American Hard Maple Neck blanks

Acer saccharum   Also called Sugar Maple and Rock maple,  s.g. 0.7 Hardness 6.5KN T/R ratio 1.9  FSC (mixed) credit.

Ideal guitar timber, hard but light, very close grained and easy to work,

the blanks are dressed to thickness both sides.

they can be bought very close to finished thickness,

75mm wide blanks may be wider, up to just under 100mm

quartersawn will be about 80 to 90 degrees

rift will be better than 45 degrees