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Show your laminated necks and bodies

Neck that i'm building for a TB'er:

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Guitar neck I'm building:

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DP custom 6'er:

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My 5 string headless 1 pic of the neck, the other is the body wing sandwich

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3 piece maple neck on my demo guitar:

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The 5 string EUB

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Neck for my Demo bass:

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Sandwiched Alembic cloner(or their attempt at one) from 1978.
My real Alembic didn't weigh in at 3 tons like this thing does.
All of the hardware is brass(not cleaned yet), on board 3 freq. active tone, 9 volt.
Greco GOB 1200

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Recent Epi adder although frets may be the downfall(rapid wear from what I'm reading)
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At this point I think I only like laminated necks. And laminated bodies are sexy.

Are laminated necks really stiffer or is that a myth?

Having at the least 3 pieces, with slightly different direction grain orientations can indeed make it more rigid as opposed to 1 single grain direction.