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GUITAR NECK
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(76) Inventor:
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Primary Examiner * Kimberly Lockett
(74) Attorney, Agent, or Firm * Husch Blackwell LLP
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ABSTRACT
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GUITAR NECK
stringed instruments.
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vibrates air inside the sound chamber, and produces the sound
that is projected from the sound hole. In electric guitars, the
body is usually solid, and can be Wood or molded plastic.
Pickups 24, and control knobs 28 can also differentiate the
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slightly tacky, or sticky, and the hand and ?ngers Will slide
less smoothly and With more effort. If a satin ?nish, is used,
then a slicker and easier glide of the hand on the neck is
possible.
of the guitar.
The ?nish of that side of the neck opposite the frets also is
considered important to the subject invention as a method of
forming high and loW spots, Where the high spots comprise
the contact area for the hand. In this manner the contact
surface area of the neck is reduced in a uniform manner. Such
thus a sloWer glide of the hand on the neck. FIG. 10 shoWs the
siZe of the pattern, the surface area available for contact With
the hand can be increased or decreased, thereby controlling
the glide of the hand in its movement up and doWn the neck.
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Which the hand plays, i.e., from the head to the heel.
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head of the guitar to a body of the guitar, said high spots and
loW spots forming a pattern.
2. The guitar neck of claim 1, Wherein the removal of the
both contribute the loW spots, While the material that has not
been cut is the high spot. This is shoWn in FIG. 14.
lines then become the loW spots. This is best shoWn in FIGS.
high spots and the loW spots are ridges and depressions
high spots and the loW spots are ridges and depressions
formed by embossing or impressing.
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edges.
While the reduction of surface area contributes to the
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