- This is a built-up neck made
from stacked blocks of poplar from Home Depot. I'm pretty sure this is so-called Tulip
poplar, because of the overall characteristics and varying colors in the stack. Poplar is
generally a "white" wood like maple, with a fine, close grain, with varying
green, brown or even purple streaks. I picked wood that tapped nicely and was pretty
nearly featureless.
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- I stained it to look like
mahogany, and deliberately left some dark streaks to simulate grain.
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- There's no heel cap, and no
evidence that the heel stack has been drilled for a barrel bolt to fasten the neck to the
box. That's because the hole was drilled from the fingerboard side so it would be
concealed by the fingerboard.
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- The tuners are your basic
"Ping" type in gold finish.
