Replacement neck thoughts

[Thumpalumpacus]

I think of sliding as orthogonal to bending. In jazz I do lots of sliding (up and down into notes, up and down out of notes) -- more sliding than bending. Tall frets are like speedbumps when it comes to sliding. I'd suggest something like a medium jumbo as a compromise fret size -- not too tall.

Yeah, I can't stand 6100s and the like. I play several different styles, including slide, and huge frets do none of them any favors. Even for blues, I'd rather work a little harder with smaller frets.

[Joelhas10fingers]

Thanks everyone for weighing in. I'm going to spend a couple weeks with a set of 10's to see how that works and feels. It will give me enough time to obsess over the Warmoth and USACG sites to make a reasonable decision


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[Naquat]

One thing to consider with Warmoth necks is that they need leveling and crowning. I believe they tell you this on their site (at least they used to) so you need to take those costs into consideration. I've read that the USAG necks may not need as much work to make them play their best.

[mr. beaumont]

One thing to consider with Warmoth necks is that they need leveling and crowning. I believe they tell you this on their site (at least they used to) so you need to take those costs into consideration. I've read that the USAG necks may not need as much work to make them play their best.

Not true, have two Warmoth's necks on guitars (a tele and a jazzmaster) and the fretwork was excellent.

[Naquat]

Not true, have two Warmoth's necks on guitars (a tele and a jazzmaster) and the fretwork was excellent.

Read the bottom of the page.

Warmoth Custom Guitar Parts - Fret Work

Your experience has obviously been different than mine as I've had at least 6 necks from Warmoth and they all needed to have the frets slightly leveled and polished. None were good to go out of the box.

[lammie200]

My Musikraft neck came all polished up and I assume leveled. The dual action truss rod adjustment comes into play, but my test stringing resulted in no buzzing anywhere. Hope to have the guitar finished soon. Just pick up wire and jack hookups left. Then pick guard, control plate mounting, stringing and setup, and relegating another guitar to its case so I can have this one out. I am psyched.

[mr. beaumont]

Read the bottom of the page.

Warmoth Custom Guitar Parts - Fret Work

Your experience has obviously been different than mine as I've had at least 6 necks from Warmoth and they all needed to have the frets slightly leveled and polished. None were good to go out of the box.

Interesting. Do you like in a vastly different cimate from where Warmoth makes their necks?

[Naquat]

Interesting. Do you like in a vastly different cimate from where Warmoth makes their necks?

I used to live in the N.E. so it's possible the cross country trip had something to do with it.