350 & 300 Necks, Volutes & Heels: A Visual Comparison
Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 3:17 pm
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350 & 300 Necks, Volutes & Heels: A Visual Comparison
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Re: 350 & 300 Necks, Volutes & Heels: A Visual Comparison
Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 3:48 pm
Classic example of being handmade. Nothing finer!
Re: 350 & 300 Necks, Volutes & Heels: A Visual Comparison
Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 5:48 pm
Is it an optical illusion - or is the headstock on the right actually longer? Maybe it's the shadow ... or my old eyes .. 
Dennis
Dennis
Re: 350 & 300 Necks, Volutes & Heels: A Visual Comparison
Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2012 3:25 pm
Hey Dennis,
Your eyes are dead-on. The 350 on the left is sitting just the slightest bit down on the couch cushion from the 300 on the right. It makes the 300 neck on right look a bit longer; I think they are the same length.
Good eye.
Al
Your eyes are dead-on. The 350 on the left is sitting just the slightest bit down on the couch cushion from the 300 on the right. It makes the 300 neck on right look a bit longer; I think they are the same length.
Good eye.
Al
Re: 350 & 300 Necks, Volutes & Heels: A Visual Comparison
Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2012 7:49 pm
just goes to show every mosrite piece is a one of a kind 
I should take a picture of my three 70's model's neck profile and post them here
I should take a picture of my three 70's model's neck profile and post them here
Re: 350 & 300 Necks, Volutes & Heels: A Visual Comparison
Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2012 7:49 pm
just goes to show every mosrite piece is a one of a kind
I should take a picture of my three 70's model's neck profile and post them here
I should take a picture of my three 70's model's neck profile and post them here
Re: 350 & 300 Necks, Volutes & Heels: A Visual Comparison
Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2012 11:15 pm
It would be great to see everyone's profile, and crown the Thinnest Mosrite Neck Award {or the TMNA award as I call it} to the winner.
Re: 350 & 300 Necks, Volutes & Heels: A Visual Comparison
Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2012 6:53 am
Brutus,brutus wrote:It would be great to see everyone's profile, and crown the Thinnest Mosrite Neck Award {or the TMNA award as I call it} to the winner.
I'm not sure about the re-issue, but a REAL '63 neck will win the TMNA Award....hands down.....
Re: 350 & 300 Necks, Volutes & Heels: A Visual Comparison
Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2012 3:37 pm
I think the measuring of Mosrite neck profiles is a worthwhile excercise but needs to quantified. By that I mean that picture judgements alone are going to be inaccurate. If the pictures were taken of the necks with a micrometer clamped across the profile of the neck at the 12th fret, that would be better. I do say "better" and not perfect as we know that all of our individual micrometers would not be uniformly calibrated. But I'm thinking it would be better than a simple photo with little in the way of quantifiable measurements. I don't currently have a good micrometer. I have a bad one with which a photo example will follow. -Marty
Re: 350 & 300 Necks, Volutes & Heels: A Visual Comparison
Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2012 4:33 pm
Here's what I'm talkin' 'bout. This is the profile as measured on my Kurokomo Super Custom '65 at the 12th fret. It comes out to .83". On two other Kurokomos, a Royal '63 and Super Custom '64, the profile measurements came out to .84" for both. I always thought my '89 Mosrite had the most narrow neck profile of them all BUT I was way off. It comes out to .86".
-Marty
-Marty