Charvel imports 1986-1991

[dg]

Supposedly more stable & less likely to twist or warp, as well. Most of the time, flatsawn necks will be clear-coated for protection. This comes into play with oiled birdseye necks, since birdseye figure only shows up in flatsawn wood. Some say the figuring itself can also play a factor, but I'm a little skeptical about that. Flame figure shows up in quartersawn wood, btw, so if you really want figuring in an oiled neck, flame may be your best bet.

-edit- Henrik, pretty sure the catalogs have you covered & say the necks are quartersawn on the Pros, iirc. So step away from the sandpaper...

[nhspike]

Henrik, I always appreciate your opinions and thoughts... let me just say thanks! I've learned much, and appreciate it... always very interesting.

So here's a question that might stimulate some conversation:

If the grain goes parallel with the fret board, would it be more likely to warp (given changes in humidity, or whatever) in such a way that the truss rod could compensate for it, whereas if the grain is more perpendicular to the fret board might it have less of a tendency to warp in that direction?

[shreder13]

"It takes a special kind of geek to care about something like that. You're lucky I love you...":ROTF::ROTF:

:ROTF::ROTF::ROTF::ROTF::ROTF::ROTF::ROTF::ROTF:th ought I'd add that

[jackson1]

Yes, I've heard some people talk about warp problems on heavily birdseye figured necks, but can't really confirm it either. Could it be that I even saw it mentioned on the Warmoth site...? hmmm... Nice info there, dg. Your comment about Soloists having flatsawn necks worries me. The USA Soloists?

[jackson1]

I'm going to bed. I'll be back

[dg]

Your comment about Soloists having flatsawn necks worries me. The USA Soloists?

I worded that post badly. I'm going to change it to say the Model Series neckthroughs differ from the USA Soloists since they had flatsawn necks and the USAs were quartersawn.

[RobRR]

http://cgi.ebay.com/80s-CHARVEL-JACK...QQcmdZViewItem

Check out the 5th pic of the back... you can see the center neck blank looks quarter sawn where the wings arent. Not 100% sure though.. Ive got a M6 Ill most likley be stripping, guess well find out then eh?

[straycat]

I'm looking at the heel of an 86 USA oiled neck and the grain runs horizontal on the neck and vertical on the rosewood board.The same for an 87 model 2 neck but it is clear coated.The only visible difference is the USA neck has a much thicker fretboard.
The model 2 neck has a swirl in the grain so part of it is somewhat vertical but the USA neck has a bit of swirl too.
So neither are what I would call flatsawn.

[jackson1]

Ok, here's something for us to look at. There's one stripped M6 from Rob's link and a M6 from my arhives:









Next one:

[dg]

That's definitely not a quatersawn neck. Compare the end-on view with this pic of H's quartersawn neck:












To me, it looks like the Model 6 neck was flatsawn from about the area I circled in red, compared to Henrik's, circled in blue.

[Rich#6]

It doesn't look like it is qtrsawn to me. the lines should be alot more uniform and close together.
I looked at my charvel SD reissue, my bc rich gunslinger and the picture of my now gone charvel 2002 series traditional. (now I know I should have keep my 2 2002 series charvels because they are qtrsawn).All have qtrsawn necks.

Here is a picture of the traditional.


Notice the flamage. I did strip the finish and tungoil the neck. Hard to believe I only got 240 for the guitar 2 years ago and it sold a few months ago for almost 400.

In the 88 catalog it does show a fretboard diagram as qtrsawn but calls it conical.
http://audiozone.dk/cm/displayimage.php?album=39&pos=0
I was going to strip the finish off the back of my model 2 now I probably won't