Guitar Neck (best opinions of wood choice please)

[dudesta559]

I am going to have a guitar built for me, but need opinions for the best wood to choose for the neck. I have the following 3 choices to choose from.

Birdseye flat sawn

Birdseye Quarter Sawn

Curly Maple.

What are the benefits, pros, cons, what should i be looking for to make my decision? I am not an expert on creating guitars, and the best wood for it so i would like some opinions from some more experienced ones please.

I have been looking through various online links for answers but i am getting some contradicting answers.
For example, im told that Quarter Sawn is best as far as tone and durability and it is least likely to warp.
but then i look at different websites that are selling quarter sawn vs flat sawn and some times the quartersawn is cheaper then flat. How can that be if its suppose to be better? doesnt make logical sense to me.


My question is if its an electric guitar, how does the type of wood effect the tone if they use pickups?

Also i live in california in place where its hot in summer and cold in winter, pretty average place, do i really have to worry about the guitar warping? i play with friends and small gigs now and again but i dont leave my guitar in the sun. its usually on a guitar rack in my music room. never left in a car or outside or near a window.

advice please?

 

[uOpt]

Re: Guitar Neck (best opinions of wood choice please)

Well some say that all the figured maple damages stability, as in deformations under environmental change.

Quartersawn I would be careful about. It's stiffer and it'll sound different, and feel different. At the very least try a Eric Johnson Strat or something in a shop.

The truth is that most people, whether they know it or not, want a proper Stratocaster to be considerably "floppy" and that is lost with quartersawn.

Or you might like it better. There is no such thing as "best" for tone.

The one tone thing I'll say is to stay away from fat and heavy truss rods.