Curious if anyone had thoughts on this topic, I recently replaced my stock mark vi neck that was bare brass with a similar vintage neck with probably 90% lacquer left. I prefer the new neck but the resonance feels like it is less in front if the neck and more from the mid to low end if the horn. Wondering if others have explored delacquering a neck to open it up, this might be a brightness thing too, I am used to playing on the bare brass neck on this horn and another and wonder if I could improve the new neck in this manner.