How do you feel about aluminum necks?

[HamishR]

Somewhere is a joke about aluminum necks only playing metal but I can't seem to find it atm. Oh wait....

Good for metal, but not heavy metal, only light metal. For heavy metal you'd want tungsten or even osmium.

 

[Giorfida]

From my experience playing pedal steel, which are all aluminum, you notice that after bringing it in from cold (even room temperature ) and playing a bit, as your hands warm up the aluminum, you’ll be doing a bit more retuning as it stabilizes. Put it down for enough time to acclimate to not being handled and it goes out again. I would assume you could expect similar results with an aluminum guitar neck, unless the mass is so little it doesn’t matter.

 

[Feral Feline]

I prefer 6061, and maybe 7046, but the 7005 series aluminum just sounds too brutally brittle.


Seriallsilly though, Liquid Metal Guitars sounded good but it was just the bodies that were alloy. The necks were wood or graphite...


Anyway, I've got an aluminum neck on my AlCoA bass. The body's aluminium, too! Here's a sneak peek:

 

[Passinwind]

From my experience playing pedal steel, which are all aluminum, you notice that after bringing it in from cold (even room temperature ) and playing a bit, as your hands warm up the aluminum, you’ll be doing a bit more retuning as it stabilizes. Put it down for enough time to acclimate to not being handled and it goes out again. I would assume you could expect similar results with an aluminum guitar neck, unless the mass is so little it doesn’t matter.

Yeah, my Travis Bean fretless bass definitely required some babying as far as tuning. It sounded like no other though.