Kyle Jordan
Ace of Knaves
For those of you who own or have owned a guitar with a roasted/torrified maple neck and preferably fretboard as well, what is and or was your experience with it? Did you see any type of increased overall stability or climate resistance compared to a non-roasted neck?
I'm looking more seriously at ordering a Tom Anderson right now and they offer both the more heavily roasted Chocolate Maple option and the more now industry standard Caramelized Maple variant. I remember that they actually used to offer the Chocolate Maple necks unfinished (not sure if they still do) because of the increased stability and resistance observed in their testing. The Caramelized had to be finished due to still having slightly less stability and resistance compared to Chocolate but still performing better than (vanilla?) regular maple.
Just want to hear from owners or techs with decently long term firsthand experience in the matter. I remember reading somewhere here on the forum about either a Charvel or Ibanez AZ that still had significant fret sprout on it's roasted board/neck. If this only slightly improves over regular maple in that regard, I'd rather stick with plain maple simply for aesthetics.
I'm looking more seriously at ordering a Tom Anderson right now and they offer both the more heavily roasted Chocolate Maple option and the more now industry standard Caramelized Maple variant. I remember that they actually used to offer the Chocolate Maple necks unfinished (not sure if they still do) because of the increased stability and resistance observed in their testing. The Caramelized had to be finished due to still having slightly less stability and resistance compared to Chocolate but still performing better than (vanilla?) regular maple.
Just want to hear from owners or techs with decently long term firsthand experience in the matter. I remember reading somewhere here on the forum about either a Charvel or Ibanez AZ that still had significant fret sprout on it's roasted board/neck. If this only slightly improves over regular maple in that regard, I'd rather stick with plain maple simply for aesthetics.