nut width and a 1 5/8 nut, wouldnt that make the strings sorta 'crooked' going to the tuning machines ? Wouldnt that impair tuning when using the bar ?

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Post by blfrd » Tue Apr 22, 2008 10:25 am

Tone Slinger wrote: If you have a 1 3/4 nut width and a 1 5/8 nut, wouldnt that make the strings sorta 'crooked' going to the tuning machines ? Wouldnt that impair tuning when using the bar ?

I wouldn't think it would make that much difference.

How bout this one:

http://www.guitarpartsresource.com/guitar_nutsbrass.htm
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Post by Tone Slinger » Tue Apr 22, 2008 10:57 am

Yeah, I wouldnt think it would make that much difference, especially since Ed had the string slots in the brass extra big.

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Post by harddriver » Wed Apr 30, 2008 2:56 pm

Hey Toneslinger,

I finally got around to blueprinting my # 1 1983 Kramer C series #36XX neck. This neck was unfinished from the factory on the back with satin laquer on the fretboard, the neck and neck pocket are dead straight routed with no degreed slant to it at all. I have another C series #45XX the neck is the same but all laquered and the neck pocket is angled.

I had to wait on my radius gauges to come.

Heres what I got with digital calipers and radius gauges.

Thickness @ 1st fret 0.830" - 0.835" @ 12th fret 0.935"- 0.940"

Nut width 1.611"(1 5/8") Heel width 2.185" (2 3/16")

Neck radius was 12" exact.

Frest used to be Jumbo 6100 but they are wore down now and have been dressed a couple of times. They measure .103" wide and .035" tall now.

For me this has been the most comfortable neck out of any guitar I have owned.

Finally with all my info I ordered a Musikraft Charvel style neck to all these specs with 6100 frets for my last strat Jake E Lee guitar. I ended up getting the SRV asymetrical profile .840" first fret .970 12 fret. That was pretty close because that all they offered with the express necks, I figured the profile will take away some of the meatiness of the .970 at the 12th fret.

I hope it feels like my old Kramer neck does! :wink:

I couldn't complain about the $185.00 price tage versus Warmoth I would have been closer to $300.00. Their necks look top notch.

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Post by Tone Slinger » Wed Apr 30, 2008 3:57 pm

Yeah, Musikraft do great work, I got a copy of a laminate board (maple on maple) late 60's style strat neck from them. It's great !

One good thing about getting a neck with the back slightly bigger is that you can file and sand it down to your specs, which you cant do if it's TOO thin. Since you have the Kramer neck to go by, this should be easy for you to do. Keep in mind though, that adding a hard finnish to it will make it a little bigger. Tung oil doesnt make it any bigger though. I only like nitro on 100% vintage style guitar's like my old Tokai. I like tung oil on my super strats.

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Post by DivebombInc » Fri May 02, 2008 5:57 pm

Carved this neck recently and I used an old Boogie Bodies Neck as my template.
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Post by sah5150 » Fri May 02, 2008 6:58 pm

DivebombInc wrote:Carved this neck recently and I used an old Boogie Bodies Neck as my template.
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Looks killer. Nice job!

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Post by rgorke » Fri May 02, 2008 8:28 pm

DivebombInc wrote:Carved this neck recently and I used an old Boogie Bodies Neck as my template.
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That's beautiful!!

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Post by Tone Slinger » Sun May 04, 2008 9:06 pm

Yeah, that looks great ! I cringe when I see the floyd nut shelve though. I also dont think a strat neck looks 'correct' with a 22nd fret.

I think the most perfect looking neck I've ever seen is the origional neck that Ed had on his Franky, from aproximatly 77-early 79.

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Post by Strat78 » Sun May 04, 2008 10:35 pm

Tone Slinger wrote:I think the most perfect looking neck I've ever seen is the origional neck that Ed had on his Franky, from aproximatly 77-early 79.
Yep, everything about that first guitar was simply entrancing, an absolute one of a kind and I'm not just talking about the paint job.

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Post by rgorke » Sun May 04, 2008 11:00 pm

I agree, that neck was purdy.

Is the darker color on the head stock from stain or is the wood that dark?
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Post by DivebombInc » Mon May 05, 2008 10:01 am

There's no stain; it's a 2-piece, but I made it from the same blank. I just flipped the fingerboard over for strength and that's the color difference you see. It;s only got a little Satin Nitro on it and that was rubbed out per customer specs.

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