StewMac Torrefied Maple Bass Neck Blanks, Plain

Description

Torrefied wood is becoming very popular with guitar builders, because of its stability, tone and its vintage golden color
Planed, unprofiled torrefied maple neck blank for bolt-on neck construction - ready for bandsawing and shaping in your shop
Flatsawn
Plain unfigured grain
Measures 15/16" x 4-1/2" x 35" (23.81mm x 114.30mm x 889mm)
At last, figured maple stock with the stability needed for long-scale bass necks! Great for tone, and vintage golden color, too.
Our
StewMac Bass Guitar Neck Blank
is a planed, unprofiled torrefied maple neck blank for bolt-on neck construction.
Ready for bandsawing and shaping in your shop
Includes sufficient wood for adding "ears" to the headstock
Flatsawn
Dimensions: 15/16" x 4-1/2" x 35" (23.81mm x 114.30mm x 889mm)
Plain unfigured grain
Torrefaction: the advantages of vintage wood
One of the great things about a really old instrument is the way the wood has aged over decades. It becomes a little drier and denser, and much more dimensionally stable. And aging darkens the color beautifully. When they can get it, builders love to use wood salvaged from very old buildings, for example.
The qualities of these rare aged woods are successfully recreated by heating wood in a low-oxygen environment using a kiln—a difficult process called Torrefaction. This torrefied wood has the color, dimensional stability and other advantages of those long-aged woods that are so hard to come by.