Roasted Maple Necks?

[MegaSwing]

I'm in love...again!

 

[iriegnome]

I just wonder if you can get them with fries or if a salad is an option???

 

[Tupac]

Does anyone know how bright these sound tonally? I want to know if they're as bright as normal maple or not.


And yes, 1 year bump. Come at me bro!

 

[bdgotoh]

I had a Stingray HH4 with roasted neck and couldn't tell any significant tonal difference between it and my other HH4 Stingray with regular maple neck and rosewood fingerboard.

Mine was a roasted birdseye maple neck with a matching roasted birdseye maple fingerboard.

Very nice bass, but it didn't sound any different to me.

 

[finfrocka]

Does anyone know how bright these sound tonally? I want to know if they're as bright as normal maple or not.


And yes, 1 year bump. Come at me bro!

Tupac, you aware bro?

 

[bassbenj]

I had a Stingray HH4 with roasted neck and couldn't tell any significant tonal difference between it and my other HH4 Stingray with regular maple neck and rosewood fingerboard.

Mine was a roasted birdseye maple neck with a matching roasted birdseye maple fingerboard.

Very nice bass, but it didn't sound any different to me.

I don't see why it would. As I understand it, the wood is just heated until the sugars in the maple caramelize! It's sort of a variation on "colonial maple". Same Idea only darkening done by aging. I've got a colonial maple drumset I built. (raw shells were sitting out on a shelf in music store for years and years and turned dark.) A couple of the drums had to be made from new white maple shells. Those were stained to match. There was exactly ZERO difference in the tone of the wood between the aged and non-aged maple. I presume same goes for the toasted necks so long as you don't give it a good charing.

 

[Bassist Jay]

I would need to put my BFR Roasted Neck Bongo 4H against a regular Bongo 4H before I could say for sure.

 

[Fuzzbass]

IMHO the EBMM ad contains way too much marketing fluff: specifically, unverifiable claims about resonance, etc. This is from the Sadowsky site, and seems far more reasonable to me:

Sadowsky Guitars has always taken pride in the quality and stability of our neck wood. We are now pleased to offer "roasted maple" necks for an unprecedented level of stability. Lumber for maple necks and fingerboards is placed in a special oven after normal kiln dying. The wood is roasted at temperatures ranging from 180º to 220º Celsius. The result of this treatment is wood that is significantly more resistant to absorbing or releasing moisture. With this increased stability, the "roasted maple" process enables us to offer figured maple neck blanks for the first time in our three decades of instrument making. We have always advocated that figured neck stock was too unstable to use. However, any piece of wood than has a stability problem will warp during the roasting process and be discarded. It would also be a recommended option for players who reside in areas of extreme humidity (low or high), or who travel a lot through variable climates, as well as players who desire a figured maple neck for aesthetic reasons.

NOTE: The roasting process is performed on lumber. It cannot be applied retroactively to finished necks.​

 

[Duckwater]

They look great, but I don't see the benefit of having more fundamental.

 

[Fuzzbass]

They look great, but I don't see the benefit of having more fundamental.

IMO the claims about "resonance" and "fundamental" are nothing more than marketing nonsense.

 

[PastorofMuppets]

Any one have one for a picture?

 

[georgestrings]

Any one have one for a picture?

Here's a couple of mine:

 

[dave zilla]

I'm surprised companies haven't used this method before in bodies for purely aesthetics instead of stain.

 

[Basso54]

It looks good. Most definitely great from an aesthetics standpoint. Make a tonal difference? Guess I'll have to run one down at GC if I can and try it.

 

[georgestrings]

Make a tonal difference?

Honestly??? - not any I've noticed, although it sure does look pretty... I bought mine because I got a smokin' deal on a BFR 5 string HH that also had an ebony fretboard - they're not very common, AFAIK... I haven't regretted the purchase any - it plays and sounds great, and has gotten alot of compliments...


- georgestrings

 

[BassHappy]

Some of you good folks may have gotten the same email blast I got today.

Looks like Warmoth is now doing ROASTED MAPLE necks....

I am intrigued as I only play necks that are satin and LOVE the wenge neck on my Drake which has no finish at all.

So far, I am only seeing guitar necks, but I bet bass necks are on the way....

Comment if you see fit....

BassHappy

 

[west al]

When I played a Gibson SG Std. with a baked maple board, it sounded pretty good. The Maple gave it a bit of a brighter sound with the Humbuckings.

 

[Bassmunnky]

Got one on my Bongo 6 with stainless steel frets-

Humid summer and bone dry winter.
Out of case.

This neck is stable!

 

[Turnaround]

Roasting is not recent, unless you consider a couple of centuries to be recent. There are other practices too that stabilized wood and produced spectacular results. Like burying the wood in manure. Or in sand at the seashore. Or soaking it with urine. Sinking it to the bottom of a river. Some of the treatments are unsavoury today. Most are too costly.

 

[dkelley]

I can only imagine what process was done on my violin then. ..... made in 1686 in Cremona Italy