in order to give a symmetrical appearance, and are often cut from one piece of wood. History "The Log", a prototype solid-body guitar built by Les Paul in 1930s, can be considered as a forerunner of neck-through, as he built it by using a 2x4 piece of pine as the neck and body core, and mounted the disassembled part of an archtop onto it. Rickenbacker was the first guitar manufactured to use the modern variant of this technique, although this was restricted exclusively to semi-hollowbody guit… (More on Neck-through)