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| Tele Home Depot Building a T-Style guitar? From scratch or from parts. This is the forum for you. |
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May 17th, 2012, 06:11 PM
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Experienced neck buyers: Please rate these tele neck makers please.
I'm researching to decide on where to get an all maple replacement neck for my 50's RI MIJ Tele. Has anyone bought lots of parts from many different companies giving them the experience to know...
Who has the highest quality for a Fender style tele all maple neck... Allparts? Warmoth? Musikraft? USACG? Is there another? Thanks in advance. |
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May 17th, 2012, 06:33 PM
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Location: Hemlock, NY
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I've only owned Allparts and Warmoth. I think they are great necks. The allparts is made in Japan and is rumoured to make the Fender Japan necks.
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May 17th, 2012, 08:10 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: New Orleans, LA + in the past
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USACG overall, best control over specifications, best quality woods, best fretwork, best truss rod, best price bought in large orders;
Warmoth gets a begrudging second place, but they're not better than USACG really in any single category unless you see a neck they have in Gallery you have to have now; Allparts can be much cheaper than Warmoth; the Fendery detailing is easily #1 but the fretwork is not nearly as good as the above 2, and in the models I like the kerf is way deeper than the fret tang. Inexplicable, but it may not effect the model you order. Buy through a known Allparts dealer and get him to "roll over" some of the differential between "his" price and "your" price in the form of TLC applied to these necks. Based on reputation and anecdote, Musikraft may be able to make a slavish reproduction of certain Fender necks, existing necks. Haven't bought from there. Some people fear the unlicensed USACG headstock is not Fendery enough. I say, get out your hand tools and just fix it, then finish the neck yourself as you should anyway: 
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May 18th, 2012, 05:41 PM
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USACG has been awesome for me, until I started making my own. I've had experience with each of the mfr's you mentioned and the quality of USACG was better imo.
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May 18th, 2012, 06:38 PM
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Herb I don't always play guitars , but when I do , I prefer tele's , stay twangy my friends 
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May 18th, 2012, 06:56 PM
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Location: College Park MD
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Macy Guitars.
But you get whatever neck contour my hands want to make that day. The finish is limited to Tru Oil or Belen's Nitro lacquer. The frets will be Stew Mac med-med because I bought in bulk. The cost is $1 less than the ones you listed because I have no freaking idea what it's worth. It will have my logo on it, and you will get it when I am done. Customer satisfaction is my #2 goal behind Patrick satisfaction. But that is not necessarily a bad thing. :-) |
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