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Post subject: Re: White Neck Q
Posted: Tue May 20, 2014 8:48 am
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Retroverbial wrote:
That's really aging nicely, Toronado.

Love that Oly White!

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Thanks Arjay, seems the neck won't have any finish left before long. :shock:

There's quite a lot of guitar porn on this thread! I dig! 8)


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Post subject: Re: White Neck Q
Posted: Tue May 20, 2014 8:56 am
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Toronado wrote:
Thanks Arjay, seems the neck won't have any finish left before long.


Indeed.

Nitrocellulose lacquer is a double-edged sword -- it doesn't wear nearly as well as the various poly-goo finishes. But it looks oh-so-sweet as does.

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Post subject: Re: White Neck Q
Posted: Tue May 20, 2014 3:32 pm
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JS...Looks like your guitar is Lake Placid Blue and wow it has got some nice natural relicing, no the fake stuff!

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Post subject: Re: White Neck Q
Posted: Tue May 20, 2014 8:15 pm
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Not without problems, though. Many of the first one-piece necks had a tendency to twist, something that was rarely seen with ebony and rosewood fretboard necks, because the composite construction added rigidity. At one point it became bad enough that Fender stopped producing all-maple necks altogether.

They switched to the rosewood cap because Leo thought the maple necks looked bad and dirty as the finish wore off, not because the necks were twisting.

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Post subject: Re: White Neck Q
Posted: Tue May 20, 2014 9:00 pm
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They switched to the rosewood cap because Leo thought the maple necks looked bad and dirty as the finish wore off, not because the necks were twisting.


+1

This observation is well-documented in several books covering FEIC's early years.

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