Showroom

THUMB BOARD TAILORING

(shelves and grooves optional)

Neck Shelves

A neck shelf is created when the curve that rolls into the fretboard from the thumb board, is flattened creating what we refer to as a shelf. This creates an ergonomic shape for the players hand. A shelf can be placed at the top, bottom or both sections of the thumb board creating a comfort zone for the purlicue of your hand, where both the top and bottom of the thumb board is shelved.

Neck Grooves

A neck groove is a shallow groove placed below or above the truss rod to compliment the players thumb tendencies. With every Tailor kit that we ship to our clients, we include custom tools that we call “short necks.” These short necks help us understand your unique thumb travel tendencies. Custom grooves are then created to compliment your thumb paths.

This image points to the location of the purlicue on the human hand

This is an image explaining thumb grooves and thumb shelves on the necks of Thumb Groove Guitar

FINGERBOARD TAILORING

FRETTED & FRETLESS - Hybrid Necks

Fact: Hybrid Necks are NOT for everyone

This is an image explaining the difference in hybrid necks for Thumb Groove Guitars

Let's Get Microtonal

Traditional necks are what we’ve all cut our teeth on and are preferred by most of our clients. Still, we offer hybrid necks for those who are sound explorers. A Hybrid neck is a fretted/fretless neck design that empowers the musician who wants to play outside of the box. The exact design is requested by the musician that the neck is built for. One popular design is a standard fretted neck to the 12th fret and fretless after the 12th. (A fretted octave followed by a fretless octave) Any combination can be created upon request.

Fretless necks are a challenge, one strategy is to employ pedals to help achieve amazing tones when playing on the fretless section. With these unique neck designs guitarists will be able to explore and discover new tones that only the hybrid necks offer

Phantom Pickups

In the 1950’s, pioneers of the electric guitar created guitar body designs with lines that have become timeless. One could refer to that era as the pinnacle of electric guitar design.

I always felt pickups interrupted the flow of the lines of the guitar. Imagine a '67 Vet with its' hood removed, the lines of the car become broken disrupting the flow of it's beautiful lines.

Phantom pickups were developed so the 'hood' could be closed over the pickups, allowing the flow of the guitars' design to be uninterrupted. Phantom pickups are considerably stronger allowing them to be placed beneath the pick guard or the wood of the guitar body itself. Allowing Thumb Groove guitars to compliment 20th century guitar design but also bring a 21st century styling to the classic electric guitar design.

Long Live Hooded Guitars.