This is the review I was looking for! All the information that nobody else gives which is all the information we need. Thanks for being informative and honest!
Well just before I was going to purchase the bargain bin priced Amazon neck I saw this video. I believe you have changed my mind. I didn’t spend all the time I spent on the body to have a bad neck on it. I certainly am not at the skill set yet to do a fret job so in the long run it’s cheaper to buy a better neck
I just applied Tru Oil (gunstock oil) to a maple fretboard Mighty mite. Stratosphere on eBay listed a Mex fender with non locking tuners 9.5 radius. I picked one up for $249.00 I believe. So at retail those tuners are about $50 so logo Mex neck with serial # for $199. ain't bad.
Bought one of these necks went to adjust the truss rod and it immediately broke the scarf joint. The frets are all over the place, the nut as you said was well high. I might as well chuck it in the bin.
Sometimes a cheap neck is best acquired by buying a complete cheap guitar - for instance I have a hot rodded Monoprice Tele ($79 on sale at the time), and I bought a 2nd for when I wear out the small fretwire.
Just got a cheap jackson neck and it needs the heel cut down like you said. Thanks for the tip with not using a router and to just sand it. Ibwas thingking of using my dewalt muti tool lol. Im pretty good with it. Flip the neck upside-down and chop a bunch of lines to create the curve i need and depth and then cut it long ways just enough to cut off the slivers ill need. That was my idea but sanding may work too. Mine came from the same company with that same card too lol.
I bought a 7.25 radius flame maple neck only to find the flame was air brushed on, 12" radius, garbage frets all buried under an 1/8" of an epoxy like finish.
Why reach to the bottom of the barrel for musical instruments? I use USA manufacturing. I know what the wood is, I know what the metallurgy of the fret material is, I specify the shape, the fret size, and know I will need to do minor fitting , and only minor fret work to be perfect. The outcome tonality wise is fairly predictable. As is using China parts. They are vastly different. Just buy a squire if you don’t have the funds. Asia guitars with QC from a larger manufacturer is better than rolling the dice at Amazon or other. That has no accountability or QC.
Yep, I purchased them because customers wanted to know. Purchasing guitar parts online is sterile you don't hold it feel it and get the dimensions. I keep those necks around for the, "I'll just replace it with an Amazon neck guys". Usually after they see and feel them they want the better product.
I've bought PRS tele neck from Amazon. This thing was not right from the get-go. the weirded radius of 8.50. The nut was way too high. I mounted on a body and had a luthier do a set up. The guy had to take the frets out and reshape the fret board to 10 inch and replace the frets and take off the nut and file it to a better height. the guy was cool and did not charge for the reradiusing and replace the frets. the neck plays well, but the neck thickness was too thick and replaced with a good neck with a thinner neck.
You know, when Fender pairs a neck, the neck is specifically sanded for the body. So to fit a neck neck perfectly, it is sanded to match the body. You don’t route a body to fit the neck. That explains why the necks are a little big. They’re giving you product to work with so you can get a perfect fit. This is also true for the nut. These are still roughed out necks. The time saved in finishing is passed on in price. You weren’t expecting perfection for $50 bucks were you?
they left a lot of sanding to do on the fret board also, If the radius is wrong setting up the guitar can be almost impossible. The extra 1/8th of an inch on the heel also. They would be better of sending the neck blank with the frets and inlays in a bag.
@@talonguitarworks7514I agree with you, I'm good with fitting the neck in the pocket and even a little fret leveling and crowning. But if I have to remove frets and start over on the radius sanding on the fret board then I'm better off spending the extra $150 for a genuine replacement product. Simply because I have no idea what I'm doing and just learned how to do a setup out of the box. From what I was taught radius sanding is not part of a basic setup.
This is the truth. I have done work on "Chibson", necks are terrible. A China Strats well replace that neck! Yeahh at one time fixing a China Strat I had five necks aviable to it and no one fitted, one can not move the neck from one Chibson to the next and expect it to fit. On Overseas metric Squires it will work as they are all the same.
This is the review I was looking for! All the information that nobody else gives which is all the information we need. Thanks for being informative and honest!
Well just before I was going to purchase the bargain bin priced Amazon neck I saw this video. I believe you have changed my mind. I didn’t spend all the time I spent on the body to have a bad neck on it. I certainly am not at the skill set yet to do a fret job so in the long run it’s cheaper to buy a better neck
I just applied Tru Oil (gunstock oil) to a maple fretboard Mighty mite. Stratosphere on eBay listed a Mex fender with non locking tuners 9.5 radius. I picked one up for $249.00 I believe. So at retail those tuners are about $50 so logo Mex neck with serial # for $199. ain't bad.
Bought one of these necks went to adjust the truss rod and it immediately broke the scarf joint.
The frets are all over the place, the nut as you said was well high. I might as well chuck it in the bin.
Great review sir. I love me some honesty. Budding luthier, that appreciates an honest working man's view instead of a shill.
God Bless ya!
Sometimes a cheap neck is best acquired by buying a complete cheap guitar - for instance I have a hot rodded Monoprice Tele ($79 on sale at the time), and I bought a 2nd for when I wear out the small fretwire.
Just got a cheap jackson neck and it needs the heel cut down like you said. Thanks for the tip with not using a router and to just sand it. Ibwas thingking of using my dewalt muti tool lol. Im pretty good with it. Flip the neck upside-down and chop a bunch of lines to create the curve i need and depth and then cut it long ways just enough to cut off the slivers ill need. That was my idea but sanding may work too. Mine came from the same company with that same card too lol.
I bought a 7.25 radius flame maple neck only to find the flame was air brushed on, 12" radius, garbage frets all buried under an 1/8" of an epoxy like finish.
unfortunately the cheap necks always have dimensions posted that aren't even close.
Why reach to the bottom of the barrel for musical instruments?
I use USA manufacturing.
I know what the wood is, I know what the metallurgy of the fret material is, I specify the shape, the fret size, and know I will need to do minor fitting , and only minor fret work to be perfect.
The outcome tonality wise is fairly predictable.
As is using China parts.
They are vastly different.
Just buy a squire if you don’t have the funds.
Asia guitars with QC from a larger manufacturer is better than rolling the dice at Amazon or other. That has no accountability or QC.
Yep, I purchased them because customers wanted to know. Purchasing guitar parts online is sterile you don't hold it feel it and get the dimensions. I keep those necks around for the, "I'll just replace it with an Amazon neck guys". Usually after they see and feel them they want the better product.
I've bought PRS tele neck from Amazon. This thing was not right from the get-go. the weirded radius of 8.50. The nut was way too high. I mounted on a body and had a luthier do a set up. The guy had to take the frets out and reshape the fret board to 10 inch and replace the frets and take off the nut and file it to a better height. the guy was cool and did not charge for the reradiusing and replace the frets. the neck plays well, but the neck thickness was too thick and replaced with a good neck with a thinner neck.
Those weird radius's are from the metric system so thats a bad radius of 21 centimeters
You know, when Fender pairs a neck, the neck is specifically sanded for the body. So to fit a neck neck perfectly, it is sanded to match the body. You don’t route a body to fit the neck.
That explains why the necks are a little big. They’re giving you product to work with so you can get a perfect fit. This is also true for the nut. These are still roughed out necks. The time saved in finishing is passed on in price.
You weren’t expecting perfection for $50 bucks were you?
they left a lot of sanding to do on the fret board also, If the radius is wrong setting up the guitar can be almost impossible. The extra 1/8th of an inch on the heel also. They would be better of sending the neck blank with the frets and inlays in a bag.
@@talonguitarworks7514I agree with you, I'm good with fitting the neck in the pocket and even a little fret leveling and crowning. But if I have to remove frets and start over on the radius sanding on the fret board then I'm better off spending the extra $150 for a genuine replacement product. Simply because I have no idea what I'm doing and just learned how to do a setup out of the box. From what I was taught radius sanding is not part of a basic setup.
@@joshuahockman1128 I will be doing a few videos on the labor it takes to make those necks work soon.
@@talonguitarworks7514 I'm subbed, I'll be watching!
Damn okay i might aswell get a used squier neck
This is the truth. I have done work on "Chibson", necks are terrible. A China Strats well replace that neck! Yeahh at one time fixing a China Strat I had five necks aviable to it and no one fitted, one can not move the neck from one Chibson to the next and expect it to fit.
On Overseas metric Squires it will work as they are all the same.
Matt from Texas Toast is really looking rough
Matt wishes he'll look this good in 15 years