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Originally Posted by sgabalski
The neck blocks are rift sawn. Close to quarter and run kind of like the grain on the top.
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Wood wants to shrink cross grain and is pretty stable along the grain. If both the neck block grain and top grain are running parallel then any shrinkage will occur cross grain on both, amplifying any shrinkage due to humidity and probably showing up through the top.
If the grain in the neck block is running perpendicular to the top grain and parallel to the sides it will tend to shrink cross grain front to back and not side to side. Might help when the humidity drops?