I bought a Chinese neck. Place your bets when it will get here.

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It shipped yesterday. 60$ from China with love.

I was going to buy a warmoth, but they are backed up. Add any options to your wArmoth and it's easily a 500 dollar neck. It's going on a cheap guitar that isn't worth refretting. worn down from playing.

 

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This is the neck.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Diy-Electric-Guitar-Neck-24-fret-25-5inch-maple-Fretboard-Truss-Rod-X/333478172565?_trkparms=aid%3D111001%26algo%3DREC.S EED%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20160908105057%26meid%3Dfcd42 2d65b36436e82232b49795c23db%26pid%3D100675%26rk%3D 2%26rkt%3D15%26mehot%3Dlo%26sd%3D143372298906%26it m%3D333478172565%26pmt%3D1%26noa%3D1%26pg%3D238005 7%26brand%3DYinfente&_trksid=p2380057.c100675.m423 6&_trkparms=pageci%3Afde06d90-d13f-11ea-96c4-74dbd1802af9%7Cparentrq%3A98515d7f1730ac3db17026ee fff05806%7Ciid%3A1

Those headstock holes look like they were hand drilled. What have I done..

 

[ehdwuld]

you know if you go on Aliexpress you can chat with the builder and get what ever you want
for around the same price

those holes are not evenly spaced

I talked with one guy about getting the vine inlay and a specific headstock
we chatted for days and exchanged pictures to illustrate what I wanted
then for some reason I just never ordered it

at some point it just felt like he didnt understand what I expected

 

[Top-L]

you know if you go on Aliexpress you can chat with the builder and get what ever you want
for around the same price

those holes are not evenly spaced

I talked with one guy about getting the vine inlay and a specific headstock
we chatted for days and exchanged pictures to illustrate what I wanted
then for some reason I just never ordered it

at some point it just felt like he didnt understand what I expected

I figured that would be the case, trying to communicate something, only to have it delay the order, then find out it's wrong.

Better to just order something he had already built. This neck is pretty much what I came up with in the warmoth configurator.

I will have to plug and redrill the holes. I didn't notice that was an issue until after the order.

Order estimate is 3-5 weeks. I'm hoping sooner.

 

[ehdwuld]

good luck hope it works out

what recourse do you have with ebay if the neck is unusable

plan on leveling the frets

and touching up the nut

edit

I got a $25 neck off amazon some years back and still have yet to mount it to the project
changed the nut
made my own waterslide logo

got every thing just havent mounted it

 

[Top-L]

good luck hope it works out

what recourse do you have with ebay if the neck is unusable

plan on leveling the frets

and touching up the nut

edit

I got a $25 neck off amazon some years back and still have yet to mount it to the project
changed the nut
made my own waterslide logo

got every thing just havent mounted it

There is a yt video of a guy who built a guitar body and bought a Chinese neck with the intention to buy a better neck later, but he stuck with the Chinese neck.

He made a good point, even if the neck is junk you have a platform to experiment, try refretting, finishing etc.

The cheap Chinese neck that came on the guitar developed an unfortunate relief, and the frets are too worn down, self leveled twice. It sounds pretty great for some reason and is worth saving.

I may use the neck as platform for my first refret, then send it for a plek.

 

[Mincer]

If you stick with Showcase necks, Warmoth is available and a lot cheaper than $500.

 

[idsnowdog]

I have been waiting two months waiting for a set of pickups from China.

 

[JB_From_Hell]

I built a neck on Warmoth the other day, roasted maple neck and board, stainless frets, optional profile, optional radius, and it was like $300. There was a similar, minus the stainless frets, Fender neck on Reverb for $200.

 

[Chris Pile]

Those headstock holes look like they were hand drilled.

On much of the stuff I have to repair, it usually is. I had to rework one of those kit copies of a Vai JEM, and not only were the holes located at haphazard places, but none of them were perpendicular to the face of the guitar. A simple drill press is unknown to many of these makers. I cannot find the video anymore, but 2 years ago I saw an open air guitar factory in Indonesia under a large grass-roofed hut with a dirt floor. Workers were standing at bamboo tables hand-making these instruments - even finishing operations. No humidity controls, no quality control, and no worker safety in place. We are talking the most rudimentary of production methods. I was amazed how presentable some of the guitars looked when boxed up for shipping. Don't count on properly dried woods (this explains all the twisted necks) and massive variations in construction from guitar to guitar.

 

[Top-L]

I built a neck on Warmoth the other day, roasted maple neck and board, stainless frets, optional profile, optional radius, and it was like $300. There was a similar, minus the stainless frets, Fender neck on Reverb for $200.

Did you actually have them build it? They are backed up. Probably several months.

 

[Wonker]

I ordered a Warmoth strat body three days ago. I probably won't see it until December.

 

[Top-L]

On much of the stuff I have to repair, it usually is. I had to rework one of those kit copies of a Vai JEM, and not only were the holes located at haphazard places, but none of them were perpendicular to the face of the guitar. A simple drill press is unknown to many of these makers. I cannot find the video anymore, but 2 years ago I saw an open air guitar factory in Indonesia under a large grass-roofed hut with a dirt floor. Workers were standing at bamboo tables hand-making these instruments - even finishing operations. No humidity controls, no quality control, and no worker safety in place. We are talking the most rudimentary of production methods. I was amazed how presentable some of the guitars looked when boxed up for shipping. Don't count on properly dried woods (this explains all the twisted necks) and massive variations in construction from guitar to guitar.

I'm sure I'm going to regret buying it. At least the neck is unfinished. I could let it dry out some.

The Chinese guitar its going on sounds great and has given me much more use than the 250 I paid. The problem with the neck is not twist, but that the relief added by the truss is not gradual. The bend seems to mostly happen around the 12th fret. I dont think its a finishing problem, just cheap wood. Its still very playable, but the frets need replacement.