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CONTOURED NECK HEEL

Contoured neck heel on Frudua guitars and basses.

To facilitate the reaching of the higher frets on bolt on necks, luthiers and builders developed a variety of solutions called "contoured neck heel". This is obtained by carving the neck heel area on the body side in various different ways and by bolting the neck using four ferrules instead of a neck plate.

Galeazzo Frudua

As a luthier and lutherie teacher, since 1988 he has been making about 350 boutique guitars and basses priced from 2,900 to 5,600 Euros and repaired and customized thousands of string instruments. His instruments and amplifiers are used by flagship artists, such as Chick Corea, Peter Gabriel, Ennio Morricone, Vasco Rossi. He owns two YouTube channels—where he teaches music—that count up to 25+ million views and almost 140.000 subscribers.