The necks joined the bodies at the fourteenth fret and were attached by a dovetail joint. Smaller bodied guitars had slightly thinner, narrower necks. ![]() The 1950s necks retained this profile, though they were slightly fuller and the V a bit less pronounced. The necks in the early 1930s tended to be rather flat and wide and from the mid-1930s through the 1940s had a definite V-profile. The model specs in the 19 catalogs changed from “mahogany” to “cherry hardwood” or “hardwood cherry” in all models that mentioned the neck wood: Broadway, Blackstone, Olympic. ![]() ![]() Epiphone necks ranged from one piece of mahogany, to laminated mahogany, to laminated designs of curly maple and mahogany with three pieces of maple and two dividing strips of mahogany, to four parts of maple with three stripes of mahogany.
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