P555-A (Folker)
The Patented Riversong Adjustable Neck-Thru System®
Our patented Adjustable Neck-Thru System® offers many benefits including:
- strength
- intonation
- less bracing
- easier playing (due to the ability to make precise adjustments)
- variable top loading
- an even balanced sustain, tone & volume up and down the neck (yes even on the body),
- no more need for an expensive neck reset
- slinky easy string tension
- reduced heel
- integrated strap pins as part of the structure of the guitar
Riversong's unique patented Adjustable Neck-Thru System® also has a truss rod that runs the full length of the neck. Most traditional guitars have a truss rod that ends at the 14th fret with an elongated screw head. Riversong necks have a full-length truss rod that adjusts the entire length. This is closer to how an electric guitar is constructed.
The patented Adjustable Neck-Thru System® has a small amount of flex (like a Strat) and this allows regular gauge strings to feel a lot less stiff further enforcing our electric-like feel.
Our Active Body System
Riversong’s innovation is the active body system. It works by moving the neck all the way through the body allowing two things happen:
- The structure shifts from neck joint to the end block
- The mass of the neck is now equal in and out of the guitar and it is free to vibrate like a tuning fork helping to ring up and down the neck and throughout the body. With the structure coming from the back of the guitar, the body and the neck has a little bit of flex (think more like a Strat vs a Les Paul). This flex gives the body the ability to freely vibrate and give the strings a really slinky feel (low tension)
