Tone_Terrific
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Those who complain about neck angle of a strat vs LP because of some sort of personal preference...
Do you realize that the strings are always, on any guitar, in the same plane and neck angle has zero effect on that?
What shifts is that plane relative to the REAR plane of the guitar.
That means that when you hold the guitar, IF it hangs against you perfectly squarely, a Strat's playing plane will parallel the plane in which it hangs and an LP's will shift slightly, so you must advance your right arm forward and your left rearward to accommodate the location of the playing surface.
OR you simply allow the rear of the body to rotate to bring everything into parallel again.
This is SO NOT a big deal unless your personal body shape or shoulder alignment cannot accommodate a slight shift.
I have seen guitars made with angled tops on the bodies too, but they do exactly the same thing.
However, those preserve the non-neck angled design string-to-body spacing which does increase when a conventional angled neck is installed on a parallel cut body.
This is hard to explain without pictures.
Do you realize that the strings are always, on any guitar, in the same plane and neck angle has zero effect on that?
What shifts is that plane relative to the REAR plane of the guitar.
That means that when you hold the guitar, IF it hangs against you perfectly squarely, a Strat's playing plane will parallel the plane in which it hangs and an LP's will shift slightly, so you must advance your right arm forward and your left rearward to accommodate the location of the playing surface.
OR you simply allow the rear of the body to rotate to bring everything into parallel again.
This is SO NOT a big deal unless your personal body shape or shoulder alignment cannot accommodate a slight shift.
I have seen guitars made with angled tops on the bodies too, but they do exactly the same thing.
However, those preserve the non-neck angled design string-to-body spacing which does increase when a conventional angled neck is installed on a parallel cut body.
This is hard to explain without pictures.