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Originally Posted by Lostheart
Heard the same thing. He's not making the bodies he's selling (he farms them out to Brian Poe) so why should he make his own necks? Makes no sense to me.
IMHO he's getting aftermarket necks (USACG, Musikraft) and shapes them (or has them shaped) to his taste...
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Dale used to do a standard Fender Telecaster headstock ( see Glendale # 19 at the TGP member sales site ).
He doesn't do that anymore. For the proprietary Glendale shape, my estimate is that Tommy has the template on file and shapes the headstock in Puyallup just as Dale wants them.
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Don't know if this is still true, almost certainly is, but Warmoth's source of Indian Rosewood was great - that and almost immediate availability is why I went for those in '07 and '08.
Warmoth Vintage Modern neck on fabulous USACG maple cap alder.
They never have those deals anymore. For $ 157 they had a lot of light or subtle birdseye and/ or figured necks. "Bonus" they called them, but their supply of "bone" must have run out.