Grain Orientation In Counter-rift Laminate Necks

[verhoevenc]

I was just wondering it it's best to have the rift grain orientation in one configuration in a laminate neck or the other? Which would be better to have:

A- The grain pointing to the center?

B- The Grain acting as a triangular truss?

This picture shows the two configurations you can have a laminate neck laid out (neck has two sides of rift sawn wood and a center that's quartered), the trans red represents the carve of the back of the neck.

Chris

[toddler68]

I think I would lean towards B, but I doubt it matters all that much. The quartersawn center laminate should provide sufficient strength. Anyone else care to chime in?

[verhoevenc]

Oh, I just drew in the center quartered. I'm talking necks in gernal, with or without a quartered center. I don't have a specific neck that lookws just like that. I've talking for ALL rift lam. necks.

Chris

[fryovanni]

"A" would probably look better and if you taper a bit you would see less runout on the sides. Did I guess correctly???

Peace,Rich.

[Setch]

Yeah - A, for the reasons given by Rich.