For the real guitar-geeks only!!

Jussi Huhtakangas · Post by **Jussi Huhtakangas** » 21 Mar 2005 12:17 am

Hail Joe Maphis!!! :
http://www.bobsyouruncle.net/TNM_Guitars/tnmpage.htm

Bart Maloney · Post by **Bart Maloney** » 21 Mar 2005 9:10 am

That is too cool!

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Michael Holland · Post by **Michael Holland** » 21 Mar 2005 10:55 am

Last month's Vintage Guitar magazine cover story was on Semie Moseley and his multi-neck guitars. Great article and pictures.

Chris Schlotzhauer · Post by **Chris Schlotzhauer** » 21 Mar 2005 11:42 am

What was the pupose of slanting the neck pickup? Mosrite used to do that.

Jussi Huhtakangas · Post by **Jussi Huhtakangas** » 23 Mar 2005 3:40 am

Dunno for sure, I guess that was just Semie's idea of a getting a good tone on his guitars.
I can't but admire Deke's enthusiasm and efforts and how much things he gets done.

Alvin Blaine · Post by **Alvin Blaine** » 24 Mar 2005 1:19 am

<SMALL>What was the pupose of slanting the neck pickup? Mosrite used to do that.</SMALL>

So did Fender and a few others.

The Mosrite's used the same pickups for the long scale neck and the short scale neck. The string spacing on the short scale is closer, so to get the pickups pole pieces under the string you have to slant the pickup at an angle. The angle direction is more than likely the same reason as on Fender guitars.

Fender slants their bridge pickups so that the low strings have fuller tone and the high string are brighter. So the angle is with the pole pieces for the low strings closer to the neck(for a deeper tone) and the pole pieces for the high strings are closer to the bridge(for a brighter tone).

If anyone is in Vegas this weekend you could have a chance to see a few of these incredible guitars. At Viva Las Vegas, this year, "The Dave & Deke Combo" and "The Collins Kids" will be in town. So I'm sure that between Deke and Larry there will be a few necks on stage.
They are playing their sets Saturday night(I think 11 PM and 12:30 AM). I'm going to try and make it to those two shows. I'm playing with a band later that night(3AM-4AM) on another stage.