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Originally posted by Shawn Lutz
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I thought it was there to keep the neck from warping. I've seen classical and flamenco guitars with bubinga and other wood reinforcing strips and they rarely have truss rods. Also, why route a neck the whole way through for a strip of wood if it has a separate fret board? Just route under where the board is going and install the truss rod. Two and three piece necks are designed to resist warping and even slight shifts over time. My LP custom had the lowest action I've ever had on any guitar and didn't budge even a thousandth of an inch in over a decade. Like I said before taking a single piece of maple and installing frets directly on it seems pretty cheap to me and if it affected the tone or added to the mystique of the Stratocaster I think I would've heard people singing its praises by now... -
Well, a skunk stripe is different than a laminated neck. A laminated (or multi-piece) neck is a neck that is made up of several pieces of wood to form the main part of the neck, usually glued with the grain running in opposite directions. You see this on Hamers, 70's Gibsons, lots of basses and custom guitars. Basically, the grain in the different pieces of wood pull in opposite directions and this tends to help the neck stay straight. Using different colored woods, such as bubinga in some guitar neck serves this purpose as well as looking good, but the same structural affect can be achieved with similar wood as well.Originally posted by Trussrod View Post
Now, as far as why you would build a neck with a seperate fingerboard AND a skunk stripe - that goes back to when Fender first built rosewood boarded necks - they basically built a maple neck, then shaved down the front and applied a rosewood board to it. Thus, skunk stripe and seperate fingerboard.
Why still do it? Tradition. The skunk stripe has little, if any, structural impact other than filling the hole.-------------------------
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