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Simple trick to meaure neck thickness with strings on

Posted on 16. December 20156. June 2016

Recently I wanted to measure the neck thickness of some of my guitars. I was surprised to find something as trivial as this to turn out to be rather difficult job. The strings always hindered my calipers from lying flat against the neck surface, no matter how I tried. I solved the problem with the help of a little battery that turned out as the ideal tool to help with […]

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