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Hi all....
I managed to get hold of this neck from a guy who bought a load of Burns bits at an auction.
I think it is an artiste neck, but it only has 22 frets, and no truss rod.?.
It also has the offset contour neck profile, like many early artistes.
Also the 3 dots at the 12th fret are just like the arrangement featured on Burns artistes
I.... it's definitely an artiste neck up until the 12th fret.. then it's just weird. I don't know what to think, maybe it's home made, but it looks too good. Maybe it was an old artist neck that was cut down, and then bolted to another guitar? The neck screw holes are all over the place, so I think it wasn't drilled for the neck screws.
The Tuners are the same as what the early artistes had too.
Scale is exactly the same too.
Any help please!?
Pat

Please could you reduce the image size of your pics so they don't have scroll bars? Then we could get a better idea of what the neck looks like.

Ray

Okay I'll try, Sorry.
Didn't realize they'd come out that big.

The neck isn't really likely to be from a production Artist or Sonic, simply because they had inset (glued) necks (as far as I remember).

Perhaps it's either from an early Burns prototype (before the decision was made to go with glueing-in), or maybe it's a Short-scale Jazz prototype.

Or maybe it was a school woodwork project circa 1962 (particularly in view of the statement that there is no truss-rod) and nothing to do with Burns?

JN

Jim could be right there, making electric guitars was a popular project in the early 60's, like many I did try but ran out of woodwork lessons, I sold my attempt a few years later, but now 1/2 a century on I realise that even if I'd finished it, it would probably have been a disaster because none of us, woodwork master included, new anything about the dynamics of an electric guitar.

I could imagine a lot of projects got started and with only a couple of hours a week never got beyond a body or a neck, and as for a truss rod, how would most of us known anything about sourcing one let alone how it should work or how to fit it?.

Geoff