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2016 Neck Heel Joints vs 1964


oceantracks

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I tried an SG Standard T yesterday and it was great.

 

Then the salesman showed me the more expensive HP version and pointed out the smoother neck joint where it meets the body.

 

I could care less really, but I got to wondering, my first serious guitar when I was a kid was a 1964 SG Standard (vibrola)......which of the 2016 neck joints would more closely resemble what a vintage one had?

 

Thanks much

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As I haven't yet had the chance to try a "T" series or "HP" side by side, I wonder

about neck joint stability, with less wood, on the HP version. The neck joint,

has always been a bit of a weak link, in the SG's. That was addressed in various

ways, over the last 55 years, since they were introduced, in 1961. Mostly, by adding

a meatier, or longer neck joint So, does the HP version have a "longer" neck tenon,

sunk into the body, to (possibly?) compensate, for less wood at the heel, for more

strength and sustain? I noticed, (right away...you know me) that the nicer

(wider/deeper) beveling and horn tapering, is Missing, on the "Traditional"

version, but IS there, on the HP version, with the slimmer heal joint, as well.

Seems like (to me) that the "T" series, being touted as "Traditional" should have

the more pronounced bevels, and the horn tapering, as well. But, I'll never under

stand Gibson's logic, I guess?

 

CB

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