Long vs. short tenon

[brundaddy]

How do you determine whether you LP's neck joint tenon is long or short?

[Andre S]

How do you determine whether you LP's neck joint tenon is long or short?

 

a long tennon would be seen in the neck pickup cavity' date=' like so:

 

http://www.abalonevintage.com/guitar_gibson_1959_les_paul_standard_9_0821_dust_2.jpg

 

You can see where it ends, that space there.

 

A short neck tennon would not be seen in the neck pickup cavity, so the cavity would have no space and the wood should be uniform.

 

Failing that....a band saw could help like:

 

[img']http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg225/Gibson_Tim/tenonslpfjpeg.jpg[/img]

 

 

If you mean in terms of which years have what then...... [biggrin]

 

No idea.

[T Bone]

Some insight on which guitars have which tenons can be found in this article on another Forum (hope it's okay to link another Forum's thread here, that is how I found this one).

[Tim Plains]

Obviously, remove your neck pickup and look in the hole.

[brundaddy]

Yea, just wanted to know how long we consider a "long tenon" to be in a Gibson.

[Andre S]

Yea' date=' just wanted to know how long we consider a "long tenon" to be in a Gibson.[/quote']

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://deeringamps.com/lpcustom/images/gibson_long_neck_tenon.jpg&imgrefurl=http://deeringamps.com/lpcustom/long_neck_tenon.htm&usg=__b-lp2JMmwqNv4YHxoAm1nIjgTYk=&h=385&w=550&sz=67&hl=en&start=5&itbs=1&tbnid=_TQJAIGAn17r6M:&tbnh=93&tbnw=133&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dgibson%2Blong%2Bneck%2Btenon%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26gbv%3D2%26tbs%3Disch:1

 

the longer one.

[vincentw]

Right. And you'll see what looks like a smile (thin gap) in the front pickup cavity.