Carbon Neck

About Carbon Neck

With the cooperation of Sumimaru Guitar, a manufacturer of all-carbon acoustic guitars,
We have developed and produced the first carbon neck for electric guitars and basses in Japan.

To avoid the rugged and cold image of conventional carbon necks, we have devised a new way to burnish the carbon.
By making the neck hollow, we designed it to be soft and to sound solid like wood.

It also feels similar to wood when you hold the instrument or grip the neck.

Please try carbon as a new material to replace wood, which is depleting and rising in price.

Feature

With wood, the neck moves (bends) as the wood absorbs and expels moisture even after the instrument is completed.
Carbon has no such concerns, and its greatest feature is that it can maintain the neck condition once it is set.

Also, like a wood neck, a truss rod is installed so that the string height can be adjusted and the condition of the neck (straight, slightly bowed, etc.) can be fine-tuned.

Important point

We receive the custom order subject to the limited specification as under due to the production of the carbon neck.

【6 strings Guitar】
Radius: 9.5 inch
Scale: 648mm 
Flet: 22F (JEACAR #47095)
※It is adapted Sago “Classic Style S” and Sago “Sonia” as standard specification.

【7 strings Guitar】
Radius: 16 inch
Scale: 648mm 
Flet: 24F (JESCAR #57110)
※It is adapted Sago “Ymir7” as standard specification.

【Bass】
Radius: 9.5 inch
Scale: 864mm 
Flet: 21F
It is adapted Sago “Ove” and “Tabuchi MK-II” as standard specification. It is possible to be jointed Sago “Classic Style J4”.

Luminray is used for side position marks.
The frets are made of stainless steel, but can be changed by up-charging.

※Custom Grip, scale except of the above, addition of the fret and change of the head shape are not available in our custom order.

※It is possible to add the dot position mark on the fingerboard additional costs JPY10,000.- but custom inlay is not available in our custom order.

※Regarding the limitation for the specification of the neck, when you choose the carbon neck in our custom order, it might be necessary to discuss the total specification of the guitars and basses.

Sound

①Hard Maple
②Light Thermo Maple
③Carbon
We have compared these three neck materials in same pickup position, phrase and playing technique.

We think that the Carbon neck is flat sound against the wood neck and sound uniformly.

【Recording situation】
Bass sound is recorded by Line (DI) and miking on the amp of SWR in our factory and blended both sounds.
6 Strings guitar sound is recorded with 3 microphones on the amp of Jazz Chorus(JC-40) in our factory.
7 strings guitar is recorded by Line (DI) and miking Sound by BIAS AMP2 to sound Clean and Deep Drive.

↓ See the blog for a more detailed explanation.