Maple neck; one piece or two pieces with maple fretboard ?

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Maple neck; one piece or two pieces with maple fretboard ?

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Hello ~S~

Newbie question :

Looking for 1 ASAT on the Bay, i found some guitars with a two pîeces maple neck :confused0077:

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I was thinking the maple neck was usually made from a single piece of maple, with the G&L traditionnal longitudinally cutting ?


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Re: Maple neck; one piece or two pieces with maple fretboard ?

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G & L no longer builds the bi-cut neck. The new necks have the truss rod inserted from the top with the fret board covering the truss rod route. Therefore, even maple fret boards are now "glued" on to the neck. I'm not sure when the change was made but it caused quite a ruckus on the old forum.

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Re: Maple neck; one piece or two pieces with maple fretboard ?

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Ty Tom.
I'm looking for some G&L 'cause i miss my old ASAT Special, and the perfect bird eye maple neck ;)
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Re: Maple neck; one piece or two pieces with maple fretboard ?

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For details see:

G&L's Feature page on neck and truss rod and

About non-compression truss rod and Plek post
in this sub-forum.

Hope this helps.
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Re: Maple neck; one piece or two pieces with maple fretboard ?

Post by Noun0 »

Thanks Craig, it helps. .....i was confusing because it's look like non-bicut neck still have the litle hole on the back of the head ;)