do you know what the tone difference is between roasted and normal maple?

Roasted? I've never heard of that before.

Do you mean torrefied? I've never heard of a roasted neck before.

_________________
"reach for the sky and aim for the moon, for if you miss you will end up among the stars"

Zoom MS50G
72 tele dlx RI
2011 standard strat
Blackstar HT-5R
Taylor Big Baby

http://www.youtube.com/user/Almungo/videos?flow=grid&view=0

I knew before I opened this thread that you were going to ask about "tone."

You wanna know the tone difference? The tone difference is that every minute you spend online researching the "tone" difference of a "roasted" neck is a minute you wasted when you could have been improving your playing.

I mean c'mon... Think of the thousands, maybe millions of hours of incredible guitar music that has been played, and not single performance featured a roasted neck.

_________________
Jim Bordner
Gravity Music - www.gravitymusic.com
Composer, producer, Egnater Artist

The roasted necks came out last year from Ernie Ball/Music Man.

http://www.music-man.com/news/product-a ... necks.html

I like the look of them, but have no experience with same. I had trouble finding any good information and wonder if them still offer the option.

Nice looking wood finish

An endless array of tones are available by simply tweaking the tone knobs on your guitar/amp.

Roasted turkey necks make excellent gravy.

Supposedly they are more stiff and therefore more stable; I've never played one but they do have an interesting look.

It's not just EBMM doing these - Tom Anderson does something similar that he calls his "chocolate maple" because his come out looking almost like a solid rosewood neck. John Suhr also does one; his necks are called "vulcanized" and look black almost like solid ebony.

I recommend roasting at 375 for about an hour, hour and a half.

They are aesthetically pleasing to the eye. Supposedly lend more sustain to the guitar and are stiffer than a typical maple neck with a rosewood or ebony fingerboard. They do have a lacquer coat to protect the wood which is not typical for a Musicman guitar. Their guitars are known for the oil rubbed finish on the necks.

Sounds like BS to me.

Another marketing gimmick aimed at insecure guitar players. Reminds me of the new golf drivers that come out every single year and my golf buddies just gotta have one (but it never helps their game)... Skip the "broasted" guitar neck and just practice, practice, practice.

_________________
Dennis in CR
Rockin' since 1963

Maybe roasted maple necks could be seen as a gimmick, but their intrinsic value goes beyond that--roasted maple is much more stable than KD wood and does have a different (higher) resonant frequency. It comes close to replicating a long aging process on a KD maple neck.

Look for this wood to come into wider use as time goes on, and not just for necks, either.

In Tennessee we roast maple into charcoal and filter sour mash whiskey through it...

A quote from John Suhr about his "vulcanized" necks:

"Basically it is baked in an oxygen free kiln after the normal drying process and very high temperature until the point where all the organic elements, sap, and everything else is baked out. It rings like a bell and is ultra stable. You can soak one side of the wood with water and it wont move shrink, bend. These are extremely stable and have excellent tonal properties. Every guitar I make for myself will be vulcanized. We are also building some with no truss rods."

If the wood is dryer and stiffer than the normal maple necks, I can see how it would have an affect on tone, maybe subtle, but there.

_________________
---> "The amp should be SWITCHED OFF AND UNPLUGGED before you do this!" <---

Por favor, disculpe mi español, no se llega a la práctica con mucha frecuencia.

I wonder If they put Maple syrup on it when there done.