Music – Instruments – Stringed
Patent
1996-06-06
1999-09-07
Shoop, Jr., William M.
Music
Instruments
Stringed
84293, 84267, G10D 300
Patent
active
059490055
ABSTRACT:
A collapsible guitar kit designed to modify existing guitars so that guitar necks can be separated from guitar bodies for compact storage and for convenient interchanging of varying guitar necks with varying guitar bodies. The invention includes a neck plate, a body plate and a backing plate. The neck plate is provided to attach to a guitar neck. The body plate is provided to attach to a guitar body, and a backing plate is provided to attach to the underside of a guitar body. The neck plate and body plate provide a precision fit to each other by means of tooling points, while the backing plate provides consistent realignment and securing of both neck and body plates by means of a single bolt. The entire assembly is economical to manufacture and provides users the ability to modify any existing guitar to become collapsible for compact storage or for interchanging of various guitar necks with various guitar bodies.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4638708 (1987-01-01), Kamal
patent: 5353672 (1994-10-01), Stewart
Hseih Shih-yung
O'Banion John P.
Shoop Jr. William M.
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