Lefty CBS Goncalo/Macassar neck!!

[baljnm]

Hey everyone, new member to the forum, but not new at all to Warmoth.

So for my 38th birthday this year i decided to order a new neck for my 15 year old Warmoth Custom. The neck i had on her was a fatback flame/birdseye maple with rosewood fretboard, 1 5/8" nut. Well, seeing as i built her when i was in my early 20's, the skinny neck was never an issue. Well, i am much older now, and my hands are somewhat bigger, so i had Warmoth cook me up a nice Goncalo Alves standard thin with Macassar Ebony fretboard, 1 11/16" nut, with some STAINLESS frets!

Well, the neck arrived last thursday. Here she is:

With Sperzels in gold:

mmmmmm good!

And for the guitar its goin on:

Enjoy!

 

[Jusatele]

Tasty, very Tasty

 

[DslDwg]

Besides it being all backwards and stuff - that is one gorgeous neck. Congrats  :headbang:

 

[shan564]

How does the Goncalo + ebony compare to your maple + rosewood neck in terms of tone?

 

[mgaut051]

me want

 

[Nando Vallart]

Lovely neck!!

 

[baljnm]

How does the Goncalo + ebony compare to your maple + rosewood neck in terms of tone?

I am still getting the setup "just right", but so far, the biggest difference is the frets! Its like playing on glass! The guitar is definately more 'lively' and pops more, but again, i feel that has more to do with the frets than anything else.


I clear coated the pegface (when did Warmoth change from water slide decals to stickers??? I HATE the sticker, thats about 15 coats of laquer on there!) and put a few coats of Tung Oil on the back of the neck, just to make it smoother. She is an absolute dream to play.

Check her out here:
http://www.unofficialwarmoth.com/index.php?topic=15817.0

 

[CrackedPepper]

I am still getting the setup "just right"

Well, that's never going to happen since it's a lefty!  :toothy11:  Beautiful neck!

 

[shan564]

How does the Goncalo + ebony compare to your maple + rosewood neck in terms of tone?

I am still getting the setup "just right", but so far, the biggest difference is the frets! Its like playing on glass! The guitar is definately more 'lively' and pops more, but again, i feel that has more to do with the frets than anything else.

Hmm, interesting... I would have expected the goncalo to warm up the tone a bit compared to maple, but I guess the warming effect of rosewood and the brightening effect of ebony are both significant enough to compensate for each other.  I'm still trying to decide what to use for my latest Strat project, so it's good to know that an ebony board can bring a goncalo-ish neck into the maple/rosewood tone range... I wanted to use something that's still Strat-ish, but with a bit more midrange resonance than maple, so I was thinking about slapping an ebony board onto a wenge or bubinga neck... I was concerned that it might end up sounding a bit too warm, but if it works with goncalo, it should work better (for my purpose) with wenge or bubinga...