I can say this neck feels pretty light compared to a previous one made from the same wood not baked. I was mainly interested in the colour and stuff, heard plenty talk about it, thought I’d try it.   Regarding…   Read more»

@darrenking this is what I get when googling.   “How do they make roasted maple wood? Roasted Maple (also known as Baked, Caramelized, or Torrified Maple) is maple that has been heat treated in a specialized vacuum oven to remove…   Read more»

@darrenking 🤣 🤣 🤣

Hey up Brian, also North east Scotland here

So far so good, think I’ll make this one to fit my first build, it’s the only one I haven’t made the neck for.
Used Mark’s method shapping today, a lot quicker than the gazillion facet method I was using before!
 

@robin in a vacuum, no air, no expansion, no expansion , no boom! No new method of transport lol
 
Besides, I’d send the wife to check on it 🤣 

Operation new neck is fully under way, I can do the carving etc but I’m going to buy one of those crazy long radius blocks like Mark uses to do the radius and levelling out of the board.

@robin that’s crazy talk! Got three necks on the go just now lol
Well, two necks and a neck through
 

@tv101 yeh come on Mark, about time we had some new youtube content lol