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I am looking for ideas for neck woods need some ideas. I would like to use a 5 wood laminated type neck (ie Olson). I know many on OLF use a similar type consruction method. Any sizes, wood types, or pictures would be very helpful.

For the rest of the guitar I am planning on using EIR with a Sitka top.

Thanks!

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Brad
Avon, OH

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This is John Watkins new place. He's a regular on the forum. If you're not drooling after looking at some of those necks, something's wrong with ya. ;-)

Even if you want to do the lamination/carve by yourself, this will give you some pretty good ideas.

Bill

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Here are my latest - mahogany/maple/walnut and mahogany/maple/bloodwood.   

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Here's my latest, Mahog, maple, purple heart, maple, mahog...





Serge

3 pieces mahogany, 2 pieces EIR

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This neck is curly mahogany with a cocobolo center strip. It's actually five
"pieces"; there's a fine lacewood veneer on either side of the cocobolo, but
it's not very visible in the unfinished neck. 'm on a curly mahogany kick for
necks these days. Too bad the stuff's so expensive, though...

crazytooguy38977.6325462963

Looks good. Thanks for all the ideas!

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Brad
Avon, OH

I got a couple of necks, like many other Forum members, from John Watkins. The craftsmanship is suberb. Until I venture into carving my own necks, John's necks are the way to go for me.

Here are a couple that John made for me. I wanted one to resemble an Olson neck...& the other, was the 2nd 1/2 of a neck that John had in his shop, leftover from a neck he had made for one of his guitars. It's Mahogany w/ Padauk & black fiber lams...


A better representation of the Padauk one in a finished state, is this pic, taken from John's site:

Rich...very nice. I like the last picture. What is the black fiber you refer too?

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Avon, OH

Brad..Each piece of the wood strips, including the little middle Maple strip, are bordered by a thin piece of black fiber. Although hard to see in the previous photos...they are there, making a total of 9 laminations. I really lucked out getting it from John. I had seen it on his site, and out of curiosity, I asked him, what would something like that cost. He said that he just happened to have the other 1/2, So, I got it!