Regular Fretter
I wondered about G&L's 90-day warranty on birdseye maple necks, too...especially since it's an upgrade that adds a few hundred bucks to the base price. It's an exception to their otherwise 10-year warranty against defects in materials/workmanship on the guitar.
In any case, I had 2 G&L's with those necks -an ASAT Semi Hollow that now belongs to CB and a Comanche that a currently banned fretter bought from me & neither ever posed a problem.
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Regular Fretter
The old saw is bird's eye maple is not as strong through the axis of the neck due to the bird's eyes as more straight grained maple is.
Maple is a very dense and hardcore wood - I don't see any problems with bird's eye.
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Regular Fretter
I have a birdseye neck and it is fine so far. I am concerned about it though. I sure like the looks of it. I see Clapton with them all the time on the utubes but I did hear something like his techs where trying to get away from them.
When I look for a guitar though I look for long straight grain. I learned from when I played drums that the longer the grain the stronger the piece.
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