Thanks for the trust.
I don't think that I could write an article on neck compatibility.
The best contribution that I (and many, many others) could possibly make is to give my honest opinion when someone asks a question neck question.
In general this would be is try and try but at some point if you don't find it pass.
I won't get it right all the time but the " crowd" does.
I don't know if you have seen this series, it is called " Wisdom of the crowd".
In short the principle is that any single individual can make mistakes but if you sum and collect (they did it with a huge computer system we will have to do it with our heads) many opinions, analysis, data and possibly facts, the collective will reach a conclusion which is averaging the " truth".
Going back to the original question.
So we have a definitive case compatibility chart. A recent Zephyr neck thread has made me wonder: is a definitive neck compatibility chart desirable, or even possible? Have you ever used a mismatched brand of neck on your horn? And were the results bad or good?
It'd be interesting to chart such mésalliances to determine whether any felicitous results you may have experienced with mismatched necks are repeatable, or merely one-offs.
The assumption here is that every horn starts its life with the best neck and we know this, at least in some cases, not to be true.
This is the reason why certain models have had necks changed during their run ( Buescher did that, King did that, Yamaha did that... and so on).
Besides the neck is part of a system, which includes horn and mouthpiece (and the player).
I have bought once a King Super 20 alto ot the 800.000 series (USA post Eastlake designation). It had an original overslung neck.
I have done anything to get it to play it right and I couldn't. I had also seen a Silversonic of the same series at a shop and the owner (a great player much better than me) couldn't play it in tune.
They lengthened a nd trhen shortened the silver neck and still couldn't play in tune, the they sold (as I did with mine to a carnatic music player who was happy with its intonation) at a greately reduced price .
I tried on this horn 2 other necks ( Yanagisawa 6 neck and a Taiwanese made neck) both with not satisfactory result.