rao14 FRETBOARD.COM -- Ferdor Neck Myths Oeburked The Actual Terminology Of Fender's Guitar Neck Lingo Over the years there has been a growing distortion, a ‘street! interpretation of the Fender guitar neck terminology, creating some very real misconceptions and ideas about what the names of the neck shapes and types of Fender's guitar necks really are. Ina desire to restore the correct terminology to its rightful place, so we can all truly understand and know what we're really talking about when we say that a particular guitar has a "C" neck or a "U" neck which, by the way, have entirely different meanings when it comes to describing a given neck, I have created this article, s talk about neck shape or profile. The common term we use now is that a guitar, say a Stratocaster, 1eck, which describes it's ‘feel. But this is incorrect terminology. The graphic below is from Fender and describes the five basic neck profile types. Early 50s “U-shape” Early 50s “Soft V" 60s-style “Oval” -900" at 1st fret 850" at 1st fret 810" at 1st fret As you can see, “ ” the Sy ey ‘Shoulder’ oficial Mid-50s “Hard V" Modern “Flat Oval” 820" at 1st fret 780" at 1st fret designations are far different than you are probably used to hearing when describing the neck of the Fender guitars. The numbers below the profile decriptions are the thickness of the fiet board, font to back, at the first fret, not the width of the ffet board, pin retooare convfendernecterityind 19