China made Tele Squier neck

[popeye]

Does anyone have any experience with the neck on a China made Tele Squier? Are they any good at all? Can they be made to play nice with a little work ??

Thanks again, Popeye.

[mellecaster]

Sure can.

[metulmykul]

With a little work?

Absolutely!

[boris bubbanov]

Depends. Best I can tell, there are many many contractors, all vying for work for Fender under the "Squier" label. I don't think anyone here really knows how many different outfits in China actually have made "Squier" guitars.

Whether you can use what you find will depend on which plant your neck originated in, and what you are trying to accomplish.

[ttl100]

I find the latest china made standard Strat rosewood boad necks are of very high quality.

[crowenor]

The neck on my CIC BSB Affinity is great. A little work (level/re-crown) makes it superb.

[castpolymer]

I actually prefer the Squire necks due to my short, sausage - like fingers. They tend to be a bit narrower. I also tend to refinish them ( except the CV Tele neck which is a beauty ) in nitro as soon as I get one.

[Delta Lion]

I have a Squier Vintage Modified Thinline Tele and the neck is goooorrrrrggggeeeeouuus. It's got a Gibson scale neck with a rosewood fretboard. The neck pocket is tighter than a frog's but and the fret job looks like it came outta the American factory. Someone woke up in China that morning and said i'm gonna make kickbutt squires today. I would hold that little shorline gold beauty against any MIM Tele and after the new pups go in in a week or to it'll at least spank a Highway 1 fo sho.

[viking]

The neck on my Squier Affinity Tele is really good, needs no fretwork at all.
Its a bit narrow at the nut , but some people have used a normal sized nut ( string spacing a tiny bit wider ) with good results.

I have lowered the slots in the oem nut a bit , and its ok. It looks a bit different than what I would call " normal tele shape/look" . Its a two-piece maple neck , maple cap , very pale looking when new , and the head shape looks a little off.

The neck on my Squier CV is the best looking/playing Tele neck I have ever played /used/seen. I love everything about it , the tint , fret size , head shape etc !
The shaping is a lot like my normal favourite shaped tele necks , the Allparts ones.
I have never seen a neck as good as this before , period !

[PJ]

Not sure, but I have a Made in India Squier neck that's very good.

[boris bubbanov]

I guess it helped that the whole guitar could be bought for just $ 69 on closeout there for a good while in 2007, but I really fell in love with the Cortek Surabaya (Indonesia) Squier 51 necks. Lovely profile. With a replacement nut and tuners (and I reshaped all the headstocks) they can be nitro coated/tinted to taste and are really fine necks indeed. The trussrods all seem to function right; and the only peculiarity is about a third of them have a separate (usually nicely figured) maple fretboard in addition to the walnut skunk stripe. I guess out of the 30 I had (I gave one to a non-player) one neck I was not 100 percent happy with - the maple seemed a bit soft and mealy, didn't sing like the others.

I'm not sure what happened with the made in India Vintage Modified Squiers. The necks were the nicest, most consistent thing. I don't see them any more.

[fshboat]

I have a made in China strat w/rosewood finger board which turned out to be a really nice neck. Very little tweaking to get it right. Get rid of the plastic nut first thing. Its cheap and constantly binds the strings to give you tuning problems.

[BluesHound]

My current project is based on a Chinese Squier affinity Tele, nice neck, plays well, feels narrow, but chunky if that makes sense. Between a U and a C profile.

[Doug Ferguson]

I have two BSB Affinity's, both CIC, that have excellent necks. The profiles are a bit thin, compared to a 50's Classic, for instance (my absolute favorite necks) -- closer to a strat. I played each before I bought it to check things over.

[Rasher]

It was a cheap used Chinese Squier Affinity Tele in a shop that I tried, bought on the spot & played in preference to my Strats that finally turned me onto Teles. The neck is maple capped with a slightly wrong headstock shape, but it plays so well that I've used it as the basis for my current surf green project.
It may be the best neck of all the guitars I own, and I have a few, and that's without any work on it at all.
It's an absolute peach.

[mkern]

My answer to the OP is: it depends. I bought an Chinese Afifnity Squire for a project and the enck is very nice. I was impressed as were my colleagues who won't touch a guitar unless its made in teh USA. Excited I could buy Affinities for $100, I picked-up another for a project, intending to use the neck, and its awful. The frets stick out the sides of the neckand catch your hand in addition to not being bedded to the fret board properly. I should have paid more attention when I grabbed the guitar in a hurry. I also recently bought a MII Squire Black & Chrome (based on a standard) with a rosewood neck and its brilliant.

[boris bubbanov]

Originally Posted by mkern

I also recently bought a MII Squire Black & Chrome (based on a standard) with a rosewood neck and its brilliant.

These necks are great, and they are so nice for reshaping/contouring/nitro toning and finishing. Mask the fretboard, and you won't have to wait for the nitro to dry to clean and level up the frets like you will on the (maple) Squier 51s. Now, the Squier 51 has the tiniest added shoulder, just a wee more girth than the MII Squier Tele necks and that is always welcome.

Also, those new import dimensions conversion bushings now exist, which make installing a set of Gotoh "kluson" vintage tuners a breeze.

If FMIC ever decides to make really beefy, No-Caster size Squier necks, the whole universe would flop over.

[rangercaster]

a CNC machine doesn't know or care what country it works in ... if it is set up correctly and fed the proper material the results should be fine ... then, of course, Quality Control is up to the manufacturer ...