help needed building a maple cap strat neck

[timtim]

hi all.

im in the process of building a strat.

i allways wanted a maple cap neck.
but im not sure how they are actually constructed ...
what i mean is i know that before the cbs buy out the necks were all 1 piece (skunk stripe on the back.)
or rosewood 2 piece with no skunk stripe and a propper slab of rosewood flat on the bottom and radiused on top.

now from what i can gather around 67 they went from slabs to veneers , as in there would be a rock maple neck radiused on the finger board side then a rosewood fret board that was much thinner than the pre-cbs slabs and concave on the botom and convex 7.25" radius on the top.
from what people have been sayin over at strattalk this was exactly the same for the 2 peice maple necks

apparently this was to stop warping problems they were having due to the woods expanding at different rates with humidity heat etc.

any way im having real problems finding any blueprints or dimensions for a 2 piece maple neck.

anyone out there have a maple cap/ round laminated strat neck.
could be a huge help to get a couple of measurements.

thanks in advance

r

[mabley123]

Maple fingerboards, 1960-1968: available as special order. Different than the 1950s one-piece maple necks. These used an actual slab maple fingerboard glued to the maple neck, and no "skunk stripe" down the back of the neck for the truss rod.


Maple fingerboards, 1969 and later: Fender's maple neck changed back to the 1950s style one piece neck with a walnut "skunk stripe" down the back.


so from 60-68 fender used a slab maple board not veneer and it was only available by special order.

im not much on guitar construction but i would assume you could just substitute the maple slab instead of a rosewood slab and use the same construction principles as used on the slab rosewood ?

fender went back to the 1 piece in 69.

i have 1 of the last of the 4 bolts made in 71 but it is a veneer rosewood board.

[timtim]

thanks mabley123.

i have read that all the maple caps were infact slabs not veneeres somewhere on the web, cant remember where now.

i was trying to verify this with the folks at strattalk.
some one there posted up links of some 2 peice maple necks that do look as though they are more likely a veneer construction.

http://www.eddievegas.com/store/deta...STRAT-NECK.php


http://www.eddievegas.com/store/deta...STRAT-NECK.php

what do you think? im pretty sure these two at least are veneeers??

if im honest i was hoping it would be a slab of maple substituted for rosewood this would allow me to still go with a compund radius and just be alot easier all round. sourcing blueprints etc.

how do you like the 71 rosewood veneer neck?
how thick would you say the veneer was?

[torodurham]

I had a piece of figured maple veneer that I thought I'd try and see if I could attach it to the 60's player I have. Came out real nice...I'm sold on veneer.