Neck measurement question

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When a neck is listed as having certain shape (C,D,U) do you immediately know what it will feel like,  or do you need to know nut width, and depth at the 1st and or 12th fret?

I ask because verify few sellers on Reverb, and on forums listing guitars for sale rarely mention much beyond shape and sometimes nut width.

Or are people that familiar with the different brands, and pretty much know?

Having said all that.....

Are Hamer Artists and Newports typically the "vintage" carve and about .90 at the 1st fret??

Thanks

 
Those shapes can have dofferent measurements. C is most Fender guitars, Thickness and width can vary somewhat. U is early Fender and is typoically thick.lots of shoulder, deep(thick). D has shoulder but not as much as U. 

I still like to see measurements, just makes me feel better.

Hamer Vintage carve is, I believe, their version of a "59 LP neck. Around .90

 
The Musikraft site has some really good detail about various neck carves.   I believe my korina artist is

about .90 at the first but I will recheck.   Hamer definitely thickened them up between 93 and the

2000's...   

 
Citrus said:
When a neck is listed as having certain shape (C,D,U) do you immediately know what it will feel like,  or do you need to know nut width, and depth at the 1st and or 12th fret?
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Absolutely not; no more than "spherical" provides useful information to compare Earth to Jupiter. I find such descriptions useful only if the actual measurements accompany them. An Ibanez Wizard neck is (IIRC, it's been a LONG time...) "D" shaped, but they're less than 0.80" thick at the first fret. My 80's Hamer Phantom had a D-shaped neck that measured 0.88" - they'd feel nothing alike, but are both accurately described as "D" necks.

Citrus said:
I ask because verify few sellers on Reverb, and on forums listing guitars for sale rarely mention much beyond shape and sometimes nut width.
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To my complete and utter frustration. So much so that I have saved sellers that do disclose neck measurements (there are a few on Reverb: Music Zoo, Mike & Mike's Guitar Bar, Guitar Chimp and our own @currypowder (Derby City Gear on Reverb) just off the top of my head). If I pull up an ad and don't see neck measurements and weight, I move on to the next ad, regardless.  [/rant]

 
velorush said:
Absolutely not; no more than "spherical" provides useful information to compare Earth to Jupiter. I find such descriptions useful only if the actual measurements accompany them. An Ibanez Wizard neck is (IIRC, it's been a LONG time...) "D" shaped, but they're less than 0.80" thick at the first fret. My 80's Hamer Phantom had a D-shaped neck that measured 0.88" - they'd feel nothing alike, but are both accurately described as "D" necks.

To my complete and utter frustration. So much so that I have saved sellers that do disclose neck measurements (there are a few on Reverb: Music Zoo, Mike & Mike's Guitar Bar, Guitar Chimp and our own @currypowder (Derby City Gear on Reverb) just off the top of my head). If I pull up an ad and don't see neck measurements and weight, I move on to the next ad, regardless.  [/rant]
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It takes me all of 2 minutes to take 4 neck measurements, weight and include them in my listings. As a seller, why make things harder than they need to be. 

 
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