Fender P Bass Headstock Dimensions

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Fender p bass headstock dimensions. Inspired by the design style and comfort of the strat guitar todays p bass body is designed for playability high in the neck. 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. Using a 6 150 mm ruler measure the distance from the bottom of the first and fourth strings to top of the pole piece. It appears that they left enough wood so that it can be cut to the correct shape.

This file will show you many different fender headstocks and tele pickguards used over the years. Fender musiclander or arrow body only courtesy to someone named ricardo. Fender headstocks and pickguards drawings measurements etc. 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.

We are looking for the distance from one side of the nut to the other parallel side. The drawing should help me to cut it just right. Size revision time user. 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.

Each page is a different drawing. Its a 51 p bass copy except for the headstock.