Is this a quartersawn neck?

[Mike Vee]

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Sure the wood experts will jump in here soon, but I looked into this a while back when I found a similar quarter sawn that shouldn't be... Basically quarter cuts so that the grain runs front to back, but plain sawn just cuts to get the most out of the tree... and when you do that a few lucky people in each batch get something that's effectively quarter sawn by accident... unless someone goes through and deliberately removes the QS by accident necks (and puts an extra $100 sticker on them)

makes sense!

 

[lm183902]

Thanks! It doesn't even have dings though. Just hairline cracks in the nitro. Can barely even see it:

Oh that's nothing! If anything, it's a free mini-relic!

 

[Mike Vee]

Oh that's nothing! If anything, it's a free mini-relic!

Literally nothing.

 

[MultiScaleMale]

It's usually easy to tell by looking at the top edge of the headstock and then you can tell the grain orientation looking down the neck.

 

[GR7G5TER]

Even Squier will sometimes have them. It's not part of the spec, but it happens randomly. Just like sometimes you get flame and birdseye.

My 2019 MIA Performer has some lovely light flaming on the neck.

That's a beautiful bass

 

[facetsquared]

Very, very nice. The American Vintage II series is great but I cannot abide the Fanta-tinted necks. I ended up going the CS route for a Sunburst P without the heavy tint. It’s great to see an AV II without the dayglo treatment.

 

[GR7G5TER]

Sunburst/tort is my favorite combo. A P bass with this combo is like the dictionary definition of electric bass.

Absolutely!

 

[HelpImaRock]

Actually, it's a buck-n-a-quarter quartersawn neck, but I'm not telling him that.

 

[Mike Vee]

Very, very nice. The American Vintage II series is great but I cannot abide the Fanta-tinted necks. I ended up going the CS route for a Sunburst P without the heavy tint. It's great to see an AV II without the dayglo treatment.

Yep, to be honest I kept looking back to the AO strictly because of that tint color on the AVII. The Vintera II is the same way, but sometimes they aren't. Can't figure out why but it seems I got all the goodies here!

 

[Gilmourisgod]

Nice to see the dark rosewood boards again (while it lasts), the Pau Ferro ones look cheap and dried up, nothing like a classic Fender. One of my Bucket Basses is a 70's bound and blocked Jazz, sunburst with a rosewood board, and tort. Near as I can remember that was the first bass I ever picked up, a 72' Jazz a buddy had. Quality was hit or miss in those days, his was a Honey.

 

[Ostie]

Thanks! It doesn't even have dings though. Just hairline cracks in the nitro. Can barely even see it:

Those are character cracks. No extra charge.

 

[Mike Vee]

Nice to see the dark rosewood boards again (while it lasts), the Pau Ferro ones look cheap and dried up, nothing like a classic Fender. One of my Bucket Basses is a 70's bound and blocked Jazz, sunburst with a rosewood board, and tort. Near as I can remember that was the first bass I ever picked up, a 72' Jazz a buddy had. Quality was hit or miss in those days, his was a Honey.

Only the Vintera and Player series got designated PF for a while. Everything US and Japan stayed rosewood. But yea, glad to see ti back. I very much dislike PF.

 

[InstantEctobass]

To be honest, it doesn't look like a full blown quarter-sawn neck and aside the look of the grain that's nice (subjectively) these neck aren't BETTER. Had issues with them being too stiff in some parts and having reverse ski jump (yes, reverse).

As long as you enjoy the instrument.

 

[Deleted member 271037]

Give us a pic of the end of the heel.

It should look like the one on the right

Or simply the end of the headstock, which doesn't need the neck to be loosened from the body.

 

[Deleted member 271037]

To be honest, it doesn't look like a full blown quarter-sawn neck and aside the look of the grain that's nice (subjectively) these neck aren't BETTER. Had issues with them being too stiff in some parts and having reverse ski jump (yes, reverse).

As long as you enjoy the instrument.

That might very well be the case. Necks that are quartersawn "by accident" rather than sold specifically as quartersawn are often close to quartersawn rather than truly quartersawn. But not always. A pic of the end of the headstock will tell us more.

 

[Mike Vee]

That might very well be the case. Necks that are quartersawn "by accident" rather than sold specifically as quartersawn are often close to quartersawn rather than truly quartersawn. But not always. A pic of the end of the headstock will tell us more.

We’ll have the evidence early next week

 

[Ricky Rioli]

It's usually easy to tell by looking at the top edge of the headstock and then you can tell the grain orientation looking down the neck.

Eg

I paid extra for both of these (one seems a bit more worthy of the $$$ than the other)

 

[Gilmourisgod]

Quartersawn does tend to move less perpendicular to the grain, it's used a lot for flooring for that reason, so in theory it should expand/contract less across the width of the board. Trying to predict what any single piece of entirely unique wood will do is pretty difficult though. If it plays good, you won the Wood Lottery.

 

[ClassicJazz]

I didn't know Fender used quarter sawn necks on production instruments. On custom shop stuff yes. Quarter sawn is generally allot more expensive. My Fodera Emperor Standard has a one piece bolt on quarter sawn neck. Just a quick look at it and there is no doubt. But they are no longer making single piece quarter sawn necks, now they are three piece. Fodera said it was getting harder to find quality quarter sawn wood blanks wide enough to make a single piece neck.

 

[mcnach]

Just wondering.

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it would be good if you actually showed us the neck