is this normal?

[stratman219]

towards the top of the neck, if i try to bend it the neck will bend, like the strings will get closer to the body and i'm not pressing down the the strings either. i did it to my fender and it did the same thing, just not as much, probably because of the thicker neck. and the neck joints are tight. so is this normal?

[Project Guitar]

Yup thats normal, necks will bend if pushed and if pushed to hard will snap.......

Bummer huh

[spacenuke]

yep, definitely normal. ever seen Joe Perry bend the neck on a Les Paul?

[Project Guitar]

They even bend without you pushing on them, thats why when setting up action, you should adjust it in player's position cause it will be off if you do it with the guitar laying down........

[Rich]

That was my whammy for 15 years

[Sypher]

There was some crazy acoustic jazz or blues player that did that on purpose with his acoustic.

[Courjan]

Nuno does that on More Than Words. The harmonics at the end of the crazy tapping section is vibrated by bending the neck.