So I ordered a neck for a project - brand new £25 delivered. Got to be worth a try right?
NOPE.
Looks OK at first, but on closer inspection the frets are like rollercoasters ... not fully pressed in on some spots, pressed in too hard and dented on others. Otherwise it looks OK, straight enough and fits the neck pocket well.
Will cost me £10 to send the flipping thing back, so I thought about keeping it and doing something whacky. Any ideas? The few thoughts I had were -
1. Slide guitar?
2. Keep it and practise re-fretting?
3. Remove the frets and make a fretless tele ... ?
4. Travel down to see the seller and beat him around the head with it until the frets flatten?
Any other ideas for what to do with it?
Moral of the story - don't skimp on quality when buying a neck! Makes me realise just how good the GSPbases one I have on my other partscaster is!
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DaLefty
(Ya tight wad . )
*USACG may be the one exception I know of for this, their work is almost spot on every time.
http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/61134/sarge/p1
Looking to reduce the cost of my slide guitar challenge build I decided to buy a cheap neck from eBay. This one http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/111861223303. For £20 it would be cheaper than buying the wood and wire to make my own. I expected it to be made using the same machines and jigs as other Chinese necks, but using poor quality wood, and with badly seated frets. Actually the wood's not too bad, but the frets are out of place. 1 to 5 are OK, but then they get progressively flat until the 15 is a whole fret width out of place, after which they progress the other way until the 20th is half a fret width sharp.
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