Patent ID: 7838750

Claim:
A stringed musical instrument comprising: a body having: a front; a back; and a neck receiving cavity defined at least in part by a sloped substantially planar major bearing surface flanked on opposite sides by a cutout surface and a major bearing side surface wherein the cavity has a cavity depth defined as a distance from the front of the body to the major bearing surface, the cavity depth being greater at the major bearing side surface than at the cutout surface; wherein the cutout surface and major bearing side surface intersect the sloped substantially planar major bearing surface at different angles; an elongated neck having a joint section received in the neck receiving cavity, the joint section having a sloped substantially planar rear bearing surface opposite a fret surface, a first surface opposite a second surface, wherein the first surface faces the major bearing side surface, the sloped rear bearing surface faces the sloped major bearing surface, and the second surface faces the cutout surface; and at least one connector passing through the sloped major bearing surface such that the slope of the major bearing surface combined with the joining force of the connector biases the first surface laterally into the major bearing side surface.