Guitar Neck Joints Explained - Bolt On, Set Neck & Neck-Thru - Whats The Difference, Pros & Cons?!

[@BeyondVexing]

I have no preference on the neck joint style. For me it’s how the neck feels. Nothing more, nothing less. A very well explained video on neck joints.

[@patrickmcmahon1110]

For me it’s purely aesthetic, bolt ons just bugs me after having a neck through with pinstripes.

[@TheSirpatrick33]

Ive always preferred neck thru basses, but all have their own merits

[@BennieTarrMusic]

Bass sucks.

[@NWTMasterWolf]

Just got an Epiphone Les Paul. BnW It's a set neck as most probably know. I love it. Can't play worth a shit yet but I still love it LOL. You teach me a lot bud. Thanks.

[@xneurianx]

I have literally no preference on neck joints really. I rarely get up high enough for the heel to be an issue and tonally, I've always been able to get where I want to be as long as I've got a decent amp behind me - or a decent OD pedal infront of a not so decent amp. The joys of being a punk guitarist! :D

[@BennieTarrMusic]

Get a good amp

[@xneurianx]

@@BennieTarrMusic I have multiple good amps, but I sometimes borrow amps at shows or rent them at practice rooms and some of those are not so great and my OD pedal helps sweeten that sound up a bit for me. But thank you for your unsolicited and inappropriate advice.

[@B_stu]

2020 FMT Tele... set neck. Only a Tele by shape, but oh what a hybrid!

[@dustyschwartz1576]

I have a Peavy HPEX with a thru neck and got it for $40.00 reason being? Had a cracked neck. I was able to glue the crack and clamp it. Always got a guitar since I can't sell it for much and I like the feel of it compared to most others guitars I have owned.

[@m.e.c.j.5125]

My 2020 LTD Eclipse Custom 1987 Reissue is fantastically neck thru ! "Izzy" 2020 ESP/LTD Eclipse Custom 1987 Reissue: Ebony Fretboard. Tone Vise Keyless Nut Locks. Seymour Duncan A4 Saturday Night Specials. Jim Dunlop 500k ohm Super Pots. Sprague/Orange Drop .015uF capacitor. Switchcraft 3 way toggle. Pure Tone multi contact output jack. Tone Vise Pitch Shifter. FU Tone Brass 42mm Big Block, Inserts, Claw and screws, and HD silent springs. Jim Dunlop 1.0mm Tortex. Ernie Ball 10-46 Regular Slinkys tuned Eb/Drop C#. Schaller S-Locks.

[@yourbore]

"...of course it glues it together, there's glue in there." hahaha. love the video, and neck thrus.

[@stevenielsen3102]

Back in the 60s I had a friend who broke the neck on his Les Paul Special ( almost identical to an SG (c1959? ) ) near the heel, so it has happened. He explained some kind of weird drop and the neck hit something right in a spot to break there without hitting the headstock. Unfortunately his dad did a horrible job gluing it together with *GASP* epoxy!

[@edwinstovall3334]

The neck construction is of paramount importance to the player because the neck-to-body interface will (must!) affect string vibration in many ways. The neck construction therefore does much to create the overall tone of the guitar. And we (hopefully!) all know what it's like when a guitar you're playing has a tone that just DOES something to you. Your playing can go up a notch or two just because your liking of what's going on thrusts you into wanting to hear something you've never thought to play before. If you go for it, you might hit it and achieve a personal best -- or a string of personal bests.

[@alexanderhanksx]

I love learning about guitars from Russel Brand's brother!

[@Shaylok]

If it looks like a duck and sounds like a duck, it must be Russel Brand's little bro.

[@yfcvtiybr]

so I just spent almost 14 minutes just for "a bolt on is a bolt on, a set on is a set on". amazing

[@beberoli]

Excellent video ! Thanks a lot ❤

[@fabieneldridge3414]

I want a single P-90 Les Paul . That thing looks an sounds great.

[@ryanriffs_1349]

So dagan! Did you get gold glory hanging oh so beautifully on the axes 🎸🎸🎸 🎸🎸🎸walls. 🤘👊✊🤘

[@markdakel9253]

To me it’s a matter of application, depends on your style ,but, just be on the safe side just get one of each and you’ll be fine. 🎸🎸🎸

[@TriumphWithoutGlory]

I really like to feel the vibration through the entire guitar when i play my neck through body 7 strings guitar

[@dominicgorbet7640]

I fulfilled my purpose and gave this video its 420th like

[@380stroker]

Neck thru for the best tuning stability.

[@sira.scottascot8865]

There's something about a really lightweight neck thru. Set necks too. Like an old SG or Special. Like lightning rods.

[@colboysigmax]

BC Rich Mockingbird Shredzilla with thru-neck, Fishmann pickups and an Evertune bridge, best rock guitar I ever played, and I've played and own a few!

[@garyjones783]

I have the Prophecy Shredzila and you are so true!!!! I’ve got a Schecter Apocolyps with the sustainiac in Purple Reain on order. It has a set neck.

[@Goldsteinphoto]

As a woodworker it seems to me that a neck thru design would be the easiest and cheapest way to make a guitar. There is no issue of aligning and attaching the neck. And laminating various pieces would be strong and minimize warping. Small strips of wood are economical compared to large ones.

[@granite_planet]

Unfortunately laminated wood doesn't vibrate and resonate in a nice way for musical instruments. You can find guitars with laminated parts (especially tops) but most of them sound quite dull.

[@Goldsteinphoto]

@@granite_planet I'm thinking of electric guitars. I can't see how resonance from the wood could matter much since the pickups simply produce electric signals generated by magnetism from string movement. E.g. unless you are not plugged in, the resonance won't come through the amp. If it matters in any significant way, it has not been demonstrated in any obvious accepted way.

[@granite_planet]

@@Goldsteinphoto You're right, there seems to be very little (as in zero) evidence that wood matters despite the ubiquity of the belief that it does. Earlier I thought the strings and wood would create an interactive system that dampens some frequencies more than others, but it seems that the wood resonates so little that it simply doesn't affect the strings in a noticeable way.

[@Goldsteinphoto]

@@granite_planet Yes. And of course on an acoustic, the wood and structure determines the sound quality.

[@JareddarArt]

Another great vid Dagan. I have one set neck guitar from Thomann. The L1000 from Harley Benton. Honestly, I prefer my bolt ons.

[@MasterJamesX]

I love set necks but never had problems playing on bolt ons.

[@herculesbrofister265]

of course not, it's marketing hype. many of guitars most famous players used bolt-ons. from hendrix to clapton to malmsteen. also have you considered the fact Dimebag darrel used solid state amps his entire Pantera career.

[@MasterJamesX]

@@herculesbrofister265 for real I've been saving up for a tube amp but love dimebag

[@minstrel9806]

@@herculesbrofister265 it's not marketing hype, it's logic. A neck thru has better upper fret access than a set neck, and a set neck has better upper fret access than a bolt-on. Just like a V shaped guitar has better upper fret access over a single cut guitar. That said, none of the neck joint types will hinder your ability to play efficiently. If it was marketing hype companies would only be using neck thru for all mid to high tier guitars, yet Fender most pricey guitars have bolt on necks, so do some ESP guitars (mostly Snapper and SN series), and high tier Ibanez guitars too. Rather than calling it marketing hype i would call it misconception. Many people believe that a bolt-on neck affects sustain and tone in a bad way (which has been proven wrong many times). By the way Dimebag didn't use solid state amps his entire career, it actually used them for some time because there weren't many high gain tube amps around, but he eventually switched to tube amps once the Krank was released.

[@leviathan_is_me]

I know what I WANT to like, what I WANT to be my jam, but I also know what WORKS for me..and they are unfortunately not the same thing. For some reason a good satin, unfinished, bolt-on neck just works for me. I do LOVE a great neck thru and set in but bolt-ons just feel right.

[@zakkcovers18]

Bolt on 👌

[@Joecuzzi]

Fender FMT are set necks and HH

[@immutablecantrip]

What is the riff at the very beginning? I wanna say it's Slash but I can't place it and it's bugging me

[@mrmackee123]

Now I understand 👍🎸

[@edwinstovall3334]

A small update: Late last year, I scored my first neck-through guitar. The price was VERY low, as the guitar arrived at my door after a somewhat-less-than-$200 expenditure. Now I've at least one of all the major neck joints. Oh, and in case you didn't notice, I don't get lazy with the term "neck-through!"😎

[@FeintMotion]

Lookit that n e c c

[@MrChris5254]

Harley benton Amerok.Will kick butts .A thro neck from about £450. Check it out.

[@SwapnenduKar]

Bolt-on😊

[@commiehunter733]

I prefer neck thru guitars, like My kiesel (Carvin) Scb 2015.... Unless I'm playing a stratocaster, then I like bolt on necks

[@russellzauner]

Jared needs to tell Epi that he wants an all maple one next time, maple body, maple neck - and then go for walnut body/neck for the one after if they'll let him. :-)

[@mikejeanette9072]

Just to touch on what you weren't here to talk about. Wood has nothing to do with the sound of a solid body electric in my opinion. Maybe on a semi hollow it might but probably not even then. It's your string gage and your pick ups wiring and pots. Hand any guitar player any guitar of any wood with his preferred pickups in it and it'll sound like him

[@danielkelley6711]

it's not your opinion. it's proven fact.

[@moonbeam_base]

Love a neck-through. My last guitar was a USA Soloist, but I'm not spending that on a guitar again. Just ordered a $300 bolt on, and might upgrade pickups at some point. The setup is what matters. This guitar will do what I need it to do.

[@aarongrimes6490]

There's so many Asian soloists that are better than the USA ones for a fraction of the price

[@wilhelmtheconquerer6214]

To me neck-through and bolt-on construction is the only ways to go. Neck-through pros: Maximum amount of resonance Better playability due to a lack of heel joint Neck-through cons: Expensive Hard to repair if the neck breaks Bolt-on pros: Cheap Easy to repair Perfect for modders Bolt-on cons: Generally most uncomfortable Least resonance Set neck, in my opinion, is this weird old-school approach to guitar building that have just stuck around due to tradition. It is the worst at anything, but it isn't the best at anything either

[@misterroberts344]

Actually its a myth that bolt ons have less sustain. Science says they actually have the most. People just infer they're cheap, so they must not be as good.

[@wilhelmtheconquerer6214]

@@misterroberts344 yeah, you're right! I mixed up sustain and resonance

[@BennieTarrMusic]

If you think it's hard to play up high on a strat, you just need to practice more.

[@BennieTarrMusic]

@@wilhelmtheconquerer6214 Resonance comes from the speakers.

[@biffabacon1203]

Dove tail arl the way bonny lad...beer and tabs for everyone.

[@0321ReconMan]

The biggest thing for me is when traveling on airplanes the bolt on the neck is better. I can just take the guitar apart and put it in my carryon. Set neck I have to check it and there is a risk of damage or getting lost at baggage claim....that's why my travel guitar has always been a strat.

[@Spivonious]

Electric guitars operate through picking up string vibrations with a magnetic field. "Tonewoods" make absolutely no difference in the sound through the amp as long as the pickups are the same and at the same distance from the bridge and from the strings.

[@reineh3477]

Thank you. I wish more people knew this.

[@kickfighting1015]

If I tap on the body with my knuckles, I hear a knock from my amp. If I talk into the pickup I hear it in the amp. Different woods vibrate differently. Different body styles sound different. It mostly is the pickups and amp. But if you have enough time to hear it, woods make a difference. A very little difference

[@eternalmonsoon8103]

Bought a Vintage 72 Tele from you today. Listen to US Maple :D

[@SavitTheGoalie]

Blot on necks creak to much for my tastes set necks and neck thru are my favorites I love how they don’t creak and I can have long lasting chords

[@JohnvanCapel]

A good bolt-on neck won't creak or move at all. That's only a thing if they did a bad job putting it on there.

[@VinSpacker]

I like you sir

[@XanderThompson-sr1wf]

second

[@manson9083]

What about my EC1000 with Set-thru? Hmm says the crow.

[@matchesburn]

To my failing and continuously hearing damaged ears (believe it or not, not from loud music but due to health issues and firearms) and peasant-level hearing... A decent guitar and a good guitarist just sound the same regardless of the neck joint method. I guarantee you I wouldn't be able to tell the difference through audio quality.

[@primedirective00]

This guy stands still like Captain Jack Sparrow runs lol

[@rushshukla4636]

What about a one piece where the whole guitar is carved out of one piece of wood. No glue or bolts. Just 100% sculpted wood. No one's done that yet.

[@TheHumesMusic]

My understanding is: Bolt-on has the brightest tone and longest sustain Neck-thru has the dullest tone and shortest sustain Set neck is somewhere in the middle The difference is caused by the resonant qualities given to the instrument by the neck joint. All things being equal, the neck-thru resonates the fundamental the best, and sounds the best acoustically. But plugged-in the tone is darker because the overtones are less present due to the stronger fundamental, and sustains less because more of the energy from the strings goes into the body. Ironically it is the somewhat flawed design (in terms of acoustic resonance) of the bolt-on which gives Fender-style guitars their 'brighter' tone. Less fundamental = more overtones present in the plugged-in tone.

[@fondoman3884]

.. I will never see guitars in the same way again .. the necks are very, if not the most, important part of guitars .. anything very wrong there in a guitar, the guitar is no more

[@shanewalton8888]

Tone wood is a myth

[@shanewalton8888]

@Aquatic Mullet The tone of your electric guitar is 95% derived from the pickups and amp. The remaining 5% can be compensated for by adjusting your amp settings. As for sustain, that depends more on the guitar weight than the type guitar. Again, the sustain difference between, say, a Gibson LP and an Ibanez S series is so minimal that the average listener cannot detect in a mix.

[@craigghelfi3796]

@@shanewalton8888 Tthanks Fatt...I’m certainly no expert but you make more sense than most.

[@80s_kid]

@@shanewalton8888 Yes, the sustain/resonance difference is exists. (neckthru vs bolt on) This doesn't mean that one is better or worse than the other. The tonewood part is more of a "myth" compared to this.

[@Rahel336]

I agree dude, tonewood is a myth and neck thru is better than bolt on is also a myth. In live concert, you only need good guitar with good pick up, decent amp, and your pedal effect

[@herculesbrofister265]

@@Rahel336 and talent. i'm sure we've all seen MAB on a shitty, starter level Dean and TheDoo rocking a Hello Kitty guitar.

[@heavey123456]

Its a lot of Bul Shit talking here pick up makes the sound,Tone wood Haha LMAO

[@clovergrass9439]

This guy Dagan did a cool video, you sound like a loser...go do your own video.

[@heavey123456]

@Aquatic Mullet they make guitars of Concrete sound exact the same as a guitar made of Wood please do your Homework Mouth,pick up makes the Sound and the Player

[@TeeDub96]

@@heavey123456 I like how the guy in the video says he isn't going to get into the tone wood thing then continues to talk about every other sentence😂 and I don't believe the wood does anything but help sustain.

[@danielkelley6711]

yep it's bogus

[@9hk38f]

Sorry acoustic folk? They are NPC's you need not address them.

[@ChrisTopherBunnell]

My $1700 neck-thru BC Rich Ironbird cracked when falling off the stand. Skinny headstock screwed me.