James Rogers

What matters is coupling stiffness, surface contact, and clamping force. A masterfully built bolt-on will outperform a sloppy set-neck every day of the week. A tight neck-through will behave nearly identically to a tight set-neck. The joint type is a manufacturing decision, not an acoustic one.

If you have questions about our choices, visit our FAQ page. As we progress, we will add to this section of the website to try to answer your questions about what goes into creating and building a VRC Guitar.

At VRC Guitars, we’ve chosen Stringjoy 9.5–46 strings as the house set on every guitar we build. We like the balance they provide between comfort, tuning stability, and responsiveness, while their tension profile gives the strings a consistent feel across the fretboard. For us, it’s a small but important part of the overall setup. We want every VRC Guitar to arrive feeling familiar, comfortable, and ready to play right out of the case. Learn more about the concept of balanced tension here.