WO2017003361A1

WO2017003361A1 - Guitar neck

Info

Publication number: WO2017003361A1
Application number: PCT/SE2016/050660
Authority: WO
Inventors: Anders Thidell
Original assignee: Anders Thidell
Priority date: 2015-06-29
Filing date: 2016-06-29
Publication date: 2017-01-05
Also published as: SE1550902A1; SE539116C2

Abstract

A guitar neck (1) with an essentially plane surface (2) on the side of the guitar neck on which it is intended that the guitar strings be located, and an opposite bowed surface (3), where the guitar neck runs from a neck heel (4) nearest to the body of the guitar to a head (5) at which the guitar strings are attached in a manner that allows adjustment. The invention is characterised in that the bowed surface (3) of the guitar neck is provided with grooves (6) that run along the longitudinal direction of the guitar neck between the neck heel (4) and the said head (5).

Description

GUITAR NECK

The present invention relates to a guitar neck. Guitar necks have a relatively plane side at which the guitar strings are present and an opposite side that is bowed.

Guitar necks are normally treated with a surface layer of varnish or equivalent. The varnish may be glossy or matt.

One problem is that guitarists with hand sweat experience an unevenness in resistance when moving the hand along the guitar neck while playing. For this reason, different guitarists prefer different surface layers that give different magnitudes of friction between the hand and the guitar neck. It occurs that the friction becomes so high that a hand with hand sweat tends to become stuck when the hand is displaced along the guitar neck.

The present invention reduces or eliminates the said problems with hand sweat when playing the guitar. In the case in which moisture is deposited onto the guitar neck for various reasons, the said problems are reduced in the same way.

The present invention thus relates to a guitar neck with an essentially plane surface on the side of the guitar neck on which it is intended that the guitar strings be located and an opposite bowed surface, where the guitar neck runs from a neck heel nearest to the body of the guitar to a head at which the guitar strings are attached in a manner that allows adjustment, and is characterised in that the bowed side of the guitar neck is provided with grooves that run along the longitudinal direction of the guitar neck between the neck heel and the said head.

The invention will be described in more detail below, partly in association with embodiments of the invention shown in the attached drawings, where:

- Figure 1 shows a guitar neck according to the invention in a perspective view from below, - Figure 2 shows a cross-section across the line A-A in Figure 1 with the lower surface of the guitar neck directed downwards in the drawing,

- Figure 3 shows a first alternative design of the grooves of the guitar neck,

- Figure 4 shows a second alternative design of the grooves of the guitar neck.

Figure 1 shows a guitar neck 1 according to the invention.

The guitar neck 1 has an essentially plane surface 2 on the side of the guitar neck at which it is intended that the guitar strings be located, see Figure 2. The guitar neck has an opposite bowed surface 3. The guitar neck 1 runs from a neck heel 4 nearest to the body of the guitar to a head 5 at which the guitar strings are attached in a manner that allows adjustment.

According to the invention, the bowed side 3 of the guitar neck 1 is provided with grooves 6 that run along the longitudinal direction of the guitar neck between the neck heel 4 and the said head 5. The grooves 6 may be essentially rectangular in cross-section, as is shown in Figure 2.

According to one preferred embodiment, grooves 6 are not present above the section of guitar neck 1 at which a support rod is present. The support rod 7 is shown in Figure 2 by dashed lines.

As has been mentioned above, the grooves 6 have, according to one preferred embodiment, a rectangular cross-sectional profile.

According to an alternative design, the grooves 6 have a cross-sectional profile that becomes wider at the bottom, as is illustrated in Figure 3, which shows a part of the bowed surface 3.

According to a further alternative design, the grooves 6 have a cross-sectional profile that becomes narrower at the bottom, as is illustrated in Figure 4. Other cross-sectional profiles of the grooves may be appropriate. According to one preferred embodiment, the width of the grooves 6 together with a space between two neighbouring grooves 6 is 1-5 millimetres. The width of the grooves 6 may be, for example, 3 millimetres and the distance between two neighbouring grooves 6 may be 2 millimetres. The bowed surface 3 is in this case reduced by a half.

According to a further preferred embodiment, the grooves 6 have a depth of 0.5-3 millimetres.

As a consequence of the intermediate surfaces 8 between the grooves 6, an essentially unchanged grip of the hand around the guitar neck is obtained. Through the presence of the grooves 6, however, a smaller surface is obtained and thus a lower friction between the hand and the guitar neck, which leads to the hand gliding more easily along the guitar neck also in cases in which hand sweat is present. Furthermore, the grooves 6 ensure that a certain exchange of air takes place at the bowed surface of the guitar neck, which contributes to evaporation of hand sweat when this is present.

A number of embodiments have been described above. The invention may, however, be varied. The grooves may, for example, run parallel to each other, or they may fan out slightly from each other.

Thus the invention is not to be considered to be limited to the embodiments specified above: it can be varied within the scope specified by the attached patent claims.

Claims

1. A guitar neck (1) with an essentially plane surface (2) on the side of the guitar neck at which it is intended that the guitar strings be located and an opposite bowed surface (3), where the guitar neck runs from a neck heel (4) nearest to the body of the guitar to a head (5) at which the guitar strings are attached in a manner that allows adjustment, and where the bowed surface (3) of the guitar neck is provided with grooves (6) that run along the longitudinal direction of the guitar neck between the neck heel (4) and the said head (5), characterised in that the width of the grooves (6) together with a space between two neighbouring grooves is 1-5 millimetres.

2. The guitar neck according to claim 1, characterised in that the grooves (6) have a depth of 0.5-3 millimetres.

3. The guitar neck according to claim 1 or 2, characterised in that the grooves (6) have a rectangular cross-sectional profile.

4. The guitar neck according to claim 1 or 2, characterised in that the grooves (6) have a cross-sectional profile that becomes wider towards the

bottom.

5. The guitar neck according to claim 1 or 2, characterised in that the grooves (6) have a cross-sectional profile that becomes narrower towards the bottom.