Patent ID: 6420638
Filing Date: 2002-07-16
Classification: G10D

Abstract:
In an acoustic guitar having a body with a soundboard, a backboard spaced from the soundboard, a sidewall extending between and connecting the soundboard and backboard, and a neck extending from the body sidewall, the soundboard having a soundhole and an underside, and the soundboard, backboard and sidewall being made of synthetic resin laminate sheets, the improvement comprising:a fingerboard adhesively secured to a front face of said neck adjacent strings strung on the acoustic guitar; a bridge secured to the soundboard, said bridge and said fingerboard being made of a same type of high pressure laminate material; and said neck being made of a solid piece of plywood material glued with and at least partially impregnated with a phenolic resin, said plywood material being multiple glued together plies of wood capable of being cut into a desired neck shape including an integral headstock, and said plies being substantially parallel to each other and to said strings and extending substantially perpendicular to a plane common with said fingerboard.