batsbrew
WTF
You keep insulting my children (intentionally or not) and insulting those of us who disagree on the merits of various neck designs (again, intentionally or not).
i'll leave it to others to do their own homework,
and hopefully if they are good at it, they'll come up with the same info i came up.
Or perhaps they'll find that there are various approaches, more than one of which are capable of performing at the highest level but with perhaps different trade offs.
But doing tap tests between differently constructed necks doesn't make sense - if you do a tap test on a multi-laminate neck or a graphite neck, you probably won't be impressed - and not because they dampen vibrations, but because they influence the string's vibration
less than vintage style necks.
Which is one reason why those types of necks are used and preferred by so many people who have most certainly done their homework.
Personally I would never use a vintage style design, though I do know that many people prefer the sound as the neck may contribute more to the tone than other more stable designs which are more neutral (with graphite being at the extreme).
IOW, sometimes there is more than one right answer to a homework problem.