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Post by Greg G. on Mar 14, 2006 15:14:31 GMT -7
After playing on my Parker for a while now, the fast neck has kind of spoiled me. I've been wanting to replace the neck on my Strat for a while now anyway, something nice like birds-eye maple. Any suggestions on a good replacement neck that has better playability than the stock Fender?
Thanks, Greg
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Post by zdogma on Mar 14, 2006 15:17:47 GMT -7
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Post by dave on Mar 14, 2006 16:57:33 GMT -7
I put a warmoth neck on my standard strat - it was an ebay impulse buy but worked out really well. Nice flame maple, well finished jumbo frets (just love those) and the dinky Gotoh truss rod adjuster on the side of the neck. Very stable, very playable. The neck heel was a tight and accurate fit but it was a 22 fret fingerboard and I had to cut back the scratch plate for the overhang to sit flush on the body. No big deal. The only other issue was a crap plastic nut that buzzed like a sitar. Replaced with a new bone nut and all was well.
As zdogma says, there are some nice looking necks on the website.
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Post by guitarman1 on Mar 15, 2006 8:47:00 GMT -7
I have just recently purchased and installed a Warmoth Strat maple/rosewood neck and a Tele maple/maple neck both finished from Warmoth that cost around $320.00 each with a Corian nut installed.. I got the standard thin profile with the 10" to 16" compound radius. These are pretty fast necks and fit my hand well, but I do have medium/small hands. These might be too thin, front-to-back, for somebody with big paws. They have about the same front-to-back thickness as my 2005 Fender US Vintage 62 re-issue I just sold. The Good News: The finish on each neck was superb.....as good or better than any US factory production guitar. The frets on the Tele neck are very even and smooth on the sides. I'm in the process of setting it up, but I don't think I'll need a fret job. If you get a finished maple fretboard, you'll have to scrape the poly finish off of the frets with a razor blade. The Bad News: The stainless frets on the Strat neck were a bit rough on the edges and there were a couple of high frets that made it impossible to set the action low without bad string buzz. I sent it off to Phil Jacoby for a PLEK fret job at $150.00 and now the action is amazing. The Strat neck nut pinched the E & G strings and kept them from ringing when played open. I wanted a Feinten system on the Strat, so it was replaced with a Feinten bone nut by Jacoby also for $150.00 (Feinten system included). The Tele neck nut pinches the E string and keeps it from ringing. I think it just needs filed a hair wider, so I'm going to take it to a local guy for this minor adjustment. I just want to make you aware that you can't count on buying a Warmoth neck and expect not to have to dress any frets or file the nut nut slots. Here are some pics of the necks. The Tele photo is from Warmoths website, but doesn't do the beauty of this wood justice. It has their "vintage" tint with the gloss finish. The Strat neck has their satin finish. NOTE: I have heard from a few sources that Warmoth's truss rod system, "Warmoth Pro", with the adjustment on the side of the neck has problems. I would stay with the Vintage or Vintage Modern system.
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Post by Greg G. on Mar 15, 2006 12:36:39 GMT -7
looks, nice. The other thing I have to keep in mind is how much money I want to spend on an "okay" guitar before I get to the point where I should just replace the guitar entirely.
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