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Originally Posted by golfnut
Thanks. I guess I didn't look closely at the $200 necks. I just assumed they were finished. I've never bought a neck after market before. If I do decide to buy a neck I want the best I can buy.
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I really don't mind finishing my own necks, but I do want serious assurance that if the thing goes wrong somehow, I can call the proprietor and he will respect me. So, I buy a lot of parts and parts assemblies from Dale Clark (Glendale) but as for the necks I'm pretty much exclusively doing USA Custom Guitar, not Warmoth. I have at least a dozen Warmoth necks and I can't complain too much because I never got one I felt needed to be returned. Meanwhile, I now have more USACG necks and they're just one step nicer, one step closer to being bolted onto the guitar and played well. I'm talking, where the rubber meets the road. As you may have noticed, the Glendale headstock is proprietary. Well, so is the USACG, but if you buy unfinished you can reshape it into a real valid Broadcaster headstock and because that kinda thing is my forte I don't allow for that at all.
From my perspective, the USACG neck is quite a bit better value for money than the Warmoth, plus I trust the people to get it right - but if not to make it right.