The neck is firm, fretboard straight, until the second fret over the body, at which point the board begins to curve downward as it extends out over the soundhole. By tightening up, I'm referring to the strings' reduction of movement, on the highest frets over the body, and the aural consideration that entails. However, that may be secondary to the increasing sharpness of the notes as they approach the end of the fingerboard, though, overall it probably adds to the disflavor of those notes - the thuddishness/dullness of the 'bum' note. The strings are a player in this as well. In addition to their being 11/52s, they are tuned down to CFCfac, which is doing them pretty spare favor as far as clarity, but it's a preference that I have settled on. And the guitar itself is a mini jumbo - 15" across.
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