Wanted:60's early 70's mustang, duo, musicmaster neck

lamf68

On the lookout for any of the shortscale necks, preferably from the 60's...musicmaster, jaguar, duo sonic, mustang, bronco...gonna be the core of a mustang project I'm putting together, condition unimportant as long as the nut is okay and the frets ain't mangled. Don't wanna pay much more than £250 and would prefer to pay £200,or better still £7.00....just missed out on a musicmaster neck on eBay this afternoon after someone blitzed me with 3 seconds to go.

ICBM

I apologise if you know this already, but make sure you don't accidentally buy a 22.5" scale neck - they were made up to 1967 for the Musicmaster, Duo-Sonic and Mustang and are *very* short. 24" scale were made in parallel from 1964 onwards. The easy way to tell them apart is that a 22.5" neck has only 21 frets and a dot at the last fret, a 24" has 22 frets and the dot at the second last.

Also, many - possibly most - 60s necks you see for sale, even the 24"-scale ones, are 'A' width, which is very narrow. As a result 24" B-width necks command a substantial premium. The two things are related because people with guitars with the other sizes upgrade and then sell on the old neck...

All Jaguar and Bronco necks are 24" though, and almost all are B width.

(The Musicmaster neck that just sold for £100 was a 22.5" A width, if it was that one.)

lamf68

Cheers man, yeah I knew about the super short scale of the early ones, I was after a 24" scale... The one I was bidding on went for 236 if I remember, I slapped a 231 bid in and lost out....I just guessed that the B stamp on the bottom referred to the width, but to be honest the width wouldn't really bother me that much. Cheers for the info appreciate it.

ICBM

Yes, the B at the end of the date stamp is the width.

You might be surprised how much difference it makes - I find the As too narrow, and Rickenbackers are my favourite necks...

More strangely, the A width feels worse on the 24" than it does on the 22.5" for some reason - I think being longer, it then feels even skinnier somehow.

Those prices neatly illustrate the difference in value between a 22.5" A and a 24" B though!


This is making me miss all the short-scale Fenders I had . I've owned the whole set - although not all at the same time - including two Swingers .

musicman100

I have an all original 60s musicmaster

lamf68

musicman100 said:

I have an all original 60s musicmaster

and your selling the neck?

GavRichList

If you're willing to brave international shipping, they're pretty plentiful on reverb.com within your budget

lamf68

GavHaus said:

If you're willing to brave international shipping, they're pretty plentiful on reverb.com within your budget

Cheers Gav mate, I'll have a gander now, never heard of Reverb.com, but there was also a time when I'd never heard of Lambert and Butler!

GavRichList

Just had a quick look, and there are getting on for double figures of them. Go forth and explore.

lamf68

Just made an offer one of them, appreciate the heads up mate.

GavRichList

No problem. Reverb.com is great. First stop for pron.

DrBob

GavHaus said:

Just had a quick look, and there are getting on for double figures of them. Go forth and explore.

lamf68 said:

GavHaus said:

If you're willing to brave international shipping, they're pretty plentiful on reverb.com within your budget

Cheers Gav mate, I'll have a gander now, never heard of Reverb.com, but there was also a time when I'd never heard of Lambert and Butler!

Mate of mine used to have two cats called Lambert & Butler..
Mind you he also had two rats called Arse & Elbow because he couldn't tell them apart..

musicman100

lamf68;815999" said:

musicman100 said:

I have an all original 60s musicmaster





and your selling the neck?

Make me an offer then?

lamf68

If it's a big headstock version, I'll stump up 200.

musicman100

It is the big headstock

lamf68

There you are mate, 200 enough for you for it... I genuinely don't care about the condition which is why I don't want to pay more than that so if that's enough for you I'll be more than happy to take it off your hands.

musicman100

Tbh honest it's in mint condition
So I'll have to turn down 200.
Sorry

lamf68

Well.... That's a few minutes of my life I'll never get back...where will it all fucking end?

Richardj

I've got an old Strat neck you could cut a bit off of..........

Sorry

In all honesty Reverb is probably the place to go, as has been said, there are a few there and the shipping etc. oughtn't to be too spiteful.

Richardj

Or there is always something like this - http://www.ebay.com/itm/2015-Fender-Squier-Vintage-Modified-Mustang-Guitar-NECK-Guitar-C-Shape-Rosewood-/381433343504?hash=item58cf32ee10

Richardj

Or this - http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-65-RI-Fender-Mustang-NECK-Guitar-1965-Reissue-Rosewood-SALE-/141789092755?hash=item210349db93