Fake Looking Flame / Roasted Maple Necks

[Zooberwerx]

How's that taste?

Better than any wiener cooked on a Presto hot dog cooker...."roll on two".

Riis

 

[blastoff]

some things might be harder to fake well than just doing the thing. i wish that was true with tortoise shell pick guards. i ordered one once and i found out they print them out! looked fine in the picture but awful in person. im still traumatized.

 

[micguy]

I love the flame in this piece of quarter sawn white oak.
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That's actually ray fleck, which is a different thing, but it is similarly cool. Oak that is quarter sawn will show that. I've seen old pianos that were literally covered with quarter sawn oak veneer - the whole piano was ray fleck city.

To the original point of the thread, if you roast a flamed maple neck, the flame will definitely look more intense. Roasting a neck (done properly) helps relieve stresses in a piece of wood (it makes it more stable). Doing that to a flamed piece of maple (figured woods contain stresses that can make them warp) that you want to use for a neck is actually a very practical idea.

 

[micguy]

How's that taste?

Haven't licked any, but roasted woods (I've used roasted maple, ash, and alder) all smell wonderful.

 

[SharpCat]

Haven't licked any, but roasted woods (I've used roasted maple, ash, and alder) all smell wonderful.

A Chinese roasted maple neck I have smelled like maple syrup for several months after I received it.

 

[Jeff Scott]

That's actually ray fleck, which is a different thing, but it is similarly cool. Oak that is quarter sawn will show that. I've seen old pianos that were literally covered with quarter sawn oak veneer - the whole piano was ray fleck city.

To the original point of the thread, if you roast a flamed maple neck, the flame will definitely look more intense. Roasting a neck (done properly) helps relieve stresses in a piece of wood (it makes it more stable). Doing that to a flamed piece of maple (figured woods contain stresses that can make them warp) that you want to use for a neck is actually a very practical idea.

I know wat ray fleck is, we have it all over the place in our house, on trim and furniture. I am referring the the vertical strip to the right of the 4004L SPC in the wainscot below the light switch. That's different from the ray flecking, looks very flamey to me.

 

[DJ Bebop]

Flame maple is NOT uncommon!
I see flames in boards at Home Depot ALL THE TIME.

“Roasting” is a QUESTIONABLE process from these vendors.

I HIGHLY doubt that they need to go through the process to fake readily available maple with flamed figuring, especially for necks being sold unfinished , which the example shown is. I used some 1x2” I got at HD to edge my workbench!

Freestone from eBay has flamed necks frequently.
Here’s 2 I’ve had, and another from a Chinese vendor a few years ago. I GUARANTEE that there are Not fake, I received “the raw “ and were sanded and reshaped. The Chatoyance of real wood can’t be faked either.

Yep, I've had a few SX basses come through with nice unintentional flamed necks. That wasn't a selling feature or even mentioned.

 

[H K]

some things might be harder to fake well than just doing the thing. i wish that was true with tortoise shell pick guards. i ordered one once and i found out they print them out! looked fine in the picture but awful in person. im still traumatized.

You'd rather they kill like 5 turtles per pickguard?;p

 

[Jim C]

Was all of this started by The Hamburglar some years ago?

 

[blastoff]

You'd rather they kill like 5 turtles per pickguard?;p

haha good point. i meant REAL FAKE tortoise shell. celluloid acetates aren't endangered are they? i guess it is pretty toxic stuff to work with.

 

[H K]

haha good point. i meant REAL FAKE tortoise shell. celluloid acetates aren't endangered are they? i guess it is pretty toxic stuff to work with.

Hehe, I think theres still a few living individuals of the Celluloidus Acetatus genus, deep in the jungles of Borneo.

 

[vvvmmm]

we'd have to ask James McMurtry becuase this guy is deceased (RIP):