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B2D said:
Lollers. I remember you had a neat Albert Lee model a while back.

The 1 5/8ths nut and slim necks are precisely what got me into Music Man. I have small carnie-like hands that smell of cabbage, so those necks are much easier to get around on for me. ;)
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Yeah, and since then I've rescinded my comment about the "munchkin hand" thing. For the record, getting used to the EBMM nut width has opened me up to a world of really excellent instruments.

I won't be selling any of my Gibson or Fender guitars any time soon, but my Silhouette and Steve Morse guitars are my two faves right now and see more playing time than the rest combined.
 
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I thought the EBMM nut with was the same as a vintage Fender?
 
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sosomething said:
You'd be right about that, actually.
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I know I looked it up and compaired it with my guitar but sometimes people don't put the right inch to metric conversion on the website so I wasn't sure. I can't deal with inches.
 
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DivebombInc said:
I make necks and I can't imagine a neck not warping if it were baked after carving it up.
I have a neck here with no home so I'm preheating my oven right now. I'm going to start at 7:45 AM and roast it for 4.5 hours at 400. I'll post the results at 12:15.
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I'd love to have a neck like that for my strat. That's all it's missing is a great flame maple neck.
 
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John_L said:
Hmm some Music Man are smaller than a vintage Fender then.
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No, IIRC all pre-1962 Fender nut widths were 1-5/8".

I'm not an expert on vintage Fenders, but I think from '62 to '69, 1-5/8" was still their "normal" width on the "B" stamped necks.

So the correct statement would be that some vintage Fenders are wider than the standard Music Man nut width, but most of them were not.
 
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Roasted Maple sounds good , but I really liked Fried Alder with Mashed Potatoes and gravy a little better.
 
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robertkoa said:
Roasted Maple sounds good , but I really liked Fried Alder with Mashed Potatoes and gravy a little better.
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Stumbled upon this old thread and figured I would bring it back to life after two years. I wound up buying two guitars from this run an AL HH and Gold Roller. I always wanted a Roller but the all gold look was not for me as I felt like I would need one of those old Elvis jumpsuits from the early 70's to strap one on lol. So when it was offered in that Black Sugar finish I was all over it! I am going to keep things real and say that besides those being two guitars I really wanted what sold me on the Roasted Maple necks at first was purely cosmetic as I loved the way they looked. It was not until after my order that John Suhr(true genius in his field and as cool a guy as you will find) explained the whole science behind the process to me and how the moisture is drawn out of the wood and it becomes roughly 30% lighter, stronger, and how it has an effect on the tone of the wood.First off all companies and builders purchase the roasted wood from an outside source as no one does this in house. The longer the wood is processed the darker and more brittle it can become which is why Suhr only offered a very short warranty on the Vulcanized necks (which they discontinued) and now uses that medium roast that looks so cool with a lifetime warranty and no this cannot be done in your home oven lmfoa. Well my two EBMM guitars were simply smoking (no pun intended) and the necks play-sound- and look incredible as well as both feeling light as a feather cranking out a ton of tone. They also had a very light clear finish on them which I like and their is no doubt about the process having an effect on the tone of the guitar, as my other two AL HH's which sound pretty much identical sound very different. The Roller was off the chart and when it came in I had a crowd of about 10 guys around me when I plugged it in all wanting to know what it was and throwing out remarks like "That is a 1 in a 1,000 ax" and "You want to sell it" which is a great feeling when it is your guitar they are talking about. I am finishing the specs on a Suhr and it is definitely going to have a roasted neck as I am more then convinced! So has anyone else purchased a Roasted neck from someone and what were your thoughts?
 
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So two and a half years on, is it safe to say this revolution in neck construction was a fad?

Dont think I have seen a roasted neck from any manufacturer on a shelf in this time period, mm or otherwise.
 
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FWIW, you can get any maple neck from Musikraft roasted now.
 
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I decided I don't like that roasting thing. Annoying waste of perfectly fine birdseye maple :mad:
 
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I have (and prefer) roasted maple, and would like to see it as a more common option. However, I think it tends to be more of a "higher end" model option.
 
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JeffB said:
So two and a half years on, is it safe to say this revolution in neck construction was a fad?

Dont think I have seen a roasted neck from any manufacturer on a shelf in this time period, mm or otherwise.
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I`d say not entirely. While the appeal does seem to have worn off some, things like Gibson`s "Baked Maple" fretboards are still around, and IIRC EB/MM roasty /caramelizes all of theiir necks now (But I may be wrong on that one).
 
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Nah not all of them; I think it's an option even for the BFR models.
 
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