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How about POC for steel string necks.LMI has this .I know there`s some out there for soundboards.
James

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It is a softwood, but I have done a 12 and 13 fret to the body with it, 2 piece, the 13 fretter is a thin neck, and though stable, I think I am at the edge of its stiffness, if I were to do a 14 fret, I would be thinking carbon fiber. On the electric finger style I just did, it is a 1"POC center with maple on either side, seems to have both the lightness and stiffness I was after. Les Stansell does all POC flamencos. I have used it for back sides and bracing. We have a yard here that sells it for fencing and picnic benches, so I can usually find neck blanks from them cheap.
Rob

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I used it for one of my archtops - "Oscar" The neck is Port Orford cedar reinforced with carbon fibre rods running the whole length. I didn't care for the colour very much so had it sprayed black. It looks very smart, and is very light and stiff. Plus it glues well, cuts like cheese and sands well. Good stuff.

Any reservations? Well, I wouldn't use it for one of my flat top guitars as many of my customers use a capo, it's soft enough to be marked by over zealous capo clamping but for a regular jazz player - to whom a capo is a no-no, no problem.





notice the compensated zero fret? It works really well.

nigel

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Nigel,
As a zero fret fan that is one of the coolest things I have seen in a while. Did you make that or is part of the True Temperment system?

I capo often, so far no problems on a siimple shellac finish. It is a softwood so it is possible, I did my own buckle rash on the POC back with a suspender buckle I thought was out of the way, a bunch of dents, not scratches.
Rob

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I made the fret myself, its compensated for each string - it works very well. The TT thing looks great but its more about meantone (being close to Just temperament in a limited number of keys) where as this is about achieving genuine Equal temperament ( equally out/in tune in all keys) Perhaps I'll start a fresh thread on the subject to keep this one "on topic"

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