Best Strat neck Replacement

[wavey63]

Any opinions on the best strat copy neck for feel and price? I am building a parts strat and am trying to keep it CHEAP with good quality. It helps that I had most of the parts laying around!!!Thanks guys!

[testing1two]

I think USA Custom Guitars is probably the favorite around here with Warmoth a close second. I happen to like Musikraft but there are some threads here that rate them as hit or miss (I had a good experience so I can't really speak to that).

[Boris Bubbanov]

Originally Posted by testing1two

I think USA Custom Guitars is probably the favorite around here with Warmoth a close second.

I would agree with that. If Allparts has exactly what you need you could do that, but if you are trying to build something you'll wanna keep, I'd go USA Custom Guitars. I'll bet there's 5 Strat necks on their web page, very reasonably priced, at this moment in time.

I've had real good luck with all my Warmoths (except one I'm not sure of yet), but the USACGs I have are, as a group, better sounding.

[Eagle1]

Warmoth is the one for me ,I find them to be very constant .
the single vintage rod sounds a little better but is not as seasonally stable as the standard Warmoth pro (double rod.)
The USCG necks are good as well.

[Berlebster]

I Asked a friend to get a serious , nice neck from Paris , yeah he came with this flamedmaple with Ebony fingerboard 1963 Strat replica WARMOTH . top quality but not the cheapest. But i am very pleased .

[Mike9]

If you want "cheap", but good quality Allparts is the way to go. However you didn't stipulate what exactly you're looking for:

Maple, or rosewood,
Fret size - vintage, medium, or jumbo,
Back profile - fat, medium, or thin,
Nut width,
With, or without a nut,
Tuner ream - Kluson, Grover, Sperzel, etc.
Finish, or no finish

Warmoth will do a nut, give you fret size of your choice and ream to your specs. USACG doesn't do nuts, neither does Musikraft. If you want a neck with a nut it's either Fender, Warmoth, or MightyMite. You need to narrow it down some.

If you want a straight up maple/rosewood MIM Fender medium "C" with medium fret neck with nut and tuners I have one I can part with. It's in excellent condition too - PM me if interested.

[buddastrat]

Well I'm patiently awaiting my Dan Ransom neck. he builds it from scratch. I've seen some work of his and it's amazing. I've used USA and Warmoth with pretty good results. the easiest way is to buy a Fender neck on the bay and bolt it up. It'll have the nut, and possibly tuners. Some are very cheap.