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Post by MARCO » Tue Oct 31, 2006 10:45 am

si' bueno....pick up a wayne guitar and feel the neck and thats it......
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Post by Tone Slinger » Tue Oct 31, 2006 2:24 pm

Oh his necks (EVH Charvel and Wolfgang) are still 25 1/2 strat scale length. Yeah his origional neck was definatly wider than his current 1 5/8 nut width. Upon looking at several picture's of his origional strat I can definatly see that it (The body that is) seems to look just a wee bit bigger than say fender reissue's or Warmoth part's. Some strat bodies in the 70's to me seem alittle "Larger" as well. I do not dought that Wayne's stuff is off the hook. He probably still own's alot of that origional wood working equipment. I think Fender and Warmoth are trying to stick to exact 50's body dimension's.

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Post by Star*Guitar » Tue Oct 31, 2006 4:05 pm

I had a Wayne Legend I wish I never sold...it had a finish flaw...Man that baby played like a dream. That had a 1 11/16th neck and was absolutely the best neck I ever play on...Eddie had it right in the old days....

You know..Eddie has real big hand for a little guy..or any guy for that matter. I am surprised he doesn't want the necks wider.
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Post by Tone Slinger » Wed Nov 01, 2006 9:32 pm

With the exception of the origional neck, which to me was probably 1 11/16 or better Eddie has alway's seemed to prefer what seems to be 1 5/8 lookin' necks. Between 79' to around 82 or 83 or so the neck on his #1 ( 2 mainly in that time period by lookin' at picture's) seems to be 1 5/8. The Kramer necks may have been 1 11/16, but I think my '87 Baretta was 1 5/8's ? Hey, just pick-up a reissue style strat if you don't own one, or better yet an origional and play it. Fender got it right to begin with to me no matter your hand size. All's I would change is the fret board radius. For a straight radius I like a '12 or so but the 10 to 16 radius on the EVH Charvel neck is top's to me. Let's you dig in and cop some funk in the first octave, as well as tap and legato with ease in the higher register's, all without feelin' the neck is any different in it's radius, all though it is.

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Post by jbat667 » Sun Nov 05, 2006 5:16 pm

I always thought he used 1 3/4" nut width necks back in the day. I know from talking to people like George Lynch and Warren DeMartini that size was really popular among the LA guys in the day....I built my first VH-type strat with a Charvel neck that had that nut width back in the mid 80s, and now I can't use anything else!! :lol: Warmoth makes nice ones, I have three of theirs, but I want to try a Musikraft neck...they make a supposedly dead-on copy of the old Charvel...anybody tried 'em? :?:

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Post by Tone Slinger » Wed Nov 08, 2006 9:23 am

I haven't tried those yet. I think you may be right about the 1 3/4 nut width on the charvel's back then. Hell I cant really tell 100% by looking at pictures anyway. The first 22 fret neck that ED had on #1 did look rather thin up top. Maybe, maybe not. It didnt look like a Charvel though. I can see by your insignia that we have similar taste in guitars. No pick-guard, Floyd Rose's and maple necks. Bridge Humbucker like Ed, Lynch,DeMartini and a neck single coil ala Hendrix,Roth,Malmsteen. A neck single coil really gives a strat another dimension of sound.

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