How to determine Headstock & Neck Break Angles for your guitar build the easy way. - Tutorial.
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- Опубликовано: 20 июн 2021
- Not sure on how to figure out the break angles for your Guitar Neck and Headstock?
In this video I show you my very easy method on how I determine the Neck break angle & Headstock angle for my guitars.
All you need to do to figure out the break angles on your guitar builds is to make a full size drawing of your design and apply just a few easy techniques to get the perfect break angles every time.
Video on making the neck pocket and setting the neck angle:
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Brother, don't apologise for your English. There's two reasons why I can't do what you do. I can't make a guitar like you can and I can't explain the process in a different language like you can. In the RUclips luthier community, you're up there, you're a boss. My next guitar is a copy of your last one. Your skills are spreading.
Daniel, your technical explanations in English are perfectly fine. I know that sometimes, the exact word you wish to convey may be difficult, but you do an excellent job of explaining your processes.
I learn something new every time I watch your videos. And don't feel bad about your English. I've been speaking it for almost 48 years and still mess up, lol.
For me, this was the best headstock/neck/bridge setup video I've seen. You did an awesome job explaining it. Also, your English is always very good in all of your videos, I wouldn't sweat it.
makes the process much easier to understand, thanks for sharing!
Thank you Daniel for answering my question from the previous episode… I think I’m ready to give it a go on my bridge, thanks for the tips man…
The Best video about this topic, by far! Greatings from Chile
It's so nice of you to share all these tips. It will save me a lot of time and try and error. Thank you so much.
Well done! One of the best methods I’ve seen to determine neck to body angel.
Huge help! Thanks very much.
Love your videos. Great work. Cheers.
Brilliant video, full of useful information, thanks so much for posting it.
Incidentally, no need to apologise for your English, it is excellent!, take care.
Hi Daniel! Dank je wel voor de tijd die je neemt om je kennis te delen!! Precies wat ik nodig heb om te beginnen met mijn tekening. Your English is outstanding!!
Incredibly helpful info, thanks!
This completely reset my approach to building my guitar. An epiphany, if you will. Thank you, Daniel. You are appreciated!
Wow! That was very helpful Daniel! Thanks a lot for sharing this video with us. Cheers! New subscriber here
Hi Guitar Kit World,
Thank you very much and welcome to the channel.
@@UnquendorGuitars Thank you for the warm welcome
Your English is great! I love watching your builds! \m/
Thanks for the useful video. Your English is fantastic, by the way. I'm off to find your "sanding/planing the angle" video now.
This is an incredible video! Thank you for so clearly explaining a concept I couldn't figure out
Hi Chapman Swaine,
Thank you very much.
It's nice to learn you're getting some useful information from this video.
Bravo! Such an excellent presentation. Thank you for a teaching job well-done.
Hi Jack's Quick Licks,
Thank you for the compliments.
Great video !! Very useful information !! I'm getting ready to start a build with a Floyd Rose trem . I was wondering if I needed to have a neck angle for this project . I've never built a guitar with a Floyd Rose before so this will definitely be a learning experience !!
What a good practical explanation of this process, Thanks and don't worry about your English it is fine,
Just fantastic. I've been enjoying your videos since finding them a few weeks ago. I'm planning to make a guitar with my daughter for her to use and it will be strongly influenced by your videos and instructions. I appreciate the detail. Keep up the great work 😎
Hi Nathan,
Thank you very much.
What a nice idea to be building a guitar together with your daughter.
I wish you both a lot of fun together and good luck with the build.
This video is helping me finish setting up a frankenstien guitar I recently put together. It seems I didn't have the neck angle in relation to the bridge quite right. I'm still adjusting the action as we speak but I can already see consistency that wasn't there before. Thank you so much, I think this just might do it!
Hi Reprisal Within,
Guitar building is all about the relations between all the parts. Once you've figured them out it get's a lot easier.
I was surprised you use a CAD software, because i also use AutoCAD at work. When i watch your full build of Morinessa I was inspired to make a guitar and its already finished. It took me 5 months using only simple hand tools work (5-6h/day).
Can you do a vid on how to make perfect matching cavity covers and lids. I watched one of your videos that briefly showed but ,yea more in depth would be great 👍
Great video if you can use autocad. I'll go buy some big sheets of paper. Keep up the good work.
Seems like if you pivot the headstock at the nut that the end point will move away from the vertical line you marked from above when the headstock was straight because the far end of the headstock is now moving on a circular path. I realize that this is completely adjustable though. Great info. Wish I could do Autocad. 😊
Another great highly detailed video, thanks! I'm curious did you have any problems setting the minimum saddle height using the hipshot fixed bridges? I find using the included mounting screws which have a small dome head result in pushing the saddles up slightly. Luckily in my case I needed to raise the saddles slightly for the action I prefer, but something I didn't expect from a product like hipshot and something which may catch people out.
Hi Sean,
Yes indeed. The provided dome screws for the Hipshot bridge can be a problem and I wanted to mention this in one of my building videos but it didn't make the cut.
This is also a reason why I design my guitars for a string height of 10mm.
If you run into troubles with the dome head mounting screws I would replace them with flat head screws instead.
@@UnquendorGuitars Thanks for the reply. It's comforting for me to hear you faced the same. I was wondering at first if I had received the wrong screws after I researched a bit online and found no one else seeming to have the same problem. I guess hipshot assume that the saddles will always be raised at least slightly. Still, I'm happy I now know this to avoid any miss calculations on future guitars.
Great video Daniel!
What are the programs you are using to design the guitars? Thank you!
Hi El Jarocho,
I primarily use AutoCAD and sometimes Solidworks or Fusion 360 if I need to verify something in 3D.
For example if a hole can be drilled at a certain angle.
@@UnquendorGuitars
Thank you! I appreciate your time!
Do you have a source for the hipshot products inside the EU? I have difficulties to find a good source in Germany
Hi M. Heck,
You can try guitarsupplies.nl, an All Parts dealer or direct order from Hipshot.
I get my parts from a local supplier that doesn't sell internationally.
I recently searched for one and found it here: www.voxhumanawebstore.nl/en/hipshot-41060c-fixed-hardtail-bridge-chrome.html
There are many ways to get to Rome.
which we in the US say as all roads lead to Rome
but in the context in which you used it, we say, "there's more than one way to skin a cat."
3.44 However, you provide no indication of what sort of angle is needed at this point for the string ... so this neck angle now just represents the 'random line' that you first drew ... !?! What criteria do you advise for the correct angle for the string at the nut for it to actually now dictate the actual Neck Angle required ???
I fear that you missed out a critical part of the explanation here ...
Grateful for the missing information, please ... which will also need to take into account string tension, hence scale length amongst other matters ...
Hi Stephen.
I'm afraid you might have missed a small part of the video.
I talk about and explain the headstock break angle from 2:33 where I mention the break angle usually is anything in between 10º and 15º and the purpose of the break angle is to create additional string tension at the nut to keep the strings in the nut slots when playing the guitar.
After which I indeed draw in a line at a random angle to show that any break angle will do as long as your strings run at a downwards angle towards the tuners.
@@UnquendorGuitars So, you are effectively saying any angle between 10 to 15 degrees ... ?
(No, I didn't miss that part of the video ... there was just no 'calculation' of the necessary angle to determine the correct string tension other than the approximate angle range ... )