Product: Allparts SMO Neck
Price Paid: US $115.00
Submitted
01/23/2006
at
02:07pm
by
Dave
Features
:
No Opinion
This is a Stratocaster style replacement neck. My guess is that it was made in Japan. It's a maple with a maple fretboard, one piece, with walnut skunk stripe for truss rod insertion, the adjustment of which is done at the heel end. 22 jumbo frets. 1-5/8" nut width. 12" fretboard radius. Standard black dot fret markers. Small Strat headstock shape. Unfinished, unstained. "Licensed by Fender" burned into the heel.
Sound
:
No Opinion
Action, Fit, & Finish
:
8
The neck was pretty thick for my tastes. I like the Ibanez Wizards. Allparts said I could take it down 1/16" so I did and it feels better to me now. Finish wise, I used no stain. I like the whiteish color of the maple. I just put some wipe-on water based poly. 3 or 4 coats, nothing major. The frets were done pretty well. I had to level a couple of trouble spots. I installed it on a 1978 Strat with 3-bolt "Micro-Tilt" neck attachment. The great thing about this neck is that at the heel, the truss rod adjustment is installed very close to the fretboard, leaving me enough depth to drill a hole for that third middle bolt. I also cut my own shelf for a Floyd Rose lock nut. Yes, my old Strat was retrofitted with a Floyd Rose.
Reliability/Durability
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No Opinion
Customer Support
:
10
They helped with my question about how much I could sand off the neck profile.
Overall Rating
:
8
I've been playing 27 years. I have a bunch of Ibanez guitars. This Strat was my first good guitar early on & I needed a new neck but didn't want to go with Warmoth. I'm glad I didn't. These are good necks, and not so expensive that I would hesitate to modify it to my tastes. A thinner neck profile would've been nice but I realize most Strat players don't go for the thin necks.
