The basic design is a neck tenon of 10 laminates, a 20mm thick top flame maple full cap and two rear wings, with a black pinstripe between them and the maple.
The neck tenon is (outside to centre) 33mm flame maple, 0.7mm dyed black poplar, 5mm bloodwood, 0.7mm black poplar, 10mm rock maple, 5mm ebony. This should be bright and stable. The ebony should reinforced the lower fundamentals.
The laminated neck tenon, sanded and oiled for the visual feelgood factor!
Detailed shot of the neck laminations
Test oiled scrap with flash and Test oiled scrap without flash. As you can see, I sanded at 80/120/180/240/320/400/600/800/1200 and then burnished with a burred stanley blade before oiling, buffing with 1200 and oil and a final thin coat of oil. The figure moves awesomely in this wood, so I'd hate to loose it in dye. Thanks for the words on that Drak. Your burnishing advice ruled on the scrap!
On that note, thanks have to SoundAt11 for the bloodwood (cheers Will man - hopefully you can get something back out of seeing your stock turn into an instrument!) and David Dyke for the maple, ebony and poplar neck woods.