Fender vs squier neck.

[Feck Studios]

OK. So this partscasrer I'm slower lying gathering bits for...

The closest I could find to what I really want is the fender Classic Series 60s neck. Gloss c with 7.25..

Now, for about a third of the price I found a mint Suier 40th annaversary neck that's gloss c but 9.5 which I also like just not auite as much as 7.25 and its literally a walk away from my house.

I do like how it is quite different and the partscasreer I'm doing is gonna be quite different anyway so I think it would fit in well aesthetically.

Question is has anyone used squier necks for builds and if so what are your thoughts good bad and ugly? Cheers.

 

[Fendereedo]

Squier necks are great, and I recently just sold one that I did a refret on with steel jescar frets a few years back. It was a 9.5 neck iirc. Anyway, long and short is that Squier frets wear down faster than pencil lead, not something I would relish doing again for a good few years. Ymmv.

 

[Feck Studios]

Interesting. Cheers for that info.

 

[ChicknPickn]

Squier necks are great, and I recently just sold one that I did a refret on with steel jescar frets a few years back. It was a 9.5 neck iirc. Anyway, long and short is that Squier frets wear down faster than pencil lead, not something I would relish doing again for a good few years. Ymmv.

Soft frets are a bummer. I got a beautiful Mighty Mite fancy-grade birdseye maple neck maybe 10 years ago. It was a real looker and had a nice profile. I know I have a monster grip, but there were sizable divots in those frets within a year. I leveled it once and the divots were back in short order. I've laid it aside for a time when I might feel up to putting some stainless frets on it.

 

[archetype]

Squier necks are great, and I recently just sold one that I did a refret on with steel jescar frets a few years back. It was a 9.5 neck iirc. Anyway, long and short is that Squier frets wear down faster than pencil lead, not something I would relish doing again for a good few years. Ymmv.

"...Squier frets wear down faster than pencil lead..." is an overgeneralization I won't let you get away with. There have been periods where specific models had frets that wore faster than expected. That's not all Squiers. Not at all.

I play 5 quite different Squiers that don't have fret problems like that.

 

[Fendereedo]

"...Squier frets wear down faster than pencil lead..." is an overgeneralization I won't let you get away with. There have been periods where specific models had frets that wore faster than expected. That's not all Squiers. Not at all.

I play 5 quite different Squiers that don't have fret problems like that.

Maybe I had bad luck with my old CVC neck, but it wore down very quickly, what more can I say.

 

[archetype]

Maybe I had bad luck with my old CVC neck, but it wore down very quickly, what more can I say.

Not bad luck. There was a run of the early CVs that had soft frets.

 

[mschafft]

"...Squier frets wear down faster than pencil lead..." is an overgeneralization I won't let you get away with. There have been periods where specific models had frets that wore faster than expected. That's not all Squiers. Not at all.

I play 5 quite different Squiers that don't have fret problems like that.

Hopefully they're as good as Fenders but they don't wear as fast when you rotate five guitars.

 

[Tarkus60]

To me squire necks are hit and miss. Some are fantastic and others not so much. If you can test it first, that would be nice.

 

[mschafft]

Not bad luck. There was a run of the early CVs that had soft frets.

Yes I believe I had one of those (a 50 strat). The frets wore as fast as the ones on my Gibson LP P90 '60s Tribute...
Or maybe my technique has improved since then.

 

[MAS Tequila]

Jump on that 40th Anniversary neck.

You will love it.

I have two of them.

 

[Feck Studios]

Jump on that 40th Anniversary neck.

You will love it.

I have two of them.

Picking it up tomorrow man. Not the 7.25 gloss c fender rosewood I was after but I couldn't knock back that binding and block inlays.

 

[Feck Studios]

Jump on that 40th Anniversary neck.

You will love it.

I have two of them.

Oh also has tuner and 40th back plate with screws included.

 

[Feck Studios]

Hopefully they're as good as Fenders but they don't wear as fast when you rotate five guitars.

I rotate quite a few so should be OK hahaha

 

[Rokdogguy49]

I’ve owned six different Strats in my life…American, Japanese and Mexican. My 2022 Squier CV 50 is the best sounding and best playing of all of them.
JMO.

 

[IrishBread69]

"...Squier frets wear down faster than pencil lead..." is an overgeneralization I won't let you get away with. There have been periods where specific models had frets that wore faster than expected. That's not all Squiers. Not at all.

I play 5 quite different Squiers that don't have fret problems like that.

That has been my experience also.

Of course there's an element of how often and how hard you play but the wire is softer than almost everything else I've ever played.