Angled screws for neck pocket

[Heavy Rock]

Has anyone tried this? Does it make a difference, or the tension of the strings is enough to pull the body and neck together?

 

[Hodgo]

Has anyone tried this? Does it make a difference, or the tension of the strings is enough to pull the body and neck together?

If you loosen the screws on a bolt on guitar while under tension you will feel the strings pulling the neck out of the pocket. This design is certainly overkill / marketing, as you would want the angled screws to be angled the opposite way to ideally counteract that force.

But if Keefer can smack a man with his Tele and keep playing in tune, four screws is probably all you need. Heck, 70s Fenders had three and Danelectros sometimes had two, and they were fine.

 

[Heavy Rock]

If you loosen the screws on a bolt on guitar while under tension you will feel the strings pulling the neck out of the pocket. This design is certainly overkill / marketing, as you would want the angled screws to be angled the opposite way to ideally counteract that force.

But if Keefer can smack a man with his Tele and keep playing in tune, four screws is probably all you need. Heck, 70s Fenders had three and Danelectros sometimes had two, and they were fine.

Yeah exactly what I was thinking too, and also pulling the heel from two different directions (vertically and angled), puts unnecessary stress on the wood in that area. Like asking to split it.

 

[NedRyerson]

This screams "solution looking for a problem."