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ebony stripe down the back of the neck what is the purpose?
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Armando
Posts: 302
Joined: May 27 2005
From: Zürich, Switzerland
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RE: ebony stripe down the back of th... (in reply to Güiro)
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Hy Güiro I agree with Jeff and John. An ebony stripe as a neck reinforcement is not beneficial to the sound of the guitar, nor is it helping the neck to become any stiffer. Ebony is heavy, has high damping properties and it is quite unstable. Actually we already have an ebony reinforcement by glueing an ebony fretboard on the neck, so there is no need for additional ebony. Too much ebony will make the neck too heavy and this might result in a top-heavy and badly balanced guitar. This is valid especially on blancas, where the cypress body is usually of little weight. A well cut and well dried piece of honduran cedar is still the best material for a guitar neck and it does not require neck reinforcement. Honduran cedar is stiff enough and it usually doesn't warp unless it is not well dried. Many antique luthiers such as Santos Hernandez, Marcelo Barbero or Modesto Borreguero as well as contemporary makers Reyes, Barba do not use neck reinforcements. Ebony is heavy and very unstable, so there is more disadvantage than advantage to it's use on a neck. If a neckreinforcement is used, it should be a stiff and stable material of little weight. Some contemporary luthiers use graphite reinforcements. This material might be good from a technical point of view but i personally don't like to have any artifical components on my guitar. So if i do a neck reinforcement, i use a stripe of hickory and i make it hidden. I don't really like to have the reinforcement visible on a flamenco guitar neck. regards Armando
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Date Mar. 9 2011 20:08:34
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Flamingrae
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Joined: May 19 2009
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RE: ebony stripe down the back of th... (in reply to Anders Eliasson)
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Ok, for what it's worth.......... I think if you have properly seasoned, stable wood, there is no reason to put this in. But.... The instruments I tend to build have a bit of decoration and I'm always looking at ways to exploit this, consequently........ I've just built four necks all with reinforced rosewood strips (solid). This was so I could inlay some other binding down this centre strip and also to try a different way of constructing the neck. Method used was to flip one side of the neck upside down. This I am led to believe would compensate for any warping in badly seasoned or wood that was likely to move. Most of what I'm using has been well seasoned so I'm going through the motions of what is for me, a new neck construction. More effort, more visually attractive (I think), no real impact on sound. Theoretically laminates should be stronger than one piece, but are you going to drive a bus over it? Who knows, at some stage I might go back to no strip, but for now this is where I'm at. Cheers people,
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Date Mar. 14 2011 14:06:21
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