Depends who you ask.![]()
Um??
Anyway some builders like KXK and Soloway and Carvin all reinforce the necks with graphite to make it more stable.
Here's a pic of a Soloway neck showing the graphite robs installed.
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Thanx. Now I see. So it's just an additional strengthening option, not a substitution to a normal truss rod. But why would't a neck without it be stable enough. It seems to me Ibanez and most other brands' necks do not have this rods and stay stright for decades. Moreover strat necks are known to be thicker than wisards, for instance.