Indeed it is. I've never heard of a reissue having an A neck. I'd be extremley surprised if some did.manicsix wrote:Thanks.. That is a vintage neck right? If so, I know what to look for if I ever want an A neck. But originally, I was trying to find out if any reissues had A necks.James wrote:It's a '63 Musicmaster neck.manicsix wrote: Which model mustang was this, James?
I just spoke to a seller of a '69 reissue, and he assures me it's a B neck.
Reissue Mustangs: which neck width?
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It's very different to that. The strings are closer together, especially near the nut, but the neck can still be large. My neck is much chunkier than the MIM tele I used to have which had a C neck.manicsix wrote:I know for one I like thin necks (ESP Thin U for example), and hence I would like to try an A if I can find one.
You should think of it as 'x shaped neck' (C, U, thin U, V, etc) and A/B width nut. It's often called an A or B neck, or even an A or B width neck, but the A or B refers only to the width of the nut and therefore the string spacing at that end of the neck.
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manicsix
Thanks for this tip. I tried a '77 mustang and it had a really chunky (but B width) neck. I tried a '78 musicmaster and that had a very thin A neck - very fast indeed. All in all though, I think I can live with the B neck that comes on the reissues.James wrote:It's very different to that. The strings are closer together, especially near the nut, but the neck can still be large. My neck is much chunkier than the MIM tele I used to have which had a C neck.manicsix wrote:I know for one I like thin necks (ESP Thin U for example), and hence I would like to try an A if I can find one.
You should think of it as 'x shaped neck' (C, U, thin U, V, etc) and A/B width nut. It's often called an A or B neck, or even an A or B width neck, but the A or B refers only to the width of the nut and therefore the string spacing at that end of the neck.
I agree. Apparently there is no such thing as a 'U', some companies (retards) just adopted it from nowhere, it's a C or D neck. Some necks (Jacksons come to mind), are really wide at the nut but very thin and make me think of a D.Jagermeister wrote:In my vague handwriting, U, C and D are all the exact same shape anyway, and I'm not sure where people went off thinking they were different... The only one I can actively identify is V, because it sucks more. I like wide, very thin, flat necks though.