Make exotic wood skunk stripe / truss plug an option

[clearerphish]

I am seeing this option occasionally on Vintage modern necks in the showcase, and when I emailed Dan to inquire about it, was told it was not available in anything but kingswood or pau ferro and if I saw it in any other wood, it was a one-off. I would love to see this become an option, as I'd really like to order a flame maple or birdseye maple neck with an ebony stripe/truss plug, and would happily pay an extra 45 bucks or whatever the cost.

 

[blue313]

I thought walnut was the standard skunk stripe, but then again I don't work for Warmoth.  :laughing7:

I'd like to see this option as well.  /signed

 

[clearerphish]

Clariication: Walnut is currently standard, for a 45 dollar upcharge you can get Kingswood or Pau Ferro only.

 

[blue313]

Hmm, I wonder if there's any reasoning behind some of the wood choices due to differences in expansion and contraction.

Ebony does sounds like it could be cool.

 

[dbw]

I'd really like to order a flame maple or birdseye maple neck with an ebony stripe/truss plug, and would happily pay an extra 45 bucks or whatever the cost.

There was a maple neck with an ebony stripe/plug on the showcase recently.  Maybe it's still there.  But I think it might have been plain maple.

 

[clearerphish]

Blue - I was told it was more due to having leftover materials after finishing a fretboard and feeling like doing a one-off. I say save the fretboard scrap and make an extra 45 bucks per board.

dbx - thanks for the heads up, but I think that neck has an ebony fretboard, and I want a maple neck AND fretboard with the ebony stripe and pluig. Oh, and I want FIGURE - it'f going on something wicked (I hope - they've still got it in the paint shop)

 

[clearerphish]

I'd really like to order a flame maple or birdseye maple neck with an ebony stripe/truss plug, and would happily pay an extra 45 bucks or whatever the cost.

There was a maple neck with an ebony stripe/plug on the showcase recently.  Maybe it's still there.  But I think it might have been plain maple.

I finally noticed the neck you were talking about - thx for the heads up, but what I really want is flame maple with black dots and ebony stripe/plug. I will try and ask for that when I place my order - if they won't do it then I guess I'll have walnut - but that's not what I want, which kind of defeats the purpose of ordering a custom neck.

 

[jackthehack]

You could always carefully mask off the walnut skunk stripe and dye it black prior to finishing the maple neck.

 

[clearerphish]

You could always carefully mask off the walnut skunk stripe and dye it black prior to finishing the maple neck.

I don't finish items, they arrive at my door finished.

 

[line6man]

I always thought that (both logically and cosmetically) it would be best for the skunk stripe to match the fingerboard.

How come this idea has never caught on?

 

[clearerphish]

Apparently, and I get this basic idea from the email, when they do this it is because they have a little extra fretboard material and feel like doing a "one off". I say - why can't surplus fretboard material be saved to turn into plugs and stripes? W does tons of fretboards, seems like this is an easy way to take scrap and turn it into an extra 45 bucks per neck. Am I oversimplifying here?

 

[RexTheDog]

Apparently, and I get this basic idea from the email, when they do this it is because they have a little extra fretboard material and feel like doing a "one off". I say - why can't surplus fretboard material be saved to turn into plugs and stripes? W does tons of fretboards, seems like this is an easy way to take scrap and turn it into an extra 45 bucks per neck. Am I oversimplifying here?

Its an interesting idea that i am all for, but something has just occured to me.  I dont know this for a fact but i suspect they use walnut as the skunk stripe because it is cheap and plentiful, and to have pau ferro and kingswood as an extra option for $45 makes sense to me because as far as i know they are the two most popular fretboard woods, so i imagine they would have plenty of scraps to use for skunk stripes.

Now imagine if they offered say bloodwood as a skunk stripe.  Its a great choice of fretboard but far from a common choice, so say they start offering it for skunk stripes and they get 30 orders for necks with bloodwood skunkstripes but only the scraps from 2 or 3 bloodwood fretboards to do this?  Just a theory but i think its possible they just arnt set up at this point to deal with this problem.

 

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

I've seen darker neck woods with contrasting maple skunk stripes.  It's anyone's guess why maple necks have dark wood stripes, my guess would be to show off the design element, to show that there's a joint there.  Another theory would be that Leo's were that way.  The more I read about Leo, thriftiness had as much to do with the design of things as anything else.  The Tele headstock is the way it is so he could make two necks out of one maple blank, whereas the Strat could only yield one.  If he made the neck out of pre-cut maple blanks, he wouldn't cut up the same blank to make stripes if he bought surplus scrap would from somewhere else to make stripes with.  Just a theory, but why is it still done?  Tradition.

 

[Mor Paul]

The Tele headstock is the way it is so he could make two necks out of one maple blank, whereas the Strat could only yield one.

But... the tele came before the strat  :icon_scratch:

 

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

But... the tele came before the strat  :icon_scratch:

Everyone knows that Max, I'm not following you. 

 

[Mor Paul]

Why would leo go to a more wasteful design?

 

[Kostas]

In 2007 I asked for canary skunk stripe / truss plug on my rosewood neck and they said they could do it. I didn't pay extra.
Now they charge for certain woods?

 

[RexTheDog]

In 2007 I asked for canary skunk stripe / truss plug on my rosewood neck and they said they could do it. I didn't pay extra.
Now they charge for certain woods?

If they can i see no reason why not.  Policies change.  I can only imagine the increased revenue from it would go into developing more of the options that we ask for here.  For that im grateful.

Edit: I think its also plausible that the ever increasing price of exotic woods will have played a part in the decision to charge for exotic wood skunk stripes.

 

[clearerphish]

I want a wenge neck w/ebony fretboard, abalone dots, and a canary or goncalo stripe/plug now.