Musikraft vs Warmoth for necks?

[Swordfishtrombone]

I'll be ordering a new neck for my Jaguar by the end of the year, and I'm not sure which one to go with. The stock one is fine, but I find that fatter necks are much better for my wrist. Gonna either go for the regular fat C that they have or the SRV profile. Not sure which, but I'll most likely be going with the latter since the couple SRV strats that I decided to check at GC seemed to fit my hand really well. I just don't know who to order from. I ran it thru the build-a-neck thing on both sites, and it comes out about the same (maybe like $20 less for Musikraft), so that's not an issue here. Anyone tried necks from both companies? Would one be any better than the other? I know both are meant to be good, but I wanna get some more input before going for this.

[doommeow]

I've never had a good experience with Warmoth. Buy from Musikraft

[Swordfishtrombone]

Hmm alright. What was actually wrong with the Warmoth experiences? Not doubting what you said or anything, just curious about what's wrong with them.

[mws]

I got a Jaguar neck from Musikraft, SS frets, 1/4 sawn, V to C profile. It's great. The profile is just chunky enough for my tastes, the V isn't very pronounced. It came ready to play, no fretwork necessary. It also fit the neck pocket of my Warmoth Mustang body perfectly. No experience with Warmoth necks, though.

[ThurberMingus]

This thread is relavent to my interests.

[skullservant]

I've bought I think 3 necks from Warmoth? The 4th is on it's way. I haven't had a bad transaction with them. They don't take paypal, so just be warned. I bought showcase necks the 3 other times that I ordered before this custom one that is being made right now. The only thing that I didn't like about one of the necks that I ordered is when I had ordered a nitro finish on it, they put the frets on first (which I guess is understandable), but then the nitro was all over the frets and I had to polish them to get it off

[UglyCasanova]

I love my Warmoth neck. Never tried a Musikraft one though.

[mws]

That Warmoth looks sweeeeet.

To complicate things further, I just got a USA Custom Guitars neck in the mail today. Also fucking awesome. Similar specs to my Musikraft Jag neck, but I got a fatter version of their '54 contour, which is a bit of a V to C, compound radius 7.5 to 9.5. Tommy there was great to deal with, he used wood I had mailed to him with no issues. Seems like you can't really go wrong

[kosta]

I've had good experience with Warmoth necks, but I've installed and done all of the fretwork myself on the two that I've used. May try a USACG body and neck for my next build just to see how they are.

[ancientbones]

I got a custom warmoth neck for a jazzmaster build that I haven't had time to finish. Fits the body I got from MJT perfectly snug though.

Not sure if it's a normal thing with this stuff but I had to drill out the tuner holes a little more to put the bushings in. That was kind of annoying.

[ChannelingHemingway]

I have a B&B jag neck from Warmoth that I'm pretty happy with. The profile feels great ('59 roundback) and the inlay work is spot-on. The frets need a bit of dressing but I feel like that'll be a thing no matter who you order from. I'll be shooting nitro when it warms up (...in 5 months ).

I've ordered a body from USACG and had no issues there either. But necks are more fiddly, so that's probably not the most relevant endorsement.

The only thing that I didn't like about one of the necks that I ordered is when I had ordered a nitro finish on it, they put the frets on first (which I guess is understandable), but then the nitro was all over the frets and I had to polish them to get it off

Was it maple/maple? I'm pretty sure that's how Fender used to do theirs: fret before finishing, and then dress the frets afterwards. I used to have a USA strat that definitely had poly on the sides of the frets.

Hawt. Raw canary?

[UglyCasanova]

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