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I think a bit of sanding would make it work easily. But if you are not comfortable doing that I understand. For the cost, I would make it work.

@meadish

8 ай бұрын

Same here. I've built a couple of partscasters using Chinese necks. The first one, a Strat neck from Kmise, had a neck heel 2 mm too high, so I went to work with sand paper and a fret rocker, and in the end got it to Fender standard height without messing up the heel - not going to lie, it was *difficult* and time consuming to do by hand but it was possible in the end. The other neck I tried to fret level and messed up, so then I pulled the frets, and used the neck to practice refretting. Turned out my first attempt at refretting was a success, against all odds, so it now proudly sits with shiny new level stainless steel frets (ever slippery and shiny) on partscaster no. 2.0 with a bone nut I shaped from a blank. If I had the funds I think I would go for Musikraft necks - they seem to be the highest quality for the money. Since I don't have the money and want to learn more I have now bought 4 mahogany neck blanks and will attempt to make my first 4 own necks this year.

@hotcakesman

8 ай бұрын

@@meadish very very cool! I have tele body guides. I had them made by a family member who is a shop teacher. He asked me if I wanted a blank made of black walnut. It is super super heavy. Bought a neck from Chinna, but the pocket is a bit too wide. I am gonna buy some Walnut strips and build up the neck. Going for a natural look. When done it will be extremely high quality!

@jimmyhaley727

Ай бұрын

For the cost, I would make it work.

From LeoM: That thick clear finish is probably the interference issue. It was a pretty good looking neck.

@landonbailey

Жыл бұрын

I think you may be right!

Mighty mighty necks are around $130USD. Good necks, good value.

@landonbailey

Жыл бұрын

they are good!

Ive had Fender necks that fit like that. The finish on the neck or in the pocket is giving it an interference fit and a light sanding is required to make it fit properly. Also the wood screws probably would have compensated for the gap if you tightened the gap side down first. To me for the money you got a better deal than I was expecting. I agree with the comments, Mighty Mite necks are on par with Fender Mexico quality and I’ve never been disappointed in them. I’ve had fender necks turn out to be huge disappointments. It really is just the luck of the draw. I hate having to pay additional money on a $500 neck to be right, but even Fender USA necks need levels and have fret sprouts that need dressing.

Built a strat 4 years ago and went with similar neck. Had to do a little sanding on it to fit the neck pocket. It looked great, but I could never get it to play, or stay in tune right. Broke down and got a Mighty Mite Fender licensed neck for about $150. Fit right in the pocket and that guitar now plays as good, if not better, than an American Strat. My rule #1, don't cheap out on the neck. I also built a black top (humbuckers), soft tail Strat with a Mexican Fender neck. It plays great, too. Good job on your site Landon. I try to watch every edition. I'm 73 been playing guitar for 61 years! Played professionally, too.

@landonbailey

Жыл бұрын

Mighty Mite is good stuff! I had a good experience with them too

@Joe-mz6dc

Жыл бұрын

I bought a cheap Telecaster neck on Amazon and it was perfect. I think it's hit and miss.

I bought a cheap Chinese telecaster style neck that fit perfectly on a custom built guitar that I have no plans to sell ever. The neck is straight, but I had to level and crown the frets. It plays great now and it only cost about $90.

On any new neck, make sure the truss rod works. I've reshaped and refinished necks only to discover that the truss rod is seized.

Great channel and an interesting point.I never expect an aftermarket neck to fit and if never get one of thought I couldn't modify anything to fit.i find fret leveling/crowning a much harder job than a neck install.

I recently bought a stratocaster neck from I'm pretty sure the same manufacturer. I had no expectation of it fitting out of the box. But it fit surprisingly well. I did have to hammer in some frets that had shifted in shipping. Eventually I did have to level a few frets. I installed it on my 2000 era MIM Strat because I just didn't like the 9.5" radius or the 21 frets. (Not really fond of the Maple fingerboard). I put a Fender decal on the headstock and migrated my hardware over. Did put in a bone nut. Now I have a Stratocaster I like playing where before it hung on the wall for months. I prefer the 12" radius and the 22 frets as well as the Rosewood finger board. It transformed the guitar.

@Fotosaurus56

7 ай бұрын

I bought a roasted maple neck with a rosewood fretboard for my 2000 MIM Strat that had a maple neck with worn frets. The new neck had sharp fret ends, the nut was too high, relief was too much. I hung it on the wall for a year. I decided to try and fix it. I bought a fret file and cheap nut files and after set- up it is perfect. I found out it was also a compound radius neck. It's like a new guitar for $179 and the files.

I've done more or less the exact same thing. I think I got mine off eBay, for £30. I put it on a standard Fender tele body that I picked up cheap, and it fitted perfectly. I'm guessing you were unlucky and got one of the bad ones, or maybe I was lucky, and got one of the good ones.

Looks very much like a Squier CV neck you mentioned. I wonder if it would fit directly into one of those. The pitfalls of modding!

Looks like a pretty good neck. You have to improvise building Frankenstein guitars. A good luthier can make it work fairly easy.

@landonbailey

2 ай бұрын

Very true!

Mighty Mite or Warmoth necks are the best for the money. I got a Warmoth neck for my Tele that has a compound radius and is short scale (24.75” - Gibson scale). Plays beautifully.

I like those necks! A little sanding or a shim made out of a Queen of spades always for me.

I just may need to pick one of these up for my 2001 Squier “Standard” series Strat. I’ve got a couple frets that are popping up, and if my super-glueing technique doesn’t work, then a cheap new neck is the way to go. Thanks for the video. I’ve wondered about the quality of these. What size do you think the frets are (jumbo, medium, teeny-weenie, etc.)?

Perfect vid… I bought the Censtar Tele but I’m gonna try and put a Fender Tele Neck on.

A bit too tight is what you want in a situation like this. The neck was close- sand off a bit of the thick poly finish from each side and you can make a perfect fit. The typical poly finish is so thick you won't get near the wood. Which raises the question- if a fret wasn't level or a few fret ends were gnarly would you have bailed on the neck? These issues are the usual with a budget neck, but are easily corrected with minimal tools.

I’d take a chance on one for the money. See if I could get it to fit a old squier affinity . I ain’t scared . Got my pocket knife and some sandpaper for back up.

Ive put these necks on several partscasters and i have found with everyone of them ive used i have to adjust the trussrod and leval, crown and polish the frets and remove the sharp fret ends with some sand paper.but for how cheap these necks are they are consistent for just needing a little fret work and truss rod adjustment with them just needing minor adjustments to be perfect

@AverageCitizen333

11 ай бұрын

For the time invested, it might be worth the extra 100 to get a licensed neck from mighty mite. Your time is worth something too, and if its over an hours worth of work or more, you end up spe ding more in time

FIRED!

Just take a sharp chisel and slowly take material away from the neck pocket floor until the frets sit at the height you want. That fit is perfect actually. It will turn out great if you use a sharp chisel.

It was a snug fit, that was kinda surprising. It's the ones with wiggle room that you gotta look out for.

Never had a neck that didn't need a little bit of light sanding. Even all parts or warmoth

@landonbailey

11 ай бұрын

I never have until now

@chuckplainview4085

11 ай бұрын

@@landonbailey you lucked out thus far man!

people are talking about just sanding it to fit, but if you look closer... the problem is that the heel is not level. That is a lot of work to fix...and doing it wrong will cause the same issues. many of these cheap necks are rejects from OEM's, they have some defect...I have had some come with a the heel angled wrong, or like this one, uneven from side to side.......it's junk.... just send it back

@landonbailey

Жыл бұрын

it looked warped

Thanks for this. Good info. I agree about just spending a bit more and getting a Fender neck. You get a warranty, and most likely it will work. You will know the specs are correct, as in woods, fret size and dimensions. Nothing super special unless you go up the price scale, but good enough to make good music on.

@PhillipBlanton

10 ай бұрын

Hmm. $60 vs. $300 to $500 can't really be classified as a "bit more".

@paulpennington-mv7rt

8 ай бұрын

I bought a Fender Tele Mexico neck four years ago, Musician's Friend, about $165.00. Was building a '52 style. Had a full thickness pine body, like some early Broadcasters had. Anyway that neck blew my mind... Cool slight v-shape of an early Tele. Spot on. Even got a '19 current vin number.🎉 I would buy those necks all day long if i could. 🆗😎🆒🎸

That quick hit on Two Weeks from Total Recall is the main reason why I love you more than I can say!! YOU'RE A TOTAL NUT!!! 😂😂😂😂😂😂

Total recall it's an excellent movie 😂. I see your subliminal messages

@landonbailey

Жыл бұрын

I like that movie :)

Hey Landon, have you ever levelled a guitar neck bfr?

@landonbailey

Жыл бұрын

I haven't

Sir Landon, Have you ever heard of Walmart guitar necks? A friend of mine recommended trying them out just to get a feel for it and they look okay but I'm not sure about them, found one that looked like a PRS neck

@landonbailey

11 күн бұрын

I would assume it's a 3rd party seller on Walmart. Walmart doesn't make guitar parts

I bought a tele neck off eBay and the first nine frets from the nut were in the wrong position so you may wanna check that against a real tele neck!

If it's going on a Squier or another inexpensive Chinese brand body, shave the neck on both sides for 5/8 inches deep for the 3 inch heel and it should be a good fitment. It probably won't have an issue with the strings fretting over the edges of the fretboard when it's wide at the heel. the nut might be cut a little wider too, but the assumption, & it is an assumption is that if the heel was too wide, the rest of the fretboard might be too wide as well ? Since this never got past the neck pocket fitment, it's speculation that the rest of it is off or even spot on. The bridge & pickup poles didn't change, so it's a matter of getting the neck aligned for the heel in the neck pocket. I was considering a maple neck for a 18 year old Squier Bullet. Not that there's anything wrong with the Rosewood fretboard, but swapping a Rosewood for a maple fretboard, might be a neat little neck swap for an older, less valued Squier Bullet that needs new frets.

I bought the strat equivalent of this neck from Kmise, it's awesome for the price

Good video. I suppose that it's true, you get what you pay for. I just purchased a Fender Telecaster neck. Roasted maple with pau ferro fingerboard) It's totally straight and pretty much perfect. It was $400 (us) from the Mexico facility. I plan to use it on a 3D printed guitar. This will be the first 3D print guitar for me. I look forward to hearing how it sounds and plays. I'm loading it with JBE pickups. (Joe Barden) Do you think that you'll ever try a 3D printed axe? I hope so. You'd do quite well with the build, etc. rock on.

@paulpennington-mv7rt

8 ай бұрын

How did that one turn out? What a crazy cool idea~ i would def try that if i can get a printer one day. Ive made guitars out of some strange materials. Old furniture makes great guitars! 😎

Everything depends on the players/modders skill: For a beginner this is totally worthless and a waste or money...for someone who mods necks on the regular he knows he can make that guitar neck stellar especially if the original asking price is low like this.What separates that neck from crazy expensive ones is the low quality (and usually uneven)frets and nut. First tier is change the nut(mandatory swap) and polish the frets...that ll make the neck feel a lot better with minimal investment Second tier is level crown and polish frets then change nut... Third tier is install new frets...maybe some stainless steel perfect ones,change nut..and then roll the fingerboard for the extra custom shop broken down feel...presto...perfect neck everytime....

It takes more effort and time to package it up, return it etc. than it would be with 10 mins of minor sanding. For $60 seems pretty good. I mean, what did you expect?

Them TNT machines you some fixing man always blowing up on us haha.

I have a Bullit Tele. The neck was not to my liking. I got (From Stratosphere) a Classic Vibe maple neck with tuners for 180. I did a quick sand so it went in better and and presto. It`s now an awesome guitar! imo

@landonbailey

Жыл бұрын

nice!

@robfninh

Жыл бұрын

PS: It came with tuners installed.

Maybe you should the second cheapest neck.

So the moral of the story is? If you can't do anything, don't do anything?

I can't agree on this one, Landon. You've built enough instruments to know that a $50 neck is almost certain to need some work. In fact, most necks at 3 times that price are going to need some filing and sanding. Admittedly, i don't know what's happened to that guitar's original neck.

Love that Amazon return policy, don’t you?

I think drilling and bolting the neck into plaice would have been the best way to determine the fit just pushing it is not a fair test

@landonbailey

7 ай бұрын

?

Is it because the Vintera has 21 frets and that neck has 22? I'm not sure if that matters but that may be why it didn't seat well.

I bought a routed style neck from Amazon for about £60 pounds, finish was beautiful but the frets were dreadful. I straightened the neck ok but still had terrible fret buzz, couldn’t do anything with so best buying from a UK or America source. I through it in the bin in the end. It was Chinese. I will never buy an after market neck from Amazon again, a total waste of money.

@landonbailey

4 ай бұрын

I always say spend the most money on the neck

Id round the corners and shave the heela tad and screw it down. Itd fit fine. For that money your going to have to do fitment. Thats a given, probably even a tad bit of fret leveling Hell i paid 85 bux for an artis bran strat, blught a higher mass wilkinson bridge. Fliated it. It stays in oerfect tune. Rolled the fretboard dressed the fret ends. And put in electronics i already had and my fenders now are up for sale., i have 105 dollars into tye guitar and man does she do some srv tones and everything else i need it to with a superswitch.

You're missing an opportunity. That's how I got practice is ordering cheap guitar necks and fixing them. And then I would send it back

am glad you didn't use the Chisel to carve out room in neck pocket . maybe on a very inexpensive DIY body / neck kit then practice some woodshop - enter sandman is nice song but not everyone is going to be doing sanding and sorting through the shims to make it fit correct distance and angle . ah you could 3bolt microtilt it .

Nice. I got a cheap one on eBay cos I'm building a guitar and can't be bothered making the neck. It's got a lot of sharp edges, but that's okay. It wouldn't fit my LP, but that's okay cos I'm making the body to match it.

what is the name of the color of that fretboard? vintage maple?

@thorn_ziegler

Жыл бұрын

Glazed Pumpkin Donut from Tim Horton's eh

@landonbailey

Жыл бұрын

I call it Jonathan

He's got the kavorka!

Is your ceiling low or are you freakishly tall?

I thought that Amazon arrow in the thumbnail was how bowed the neck was lol

@landonbailey

Жыл бұрын

😄🎸👍

@jerryhatrick5860

Жыл бұрын

The amazon arrow ia a penis.. Now ypu cant unsee it. Sorry lol.

Pick up your skills a bit and sand the damn neck. Most necks don't fit exactly. You usually have to drill the holes into the heel of the neck. My advice with that is do not do that unless you have a drill press. I used to use the "go for it method" but that was pretty chancy. I have bought 3 necks that looked exactly like yours, except mine had the Fender logo (which they were not allowed to show on Ebay). All my necks were amazing. I grew up on a heavily finished CBS neck from the early 70's and these necks feel just like my old necks used to.

@landonbailey

2 ай бұрын

ain't nobody got time for that! 😆

@RickBeall

2 ай бұрын

@@landonbailey If you play guitar, then you have time for it. :-) I used to not work on guitars, but every time I asked my guitar tech how much it would cost to do something he always said $100. I paid it twice, and then started wanting to keep that $100 in my pocket.

You could have, you know...sanded the thick layer of lacquer off of it the same way you would if you spent hundreds on a neck from Allparts, Warmoth, or Fender. Imagine spending 300 dollars to avoid sanding something.

@landonbailey

2 ай бұрын

I knew, you know, all of that!

You couda saved your money and just found a big stick at the park.

@landonbailey

Жыл бұрын

😱

I think tihis is not a good review. If you buy a guitar neck on the Internet you probably know that it may need a little bit of sanding to put it in. Simple as that. There are many videos around showing how to work it out.

What is I have $ 300 - $500 for a Fender neck.. What would You suggest ??

@landonbailey

Жыл бұрын

Pro 2 neck. or 10 of these?

@SteveResor

Жыл бұрын

@@landonbailey Thanks ! I'll see what Sweetwater has in stock tonight and pick one up tommrow.. Plus .. Candy 🍬 😋

@jameshobbs

Жыл бұрын

Warmoth

@SteveResor

Жыл бұрын

@@jameshobbs Those are Nice !

2 weeks.

stratosphere is my place for fender necks.

@landonbailey

Жыл бұрын

🎸👍

What do you expect from DIY stuff. Of course you will need to adjust some details to make it work. This is how DIY works.

You should have broke bad with the sandpaper. 5 minutes of sanding and it would have been a done deal.

For maybe a none-brand body it'd be worth moding the body a little to fit the neck. I'd never touch a neck given the finish. IMHO. There lot's of companies you can buy a nicer body from. Other than the top of the line companies like Fender, MJT, Warmoth, Stewmac...etc. I do wish you would've tried the truss rod Landon. But cool vid nevertheless, sir. Watch lots of your vids!

KUATO LIVES!

@landonbailey

Жыл бұрын

get your ass to mars

I was thinking about trying to build an Amazon partscaster. If there’s a body from this company it might fit. Then again, I also want to try luthierie-type stuff.

CNC machines! Eh?

Break out the sandpaper and just do it.

@michaelmillican5592

Жыл бұрын

I think a lot of these companies are making the heel a bit larger than the squire and fender necks. They figure that you can do a little sanding and make it fit.

@dugbert5

Жыл бұрын

@@michaelmillican5592 there’s always a bit of tolerance. He might have a tight body and a max tolerance neck. Also could just be a thick finish.

I am calling my next band the fret rockers. Naw, just a stupid comments for the alporhythm.

If you were willing to drill out the holes to accept the tuners, why weren't you willing to sand back some of the finish to get what would be a super nice tight neck pocket interface? What is the point of doing a mod video where you are so fussy about doing the wimpiest mods?

2 weeks! hahaha nice

Squier neck with no logo. They make most of them in China anyway. .

You shouldn't give up so easy. The neck didn't not fit because it was cheap, that's normal, and good, because then you can sand it a little and it will fit nice and tight. It's good to learn how to do that kind of stuff on low-cost parts, you should give it another go.

@landonbailey

10 ай бұрын

i didn't give up, I passed the work along to someone that was interested when they bought it :)

That looks like a neck. I paid about 35 bucks for two years ago made with slave labor in China. Perfectly good neck, but when I play it, you can hear the cries of oppression; some people might think that’s a good thing for like the blues but these are Chinese people crying and it’s kind of shreeky…

@chizorama

Жыл бұрын

Are you a salesman? Cuz I'm sold on Texas Twang with a side of Peking Shrieking for that sweet & sour tone...

Why Landon? You already knew it would be junk

@landonbailey

Жыл бұрын

youtube bucket list. they make us do it.

@scott4482

Жыл бұрын

@@landonbailey ok, I guess that explains a lot

The good, the bad and the ugly

@landonbailey

Жыл бұрын

I'm the ugly!

You kind look like Drake from Drake and josh

🤘🤣

It is naive to think that a wooden neck of any kind will be "plug-n-play". Guitars are made of wood are require careful fitment at neck pocket area, otherwise the most important joint in terms of sound will erase the test objective. So Landon, having no skill to do it properly and having no understanding that is has to be fitted properly, you wasted your time.

Landon Bailey...make no mistake...you ''lost'' a long time ago and not just ''in this case''....

@landonbailey

6 ай бұрын

you'll have to be more specific what you're referring to. this video was a while ago

Lando, i know your into cheep necking already. If youd like to step it up to more engaging, gratuitous necking; then I'd like you to give Klos or a contemporary 200-300 buck carbon jobber a try. Youd be one of the first voices to review a reneck from the standpoint of someone marginally competent but not a luthier. Strong odds that whatever youd say would be impactful. Do it before AI steals all your clicks.

Thanks for making this video. I’m sure it’s gonna help a lot of us guitar enthusiast 😎🎸🦯✌🏽💙👍🏽