Does Warmoth do sealer on raw necks?

[NQbass7]

So I was looking around at Warmoth's site, and I noticed this on their "Neck Finishes" page:

All our necks are dipped in an oil based penetrating sealer which is compatible with virtually all secondary finishes.

Is this also true for raw necks? IANAWW (I am not a wood-worker), but I feel like for many of their raw woods like Wenge or Pau Ferro any oil would have trouble penetrating the wood at all, with how dense and oily they are. And after my necks got the burnishing treatment from a certain Mr. Cagey, there wouldn't be any coating from the sealer... so how is this actually useful? And do they really do it on all the necks they list as raw?

 

[Patrick from Davis]

Yes, all of the necks get a dip in the sealer.  Lots of people like to use high grit sand paper to "clean up" the necks when they arrive, myself included.  It will wear off with use, and can feel a bit gummy until gone.
Patrick

 

[Tonar8352]

You can order it unsealed but there is an up-charge to leave it raw. I have done it on several of my personal necks back in the day when I made more money than I knew what to do with.

 

[Jumble Jumble]

An upcharge to leave it raw is pretty difficult to justify.

 

[Tonar8352]

Special handling is always more expensive, it changes production methods and I was willing to pay.

Once several yeas ago I asked if we could send up a neck that we wanted matched exactly and the set up fee for the CNC was astronomical. I fully understand and that one never got built  :laughing7:

 

[Jumble Jumble]

Yeah, setting up a custom CNC program based on a real object is a bit different to not dipping a neck though!

 

[XmasTree]

Hello
been lurking a while.  am in the process of 1st build
my warmoth neck is in the mail - and i didn't get a finish

QUESTION
I should be good to stain the neck then seal w/ tru oil even though Warmoth sealed it w/ their stuff?
i'm good right?
thanks dudes, i appreciate any input you got

 

[stubhead]

It's actually a very handy thing, because given their delay time on the to-order stuff, what often happens to me is I order something right when I have the time for it and 4 or 6 or 12 weeks later, I can't get to it and it may sit another considerable period... without string tension of course, but it keeps you from violating the warranty for a crucial period. Though, that warranty bit always gets tossed by me within a few days of starting the work. On the "Pro" necks with the double rod, I find it very hard to imagine wood strong enough to warp that puppy, though I can see (and really hear!) the difference between the single & double rods.

It's not a better/worse thing though, just another of the woodier/steelier questions and shadings to work through and manipulate with the other choices. I had the unusual experience of playing my #1 Tele straight through for about 10 years with a Warmoth Q-sawn maple, double truss rod, boatneck with a scalloped ebony board. So I was extremely familiar with it's "voice" and what could be done to it's range with some really wide-ranging electronics... then in 2011 I traded it with the single-rodded USA Custom neck off of Gleamo (I got it from USACG because I really want a slightly small though still-"boaty" profile). Both guitars had drastic personality changes. I can't describe them as "like taking a blanket off the amp!" because I've never, ever heard a guitar amp with a blanket on it - what a retarded thing to do that would be! Just like Simon Assmouth doesn't really spend his every free minute traveling around on second-rate ship "cruises" so he'll have plenty of shitty singing to compare shitty singers to on "Voice!" or "Mouth!" or wherever he waddled up to now - I'm been in recovery from TV four proud years now.  :hello2:

But both guitars caught a fortuitious case of Happyneck.