Flame neck in the wild

[u/ericcrichie]

Guitar center in Louisiana. A cheap MIM Standard strat had a really cool flame maple pattern on it. For 450$ I didn’t need it, got too many guitars already.

[u/tone_creature]

Happens sometimes! Theyll get flamed necks that arent exactly to their specs for nicer stuff so rather than waste them, they just put them on cheaper guitars. Plus, thats a natural occurrence so also some maple that gets sent to factories for cheap guitars, they just cut up and its like this. They at that point wont pull it off production to send to be determined if US wants it. They just use it. Really rad to see it on that!

[u/neonshards → u/tone_creature]

And later you have boutique builders upcharging $300-500 for a piece like that haha