Fender P Bass Headstock Dimensions

Size revision time user. Using a 6 150 mm ruler measure the distance from the bottom of the first and fourth strings to top of the pole piece.

The drawing should help me to cut it just right.

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Fender p bass headstock dimensions. Each page is a different drawing. If you download the pdf open it in adobe and click back and forth between a 2 models you can see the minor differences between each one. A good rule of thumb is that the distance should be greatest at the fourth string neck pickup position and closest at the first string bridge pickup position.

A 38 tuner will have a hole that is 916 in diameter a 12 tuner will have a hole that is 1116 in diameter measure the nut that secures the tuner to the headstock. Fender musiclander or arrow body only courtesy to someone named ricardo. The modern fender american standard precision bass is a guitar with a b neck with a modern c neck shape with b referring to nut width and modern c referring to the curve shape of the back of the neck.

Since 1946 fenders iconic stratocasters telecasters and precision jazz bass guitars have transformed nearly every music genre. It appears that they left enough wood so that it can be cut to the correct shape. Its a 51 p bass copy except for the headstock.

This file will show you many different fender headstocks and tele pickguards used over the years. We are looking for the distance from one side of the nut to the other parallel side. Fender headstocks and pickguards drawings measurements etc.

Inspired by the design style and comfort of the strat guitar todays p bass body is designed for playability high in the neck. Installing bass tuners guide. Depress strings at last fret.