I have three Warmoth maple necks. The first one I ordered for my Vester Traditional strat was well....my first and you live and learn. I didn't order any finish for it since I like the feel of no finish...but then after, I noticed the warning that WM puts on the finish page on the website which reads, "if you don't finish it and it does the pretzel act, we don't want to hear about it". I called my son, who had received the neck to tell him not to play it since he would get oil from his hands into the wood...but I was too late. Anyway, he tried to put a finish on after and it didn't work at all. You could see where he had played mostly in A and B...it was dirty looking on the back of the neck there and the finish didn't stick.
Well, now about 8 months later, the neck is doing a bit of a pretzel act. It's twisting towards the bass E side. You can see it by looking down from the head that the head is off plane with the body. The other two WM "strats" I have are perfectly in line and both are Satin finished. But the main thing was I noticed a bit of flat note in the bass E 12th fret vs the 12th fret harmonic. I checked them all again ( it was set up perfect in Sept) and the E was way off, the A a bit better, the D a bit better. Anyway,...now I get a new project putting another new neck (and bridge)
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Anything you can do with a slightly twisted neck to repair it? Hang an engine block off of it to stretch it back? :laughing7:
Well, now about 8 months later, the neck is doing a bit of a pretzel act. It's twisting towards the bass E side. You can see it by looking down from the head that the head is off plane with the body. The other two WM "strats" I have are perfectly in line and both are Satin finished. But the main thing was I noticed a bit of flat note in the bass E 12th fret vs the 12th fret harmonic. I checked them all again ( it was set up perfect in Sept) and the E was way off, the A a bit better, the D a bit better. Anyway,...now I get a new project putting another new neck (and bridge)
Anything you can do with a slightly twisted neck to repair it? Hang an engine block off of it to stretch it back? :laughing7: