Which Gibson SG Has The Widest Neck???

It's like comparing apples and turnips. They are two completely different animals. Up until '66 they used a box joint, and the neck was joined to the body at the 22nd fret. Java and I contributed a lot of photos to a neck joint thread over at ETSG before Photobucket decided to keep everyone's photos private unless you paid them.

Here you can see how the box joint is made. It is the full width of the fingerboard. Unlike a mortise and tenon, where the tenon is narrower and gives more surfaces to glue. I think that my box joint was a little longer than Gibson's, as I was trying to get as I was trying to get as much glue in there as I could.



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This heel is almost identical to my '61 Reissue. You can see that there is not a whole lot of body structure where the neck is fitted into the body as a result of a box joint.
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This is the heel of my '62.

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Then, you'll see how the mortise is extended so that the neck could be joined at the 19th fret. I read that this would help prevent so many neck resets. I forget where. But, that was a complaint from dealers, where players complained about how difficult it was to play with the long skinny neck. This was also when they went with the narrow nut, and rounder neck profile.

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I don't have a photo of the cavity to show that the tenon is much narrower than the fingerboard on the SG. But it is similar to my Flying V, just not as long. It is quite a short tenon.


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Robert Herndon said:
My 2021 is a 1.705" (binding to binding) wide beast of a neck!!!!

The reason I got it was my les paul was my music chum at the local Guitar Sinner called and said, "Hey, Bro, we got a Gibson les paul nobody can play cuz the neck is too big..."
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Hey Robert, is it really 1.705 not 1.75? I get 1.6875 for 1 11/16, and 1.75 for 1 3/4. I suppose 1.705 somewhere in the middle is possible, it just seems like an unusual figure.

Even 1 23/32 is larger than 1 11/16 by a 32nd, and slightly larger than 1.705 at 1.71875.
 
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chilipeppermaniac said:
Hey Robert, is it really 1.705 not 1.75? I get 1.6875 for 1 11/16, and 1.75 for 1 3/4. I suppose 1.705 somewhere in the middle is possible, it just seems like an unusual figure.

Even 1 23/32 is larger than 1 11/16 by a 32nd, and slightly larger than 1.705 at 1.71875.
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I need to pinch it again with calipers, but it's around 1.700"
 
both my SGs are 24 frets -- SG1 "All American" and SGJ (with @Hackmaster mods)
SG's now with bigsby.jpg

(the 2 on the left) the EBO"P" is ...well FRETLESS .........and the one on the right (look familiar @Robert Herndon ?) is long gone
Robert tried to fix it
I tried
@CabanaBoy tried
none of us could get a good USEABLE tone from it
sad because if it had "worked" .... I mean that wall......... WHAT MORE DO YOU NEED?!?!?
 
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