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Post by Frank on Aug 22, 2014 23:16:39 GMT
So I'm looking to buy a replacement neck for one of my Strats. Nice one on eBay, Custom Shop, £400 but it's a "60s NOS" and I don't want skinny frets, narrow nut width and a 7.25 inch radius.
To be on the safe side, I sent the seller a message asking for the nut width and fingerboard radius.
He told me the nut is 4mm wide.
He doesn't know what I mean by fingerboard radius.
Bear in mind this is a Fender Custom Shop Strat neck from a guitar costing a very large amount of money. And he doesn't know the basic dimensions of it. I therefore conclude that eBay (and by extension the guitar world in general) is full of amateurish idiots with more money than sense.
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Post by Tony on Aug 23, 2014 8:09:27 GMT
A 4mm nut. What's the string spacing like on that?  Using .2s? Have you checked out Musikraft? They have really good prices and do excellent custom shop work. I do have a feeling that you want an actual Fender neck though in this situation. |
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Post by Frank on Aug 23, 2014 8:29:38 GMT
I've never seen a Musikraft heard good things about them though. This one's got to be a Fender though. That F-word on the headstock costs a lot of money though. And I want at least a 5mm nut, ideally 6.
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Post by Tony on Aug 23, 2014 9:07:51 GMT
I've never seen a Musikraft heard good things about them though. This one's got to be a Fender though. That F-word on the headstock costs a lot of money though. And I want at least a 5mm nut, ideally 6. Why not just get a decal of the F word? |
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Post by Frank on Aug 23, 2014 10:41:29 GMT
Ugh. Decals are for kiddies who buy a Squier Affinity and want to pretend it's a Custom Shop.
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Post by Davemc on Aug 23, 2014 20:13:43 GMT
I dunno about "everyone", but it always bemuses me how often anything which is run as an auction ends up getting bid up higher than you can get one new for. Often which is being sold on Ebay and which can be found using the exact same search terms (i.e. it's just below it in the listings, at least it is the way I search on Ebay). I don't get it. It's either idiocy or tons of shill bidding...
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Post by Frank on Aug 23, 2014 21:40:40 GMT
Right now I'd bid over the new price for a US made Fender Dimension bass. Those things are rare as rocking horse shit in this country.
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Post by Davemc on Aug 24, 2014 18:49:00 GMT
Oh yeah if it's something which is rare that's different. I'm talking about readily-available stuff.
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Post by MDV on Mar 23, 2015 0:11:25 GMT
I therefore conclude that eBay (and by extension the guitar world in general) is full of amateurish idiots with more money than sense. You're figuring this out now? Idiots with more money than sense is the very foundation of the guitar industry. |
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Post by Davemc on Mar 23, 2015 16:41:21 GMT
^ It's the foundation of capitalism, surely? Not to overgeneralise or anything. |
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Post by MDV on Mar 24, 2015 6:48:26 GMT
Spot on, sir. Spot fucking on.
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Post by Davemc on Mar 24, 2015 14:53:45 GMT
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Post by Frank on Mar 25, 2015 19:03:12 GMT
My point is why own a £2000 guitar if you don't know the first thing about it? Another example, some drooling moron on the Fender forum one time had bought a Jeff Beck Stratocaster "to learn on". Now I don't know about you but I learnt to play on a shitty acoustic with an action like a cheesegrater. Who spends that much money on a first guitar? WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE?
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Post by Davemc on Mar 28, 2015 9:59:32 GMT
If you have it, why not?
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Post by Frank on Mar 28, 2015 17:06:34 GMT
Lots of reasons. I've found that people who take up guitar later in life rarely get to be any good and generally lose interest quite rapidly. Why have a £1500 guitar gathering dust under the bed when you could have a Squier doing the same job? Why not learn on a reasonably playable instrument then spend the big money when a) you know you're not going to give up in three months and b) you have some idea of what you want from an instrument? Makes no sense to me to have a Custom Shop instrument, play cowboy chords on it for three months then leave it to rust. Buy a Squier. |
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Using .2s?
