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Paul, when you take multiple pieces of wood (say 3, maple, walnut, maple) that are flat sawn, turn them 90 degrees and glue together is this in effect quarter sawn?

Gee, Dave, thanks for the brain buster first thing this Monday morning. Couldn't we just have worked on the four days that start with the letter "T" or maybe how should "ghoti" be pronounced ?

While this might seem to be a no-brainer, I'd have to ask first if you're going for strength or grain pattern?

Quarter-sawn wood in general has a straighter grain with closer annual rings turning up as stripes. Flat-sawn wood is generally more interesting with regard to grain, but not as strong. Flamed or Birdseyed wood is usually flat-sawn. If you're talking sound (as in body or neck wood), quarter-sawn tends to be brighter due to its more even and closely-spaced grain. Quarter-sawn is much less likely to warp or twist, as well.

Because of the way each is cut, you cannot rotate one board through 90° and achieve the other. However, in laminating them and then cutting strips at 90°, you have a straighter-grained, laminated piece which gains in both strength and warp resistance.

So, you want to build a guitar that looks like a bowling alley?

jingle_jangle wrote:Gee, Dave, thanks for the brain buster first thing this Monday morning. Couldn't we just have worked on the four days that start with the letter "T"

Tuesday, Thursday, Tsaturday, Tsunday.

OK, smartass, now how about the "Ghoti" question?

Oh, you mean fish?

Yes!!! Now, about the "four days" one? (No fair Googling!!!)

I actually remembered the "ghoti" one from deep in the cobwebbed caverns of my hollow noggin. No Google-free insight into the Tsdays of the Tsweek, though....

Hey, are two of them Today and Tomorrow?

I want you on my team. Full marks, sir!!!

Except, why "fish"?

Gh as in tough
o as in ?
ti as in transition.

I have conversations about the inconsistencies of the english language with a co-worker whose native tongue is Spanish.

O as in "women".

I knew that!

Seriously, the Today/Tomorrow thing just came to me in a flash - glad to know I made the team! Yay, I'm picked!

I can't even bat cleanup......

Man, talk about thread drift!

Thanks Paul. I also found this nice set of pictures of two fender necks that shows the differences side-by-side.

http://musikraft.3dcartstores.com/Quart ... 4-1-1.html

Speaking of batting clean-up, Joe Crede did the South Side proud with a grand slam in the home opener.

Perfect example, Dave.

When I was first restoring one of my Fenders back in '04, I bought a "licensed" Fender neck from an online store. It was flatsawn, felt soft, fluffy and all wrong. Figures...the price was too good to be true, I thought. Since then I've been buying real vintage necks for my projects...most are good value for money. I pull the frets, relacquer them, and refret and re-decal them, and they're very nice.