Hello guys, I was going to open a thread with a question about roasted maple necks, since this one is already on the first page I'm gonna post it here since it's related.
Yesterday I got my JPX with a roasted maple neck from the wall handler and I checked the straightness of the neck in that way closing one eye and aiming the guitar kind of like a rifle and I've notice that the neck that it's always straight like a ruler is now with a little bit of a bow, I didn't notice any change in the playability though, I know how to straight the neck, I was just curious about the reasons, because:
1 - It's been hot as hell here recently
2 - I've been busy so I didn't touch this guitar for a while like 3 weeks or more
So I don't know if it's reason 1 or 2, or both. I think during other busy times I didn't play the guitar for a while as well and nothing changed. I think for a guitar suffer any kind of effect related to non-play it's something like months or years stored, I think it's more weather related. I was just curious because I don't live in a place with drastic weather changes, it's basically warm all year so I don't need to do a lot of setup in my guitars every change of season, they are all very stable, I just adjust the truss rod when I change string gauges or tuning, but in the last week all of a sudden we got summer temperatures in the end of the winter so maybe is that.
I was just under the impression that a roasted maple neck, since it's more stable, for what I've heard require minimum setups, the previous owner of this guitar told me he played it in many different weather and the neck was always straight, so I was like "man I'm never gonna touch this truss rod".
So I think even more stable, roasted maple necks are still made of wood so it might require a little setup every once in a while correct?
