How to tell neck type without measuring?

[Yzerman]

Hi guys,

I'm just wondering if the neck carve is written in the pickup cavity or if measuring is the only way?

Thanks

 

[rugerpc]

If you can get the MODCAT code for the guitar off of the case or in a pup cavity, the decoder here will specify neck carve:

http://forums.prsguitars.com/threads/2013-modcat-decoders.6650/

 

[CoreyT]

Run your modcat number here, the info should be there.
http://forums.prsguitars.com/threads/2013-modcat-decoders.6650/

 

[rugerpc]

Har, har, har. Beat ya by a minute!

 

[watelessness]

I do it by feel:

• If it feels right and looks like a normal width, it's a wide/fat or pattern
• If it feels right and looks small, it's a DGT
• If it feels wrong it's wide/thin, pattern thin, pattern regular, regular, or standard

 

[ADP]

In an old PRS video, which might have been from the late eighties, Paul showed that you could tell a wide/thin from a wide/fat by looking at the shape of the heel. I wonder if that's still the case.

 

[BMiller]

In an old PRS video, which might have been from the late eighties, Paul showed that you could tell a wide/thin from a wide/fat by looking at the shape of the heel. I wonder if that's still the case.

Do you have a link for that? I'm curious about my '91 CU24....

 

[garrettb]

As already said, if it has a modcat, that's the easiest way. I'm assuming you don't have the hang tag? If it's an earlier guitar, it's written in the bridge pickup rout.

We need to know the year and model to help narrow it down.

 

[Yzerman]

Thanks for the info guys, it's a 1998 ce 22 in Mcarty Burst with trem. I don't have the guitar yet and the previous owner wasn't sure.

 

[garrettb]

Cool. So no modcat then. Most likely wide fat, but I think wide thin used to be an option. If there's no hang tag, check the bridge pup rout. You'll see either WF or WT written amongst the other details.

 

[ADP]

If you look for "1990 PRS Video" on YouTube, at 20' 50" a very young Paul talks about the available neck shapes. I've just watched it again (it's been a few years), and he shows how you could tell the difference between a regular and a wide/thin back then by looking st the shape and size of the heel. He doesn't say anything about the heel on a wide/fat.

 

[garrettb]

If you look for "1990 PRS Video" on YouTube, at 20' 50" a very young Paul talks about the available neck shapes. I've just watched it again (it's been a few years), and he shows how you could tell the difference between a regular and a wide/thin back then by looking st the shape and size of the heel. He doesn't say anything about the heel on a wide/fat.

That's because WF was first introduced on the Dragon in 1992.

 

[ADP]

That's because WF was first introduced on the Dragon in 1992.

He does mention the wide/fat profile in the video, saying that "we put these on a lot of our Artist guitars". He just doesn't mention the heel.

 

[garrettb]

He does mention the wide/fat profile in the video, saying that "we put these on a lot of our Artist guitars". He just doesn't mention the heel.

Oh very interesting. I didn't think they offered it until the set neck 22 fret models came out. Learn something new every day. That video is all kinds of fantastic, BTW!