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I have always lusted for a vintage mustang but I'm fucking poor (gee, man with all the shit you sell how can you be poor? pedals man pedals). I want to know how does the neck radius feels compare to a modern day mustang.


I know the vintage musicmaster has the same neck. The point being said is that there's a vintage musicmaster in my area (about 30-50 miles) for cheap that has a extra bridge pickup that I might want to pick up but should just want to know the radius feel.

I had a CIJ mustang that I sold but I was young back then and didn't understand pickup heights and stuff that I wouldn't had sold it.

The '66 Mustang I had felt totally different from anything I've picked up in a store since. If you're just asking about radius, it was rounder across the fretboard. It was thinner all around. I loved it. Newer ones I've tried have felt more clunky.

What model was your CIJ? Some of them have those 70s teeny baby ankle necks at the nut and some are pretty chunky. I think most are narrow, like 41mm at the nut.

My '66 is chunky + narrow. Love it. Needs new frets tho!

MechaGodzilla wrote:What model was your CIJ? Some of them have those 70s teeny baby ankle necks at the nut and some are pretty chunky. I think most are narrow, like 41mm at the nut.

My '66 is chunky + narrow. Love it. Needs new frets tho!

My cij was a 69. It was chunky.

Depends on which width it is. A necks are narrow as can be and not cowboy-chord friendly for most hands. The B neck is the chunky one as y’all are phrasing it. The mij/cij stuff seems to be modeled after the B. Both my jagstang and ‘69 reissue had the same neck as my 1969 competition mustang.

Some necks have a brightness and some are darker. Doesn’t seem consistent to year or whether they’re pre or post CBS. For the record I have a 64 and 69 stang, a 72 and 68 musicmaster. I have owned a few japanese reissues as well.

iamthesnow wrote:Depends on which width it is. A necks are narrow as can be and not cowboy-chord friendly for most hands. The B neck is the chunky one as y’all are phrasing it. The mij/cij stuff seems to be modeled after the B. Both my jagstang and ‘69 reissue had the same neck as my 1969 competition mustang.

Some necks have a brightness and some are darker. Doesn’t seem consistent to year or whether they’re pre or post CBS. For the record I have a 64 and 69 stang, a 72 and 68 musicmaster. I have owned a few japanese reissues as well.

How does the musicmaster neck feel on yours? The guitar I'm looking at is 78 fender musicmaster.

It is a solid neck overall. They tend to be glossy but that never bugged me much. There could be finish issues but that is just CBS, hah.

Otherwise I have always wondered how close a vintage set of pickups in a japanese guitar would get. If it’s cheap enough they’re hard to say no to though. My only concern would be how well the pickup routing was done.