I'm curious what your main reason is for laminating neck blanks.
Is it to fight wood movement by aligning grain orientation in opposite, or at least different, directions ? Or is it to promote strength by attempting to have the grain running as perpendicular as possible to the fretboard..."quartered".
Seems as though Fender is okay with flat sawn slab necks so my guess is that it's more for stability but I'm curious why you may do it ?
I have some 1" slabs of mahogany, wenge, and maple that I'd like to use for necks and looking at the grain direction I can rip more usable strips by just planning for opposing grain direction versus only using the quartered strips. Should I be shooting for mostly quartered ?
Thanks,
Steve