Music – Instruments – Stringed
Patent
1977-07-20
1980-01-22
Gonzales, John
Music
Instruments
Stringed
G10D 300
Patent
active
041844041
ABSTRACT:
A neck for a stringed instrument formed of a plywood comprising a lamination of a plurality of sheets of bamboo. A length of bamboo greater than the length of the neck to be produced and having a proper diameter is radially stiffed into equal sectors each having an arcuate section. Both the external and internal surfaces of the sectors are sliced tangentially and the opposite lateral edges of the sectors cut in a direction perpendicular to the tangential direction, thus providing a plurality of sheets of the required length which are rectangular in cross section. Using any known wood lamination technique, the sheets are laminated into a plywood. In a practical embodiment, the plywood is in the form of a straight square timber, the opposite ends of which are cut off, leaving the intermediate portion for use as a neck body. The end portions are used as a peg head and a mounting limb, which are adhesively bonded with the corresponding positions of the neck body portion in given orientations before cutting the plywood into the neck form. Preferably, the major surface of the laminar sheets is aligned in parallel relationship with the surface of the neck body on which a finger board is mounted, or in a direction perpendicular to the last mentioned surface.
REFERENCES:
patent: 1960380 (1934-05-01), Jordan
patent: 3805663 (1974-04-01), Okugawa
Adams Bruce L.
Burns Robert E.
Gonzales John
Lobato Emmanuel J.
Schreyer S. D.
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