My Ebay China Neck has landed

[Kapo_Polenton]

In true Chinese vendor Ebay style, the neck is slightly different than pictured and he never sent me a Pic before sending like the listing said. Mine has abalone dots vs standard black and I kind of wanted traditional for what i have in mind. That said, some builders try to upsell that as a feature so I guess I can live with it? . For 120$ canadian, I'm happy with it.

Neck seems straight, fret work according to my fret rocker seems level, fret ends are rounded though a few could use a touch up. I somehow missed that it had a gloss finish like a lot of necks but the thing is very well done. I can live with it as my YJM strat has that finish and I don't sweat in my hands. All in all I'd say it's pretty damn nice for the price and just as a Neck really. No idea of the contour or shape, feels Fender strat like. You'd need to shave it down if you wanted Charvel.

 

[Kapo_Polenton]

I saw this custom shop build recently and thought it might be cool to do something similar in black nitro..this neck would look cool minus all the relic work...

 

[BesaMoogie]

That‘s a nice one, I‘ve seen worse coming from china

 

[gbsmusic]

It looks great nice flame to it also. Congrats I say you scored big time! Can you post their shop from eBay I might be interested. Thanks

 

[SpiderWars]

That looks great. I'm sitting here doing the frets/fret ends and fretboard edges on my Warmoth that just arrived. Hard to photo due to reflections. There were two and a half slightly high frets on it but easily fixed.

 

[Kapo_Polenton]

That looks great. I'm sitting here doing the frets/fret ends and fretboard edges on my Warmoth that just arrived. Hard to photo due to reflections. There were two and a half slightly high frets on it but easily fixed.

Nice. When you have say 3 or 4 frets that need to come down, do you sand the whole fretboard with a block to make it level or just use a file on the frets that need it and then do a crowning after ? I'm just getting started tinkering with this stuff and I think in the case of a few frets high, I'd sooner just sand them down vs whole board.

I think if anything, I'm going to polish the frets on mine as it feels like there is not as much to do as I was expecting.

 

[Kapo_Polenton]

It looks great nice flame to it also. Congrats I say you scored big time! Can you post their shop from eBay I might be interested. Thanks

Gaoguofu is the seller I got this one from. Looks to have quite a variety to pick from though no banana headstock which I'd like as my next one. Banana/hockey reverse headstock with an ebony board would be la bomba on a candy apple red H S body.

 

[SpiderWars]

Nice. When you have say 3 or 4 frets that need to come down, do you sand the whole fretboard with a block to make it level or just use a file on the frets that need it and then do a crowning after ? I'm just getting started tinkering with this stuff and I think in the case of a few frets high, I'd sooner just sand them down vs whole board.

I think if anything, I'm going to polish the frets on mine as it feels like there is not as much to do as I was expecting.

I use the Stewmac micro mesh soft touch pads. The most coarse pads in that pack will remove wood/nickel pretty easily and by the time you get to the most fine grit pads in that pack you are essentially buffing. So you have good control over how much you remove. I just fret-rock the whole thing and mark anything high with a Sharpie. Then when I go over that marked fret I start with a more coarse grit (never the most coarse one) but finish the same. I just tape off each fret as I go, reusing the tape a few times. And I'm fret-rocking the completed frets as I go just to make sure. Takes me a bit of time and those pads are stupid expensive...and they will get trashed. Filled with metal. But its less risk for people like me.

Oh and I use a fret end file to knock the bottom corners off. But I don't do much with it. Literally two passes per fret corner is all it takes.