Toppscore...bare wood? Be careful with bare wood especially if you play any outdoor gigs in any amount of humidity...necks like that can swell up from soaking in the moisture which is not a good thing. T2

I agree. I just go it in. It's a Warmoth.
Koa wood, I believe. Seems bare, but could have stain and protection.
Definitely can feel the grain, and it seems porous.

But, plays better than my glossy necks.

Some of the Spanish guitarbuilders used the white stuff from eggs on the guitars body. maybe you should think the same way, maybe not with eggs.. just go over it with something that protects the wood without effecting your playing (and probably something that do not smell like eggs) (if you are going to sand the neck)

A little thing about modifications since people talk about em on this topic. I'm considering to stop soldering on the pickups during replacements, just connect them with krimps instead. Then it should be a quick job trying out different pickups. Someone tried it?

A little thing about modifications since people talk about em on this topic. I'm considering to stop soldering on the pickups during replacements, just connect them with krimps instead. Then it should be a quick job trying out different pickups. Someone tried it?

Actually I was thinking about something like this for quite some time.
It would be cool to have "plug and play" connectors to the jack and the spring claw.
Just change fully loaded pickguards by plugging in the two connections and putting in the 8 or 11 pickguard screws.

Even better: having kind of a drawer-like construction. Simply pull out the "drawer" and push in another one with different pickups! All without even downtune the strings or dismount the neck!

Rockinger constructed something like that to produce their Pickup-demo-CD.



They simply pull out the fully mounted slider, drawer, whatever you wanna call it and push in another one with different PUs.
Of course it should look a little nicer than on the picture!

Actually I was thinking about something like this for quite some time. It would be cool to have "plug and play" connectors to the jack and the spring claw. Just change fully loaded pickguards by plugging in the two connections and putting in the 8 or 11 pickguard screws. Even better: having kind of a drawer-like construction. Simply pull out the "drawer" and push in another one with different pickups! All without even downtune the strings or dismount the neck! Rockinger constructed something like that to produce their Pickup-demo-CD. They simply pull out the fully mounted slider, drawer, whatever you wanna call it and push in another one with different PUs. Of course it should look a little nicer than on the picture!

Hey Toppscore, imagine the pickups rotating around like a CD, would maybe sound like a copter.