Neck Photo Album - Design Ideas

Seven Piece Multi Wood Necks

Combined with exotics, these can be striking examples of multi wood necks.
Shown are two Mahogany necks with 1/4" Cocobolo center stripes flanked with 1/16" Maple followed by 3/16" ebony borders.
 

 

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Magnificent Maples:
 
 Here are several examples of primary multi woods in Tiger Maple:
 Top left: 1/4" ebony center stripe; 3 piece neck.
Bottom Left:  two piece maple.
Right:  Five piece 1/4" Bloodwood center flanked with DD Black Brazilian Tulipwood.

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Five Piece Multi Wood Necks.

Top to bottom, here are four classical slot head necks:

Spanish Cedar with 1/4" Bloodwood center stripe flanked with DD Brazilian Tulipwood.

Tasmanian Blackwood with 1/4" Ebony center  flanked with 1/16" maple.

Tasmanian Blackwood with 1/4" Bloodwood center flanked with DD Brazilian Tulipwood.

Tasmanian Blackwood with 1/4" Ebony center flanked with 1/42" padouk.

 

 

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Top to bottom:
 
Single Piece Mahogany with Smile volutes and Gibson type heels:
Five Piece Mahogany; Black Walnut  center flanked with 1/16" maple.
Five Piece Mahogany; Cocobolo center flanked with DD Black Brazilian Tulipwood.
Five Piece Mahogany; Tiger Maple Center flanked with DD Black.
12 String Neck;  Cocobolo center flankwed with DD Black Brazilian Tulipwood.

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Scarfed Heel Necks

Come in various wood combinations, the heel usually melded with a center stripe for strength.

Seen here are Rosewood and ebony scarfed heels.

The rosewood version has a matching wine glass backside veneer treatment and twin tiger maple flanking pins with mahogany as primary wood. 

 

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Tiger Maple Neck with ebony scarfed heel and center stripes.

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Smile Volutes with Back side veneering

Smile volutes can remain un-veneered, but  can be enhanced with the treatment shown.
 
These necks are mahogany with Mango and Cocobolo centers flanked with tiger maple.
The veneers match the center stripes in each case.

 

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More Smiles with Backside veneers on Cut Away necks
 
 Top to Bottom:
7 Piece Mahogany neck with 1.8" rosewood center stripe flanked with 1/8" tiger maple and 1/42" ebony; rosewood backside veneer.
Same, but  1/8" ebony center stripe and Macassar ebony veneer.
Third is same as top neck.
Fourth neck also has ebony center and with African Blackwood veneer.

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Slot Head Necks with Wine Glass back side veneers.

These necks have also had their regular top veneers placed.

 

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Colleted Diamond Volute Examples
 
Mahogany with Bloodwood center stripe flanked with ebony.

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Classical  Slot Head Neck  in the Baroque Manner.

Rosewood lines are tilted 8 degrees in this style convergent towards the heel cap and head plate crown.  This makes a striking neck with the stability of a Honduras mahogany core and full length sound transmission quality of rosewood.

 

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Another example, this time with fancy koa center stripe flanked with maple pin and of course, fancy koa veneer.

 

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Arch Top Necks
 
Arch top guitars require different treatments for their necks.  The main feature difference is
that a finger board extension remains visible above the sound board.

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Occasional Odd Ones:

The neck with no barrel is for a 1923 Wiessenborn Lap Steel Guitar.
 
The other end of the spectrum is this electric guitar neck; full body extension.

 

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More Mixed Designs:
 
Very extreme tiger maple necks and various mahogany primary necks shown here.

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The Extra Long and the Extra Short are No Problem:

 
These baritone necks, of single piece mahogany, sit in contrast to regular six string steel necks.
 

 

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Ukulele Necks
 
These flea sized necks carry many of the same features as their larger cousins.
 

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Alternate Primary Neck Woods:  Walnut

 
Walnut is also a tone wood and is generally unrecognized as such.  It also makes for some striking necks.

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Another Alternate Neck Wood is Hawaiian Koa.

 

Neck to far right is Koa.  

Other neck primary woods not shown have included Pernambuco, Cherry and Tasmanian Blackwood.

 

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