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Originally Posted by tschommer
I say definitely go with Warmoth, they make great stuff, and unlike USACG they offer you a great variety of stuff from their showcase. Their Pro construction with the standard thin profile is a perfect neck for me, and the side adjust truss rod mechanism is also really cool. Too bad they just really, really messed up their web site last week.
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If you like the "Pro" neck, then by all means stick with Warmoth.
Over half of all their necks on their Webpage display are the Pro variety, which for me means they don't exist, since I very much dislike those heavy, strange sounding things.
Of those that remain, the choices, for so many necks, is really not that much.
Warmoth does not offer, for example, a 22 fret 7.25 fret neck, nor a 21 fret 14 inch radius neck. Yes, the limited number of necks at USACG come in a bewildering variety of compound radii, construction types for different Fender periods, fret sizes Warmoth does not offer like my favorite 6125. There are variations on the Warmoth site but they are mostly clones of one another, once you view the site carefully. There are no thickness choices between the 59 Roundback (not big enough for me) and the 2 beefy sized Fatback and Boatneck shapes and if you crave something inbetween you gotta shave 'er down.
Something people overlook, I don't know why. The prices at W (except for 1-2 discolored ones) are their Regular prices, you just get a picture preview of what you're buying and the wait is shorter since all you pick is frets, and a finish if you like. By comparison, the necks on the USACG are really "specials" and I've bought off that page at $119 and $129. Sometimes you choose frets. Sometimes they're already fretted, sometimes they're even finished.
So maybe it could take you a year to get a dozen USACG necks cheap within a range of dimensions you will like. At Warmoth, if they don't have "your" neck today, it is pretty certain they never will. Outside of a small selection of options, thou shalt never go.