I suspect Strats just aren't my thing.

[Rex_Rocker]

Not just sanding, but shaping. In most cases its not the thickness, but the shoulders, which make a neck plump and ‚thick‘.

I like D-shaped necks, personally. But this one isn't all that D-shaped.

The problem I have with this neck is not that it's bad, really. It's just that it was sold as "built for speed", but it's just an almost generic middle-of-the-road neck profile, really, which I guess is "shreddy" by vintage Fender standards.

I could sand it... but that's about as in-depth as routing out the body to make the pickup sit a couple of mm closer to the bridge it self. I feel like it would be more trouble than it's worth for a guitar that doesn't only have this "issue" for me.

I'm moving pickups around. Right now, I've got the Custom on my Les Paul, but I'll move it to the Fender and sell it once I decide which pickup I'm getting for the Les Paul.

[GuitarStv]

I've found that I play about as fast on thick necks as thin ones once I've gotten used to them. The only things that always slow me down is bad fretwork or extremely thin necks.

[Rex_Rocker]

I can play the neck. My Les Paul's neck is fatter (but even if I dislike the neck on the Les Paul even more, the Les Paul does sound killer). I just don't overall love the shape of the neck, I think. It's awkward. But I guess what keeps me the most from enjoying it was that I bought it thinking it would be "built for speed", when it's just a random middle-of-the-road neck with jumbo frets where the "baked" Maple is barely baked at all, and my other guitars' necks are more stable even if they're not "baked".

It's not like I hate the Strat, but it's just many things that bother me a little that add up to me not enjoying it. But the neck is like 15%. The other 85% is the tone, honestly.

[jeremy]

chugg and strats arent the first pairing i think of

[Mincer]

chugg and strats arent the first pairing i think of

Certainly not without radical changes.

[weepingminotaur]

Get a Charvel Super-Strat with a hardtail bridge. That's my current jam, and I'm definitely more of a Les Paul guy normally. With the compound radius, it's a pretty fast neck.

[AdrianSD]

It's not like I hate the Strat, but it's just many things that bother me a little that add up to me not enjoying it. But the neck is like 15%. The other 85% is the tone, honestly.

Looks like you just don't like the way it sounds and that's the way it is.

[AdrianSD]

Get a Charvel Super-Strat with a hardtail bridge. That's my current jam, and I'm definitely more of a Les Paul guy normally. With the compound radius, it's a pretty fast neck.

Check out gap between the bridge and the pickup:

https://charvel.com/gear/shape/san-dimas/style-1/pro-mod-san-dimas-style-1-hss-ht-m/2965063576

[Rex_Rocker]

I kinda fall in and out of love with this thing. I just put the Custom in there, and I'm digging the sound, honestly. I just wished the neck was thinner, LOL.

One thing I will always say is I think it looks cool, doesn't it?

Also, don't really dig that SDS-1. It's not horrible, honestly. I just wished it was louder.

[Mincer]

I think it just needs to have a neck pickup instead of a bridge pickup. And a tone knob.

[Rex_Rocker]

I think it just needs to have a neck pickup instead of a bridge pickup. And a tone knob.

It also has a neck pickup! It's just black with black polepieces, so it disappears in the black of the pickguard. That's the SDS-1 I was referring to.

[Chistopher]

Controversial opinion, but I think black screws would look better on the neck pickup mount

[GuitarStv]

I think it would sound better if you refinished the body neon pink.

[Rex_Rocker]

Controversial opinion, but I think black screws would look better on the neck pickup mount

Do they make those? Honestly, that might not be such a bad idea.

[Chistopher]

https://guitarelectronics.com/single-coil-pickup-selector-switch-screws-black-6/?srsltid=AfmBOoqkirMQo0eL2ty13Y42SJQLZxywKN8kBGksAvwzHE7qEUgqoeaV

These should work