{"id":10433,"date":"2017-01-18T12:00:16","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T17:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/?p=10433"},"modified":"2017-01-18T12:19:19","modified_gmt":"2017-01-18T17:19:19","slug":"anatomy-of-a-guitar-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/gear\/hardware\/anatomy-of-a-guitar-body.html","title":{"rendered":"Anatomy of a guitar body"},"content":{"rendered":"

Periodically we get questions asking what certain areas of a guitar body are called, so we put together a quick set of photos as a reference.<\/p>\n

Below: Top body overall view<\/p>\n

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Below: Top view, forearm contour.<\/p>\n

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Below: Top view, lower bout.<\/p>\n

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Below: Top view, upper bout.<\/p>\n

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Below: Top view, treble side lower bout.<\/p>\n

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Below: Top view, lower cutaway \/ lower horn.<\/p>\n

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Below: Top view, upper cutaway \/ upper horn.<\/p>\n

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Below: The waist (the narrowest part of the guitar body).<\/p>\n

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Below: The headstock (Fender calls this a pegboard) with 4 inline tuners.<\/p>\n

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Below: Bass bridge with individual string saddles per bass string. The screws seen in the saddle are generally referred to as height adjustment or action adjustment screws. The larger screws from the rear of the bridge are generally referred to as intonation adjustment screws.<\/p>\n

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Below: Bottom view, back side.<\/p>\n

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Below: Bottom view with “tummy cut”, also known as “belly cut”, also known as “rear contour shape”.<\/p>\n

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Below: Four inline tuners with open gears.<\/p>\n

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Below: Bottom view, heel.<\/p>\n

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Periodically we get questions asking what certain areas of a guitar body are called, so we put together a quick set of photos as a reference. Below: Top body overall view Below: Top view, forearm contour. Below: Top view, lower bout. Below: Top view, upper bout. Below: Top view, treble side lower bout. Below: Top … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":10434,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10433"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}