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Post subject: No Quartersawn on AA Flame Necks
Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2008 12:33 pm
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Just learned something new today. I placed my order for a Custom Team Built Strat on Tuesday. We had originally requested a quartersawn AA maple neck in the order; however, the guy that I ordered it from just got back to me and said that the AA flame maple necks are not quartersawn.

If there has to be a tradeoff, i'd go with the AA Flame because the quartersawn is just more stable, otherwise, not a big deal for the average guitar player like myself. Just sharing what I learned. Hope that helps somebody out there in this great forum.


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Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2008 12:49 pm
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Because of the way the wood is sawn you can't get a flamed neck

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-quartersawn-wood.htm

Some say it's more stable. I have many highly flamed necks or birdseye neck and never faced any stability problem with them .
But sometime a nice plain quartersawn neck is visually relaxing :wink:
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Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2008 12:52 pm
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alainlafrance wrote:
Because of the way the wood is sawn you can't get a flamed neck

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-quartersawn-wood.htm

Some say it's more stable. I have many highly flamed necks or birdseye neck and never faced any stability problem with them .
But sometime a nice plain quartesawn neck is visually relaxing :wink:
Alain


Agreed and thank you for the link to the article. I really like the AA flame on the Strat, I got my strat in Bing Cherry Transparent, light weight ash body, all nitro, no WLS, no Undercoat with a tinted neck.


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Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 9:53 pm
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There's actually no downside to a highly flamed piece of maple. The flamed maple piece is incredibly strong, just from how it's cut, and where it comes from, and it's natural characteristics. Quartersawn is highly stable, but a flamed maple neck would not give up anything. A "flameless, and or non-quartersawn" piece would not be as stable.

That was the answer from a journeyman finishing carpenter who specializes in maple. He also teaches the craft. He added this :" You guitar guys talk yourselves into all kinds of s**t that doesn't have any validity. You ever work on a piece of highly flamed maple, and you'll know how miserably hard it is to work with, and how strong it is. It will never move. Same with quartersawn, except maybe a bit easier to work with, but just as strong."

There it is boys and girls.


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