Goncalvo Alves weight vs Maple

[Mincer]

Hi all, first post here. I was reading a quite a few posts about Goncalo Alves and how it is a pretty heavy wood. While different websites say that it is certainly denser than maple, I wonder if anyone here has ever compared it as a Strat neck wood to a maple/rosewood combo. I don't want 'neck dive' and Warmoth doesn't really list neck weights. Thanks for any help.

 

[m4rk0]

I am sure it is different from neck to neck, but..
I have a really fat (fatback) goncalo tele neck on my hollow thinline, and there are no diving issues for me..

 

[rockskate4x]

It is heavy but it shouldn't be worried about as much as things like strap placement and tuner weight. for example, if your building a strat the upper strap button hovers really far out there... almost above the 12th fret, so it would be really difficult make a guitar like that neck heavy. But if you are building a thinline tele, SG, or some other really lightwieght body without ideal strap button placement, then I would be a little concerned with wieght of neck/tuners.

 

[CrackedPepper]

I have a standard thin contour gonc neck on a alder body strat with staggered chrome Sperzel tuning machines.  It's relatively heavy but neck diving is not an issue.

 

[Mincer]

Thanks...yes this would be for standard thin, smaller strat headstock, 1 5/8" nut width, scalloped neck to go on a chambered strat body. I was just hoping I wasn't looking at twice as heavy as a maple neck, but with my specs, it might not matter much.

also, as a side question, how endangered is Goncalo? I don't want to make the problem worse because I want a cool looking neck.

 

[-CB-]

I am sure it is different from neck to neck, but..
I have a really fat (fatback) goncalo tele neck on my hollow thinline, and there are no diving issues for me..

What Marko said

 

[CrackedPepper]

It's not considered to be endangered like Brazilian rosewood and is often used in placed of rosewood for similar applications.

 

[willievega]

I can't tell with the neck I recieved yesterday. It's a G/A neck. They may vary, mine weighs about the same. Oh, and the neck I recieved doesn't have much by way of dark streaks. So if you want a good substitute for maple (as far as looks) this may work. Mine is a tan color that almost comes across like a maple neck with a tint. Play it RAW!!!

 

[willievega]

The one I have is a Fatback with CBS headstock. It weighs like Maple. I like the heavy guitars though.