You design your own screws Gary! ...Any pics?
Ok, this is off-topic. ...I have an acoustic 6-string Norman guitar (Manic model) for the studio (maple; real light and very fragile). ...Among others (acoustic 12-string, electric, and classical.)
The guitar's neck is adjustable by one screw (allen key) on the inside at the base of the neck.
So you can straighten the neck when the wood is working; too hot or too cold. ...Demands precision and experience.
And also the neck is fully removable (two screws behind the caisson).
I know few luthiers, and inside my guitar is the blood of one (a very good one, who lives north of Vernon, in the Okanagan Valley, of British Columbia, deep in one of the mountain's forests), after he cut himself in repairing my guitar with a wood patch inside. ....His blood is there for life (DNA). ...Too long of a story; for another time in a dedicated Musical Instruments' thread. :b
The removable neck uses two metal screws, which appear to have chrome plated (colored only) heads.
And the adjustable neck uses what I believe to be a tungsten (steel) screw (black anodized), but I'm not certain hundred percent.
- Screws are a good subject in audio, and music. :b
That one screw on the inside of the base of the neck, in all likelihood, adjust the "relief" of the neck. A term that refers to a slight concave curve that the truss rod puts in the neck between the head (the nut, actually) end and the point at which the neck joins the body. It gives the strings room to vibrate without buzzing against the frets. Guidelines for how to adjust relief can be found all over the net.
And now we're WAY off topic...
Tim
Yes, that is exactly it Tim. ...It's a rod to straighten your neck so that the strings don't buzz of hitting the frets too prematurely due to a curved neck. ...Ebony templates, and all that 'coquillage' repair points. ... *The curve could be convex or concave.
Still though, that rod acts like a giant tuning screw. And! ...Perhaps it also vibrates inside the neck.
It is easy to strip the heads of brass screws because it is such a soft metal. So unless they have real value, you don't want to use them in manufacturing.And! ...Why is that that 99.99%+ of all speakers don't use brass screws?
It is easy to strip the heads of brass screws because it is such a soft metal. So unless they have real value, you don't want to use them in manufacturing.
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