I went into a shop a couple of months back and they had this rather nice looking Stat MIM body, routed for a Floyd Rose and I just had to buy it to make up a partscaster.
I decided gold would be rather nice on it, so I got a Schaller Floyd Rose and straplocks for it; I'll probably get a black pickguard and put in a pair of Seymour Duncan SH2N/SH4 humbuckers I have.
However, I'm having trouble getting a neck to fit!
The neck pocket is slightly narrower than a standard Fender and it has a squared end rather than the normal shallow curve; it's 4-screw with micro-tilt.
I'd like a Fender maple 22-fret one and I've got a set of gold Fender 2-pin machines and also the Schaller locking nut (not sure of width, but I'll get another if needs be).
Can anybody advise what spec of neck I need to get to fit there?
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https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mighty-Mite-Ebony-Neck-Floyd-Rose-Cut/263552990585?hash=item3d5cfb7d79:g:eiIAAOSwDqlaq6H~
Not genuine Fender, but a genuine neck with locking nuts will cost you a fortune.
It might be advised you take it to a tech, but personally a minimal amount of sanding to increase the pocket size by a mm or taking a tiny amount off the heel of the neck each side - I'd do it, even if it's not great practice.
Allparts 22 fret neck, rosewood fingerboard, 12" radius, jumbo frets. Drilled for top-mounted FR clamp shelf and replica Kluson tuners. I have gold plated Klusons, string tension bar and an R3 string clamp.
I have no other use for the gold parts. Make me an offer for the job lot.
Ideally I'd like a real Fender neck, a maple one would look good. (I recently bought a Tele one for another project for £125; funnily enough, that's what I went into the shop looking for when I bought this body instead, but that day I ended up with two bodies needing necks!)
I hadn't spotted that MM neck; I might go for it, or just buy it anyway. I've got an MM fretless neck on a P-bass and it's rather good.
https://www.zzounds.com/item--FEN1144712
(Fender started putting "Mickey Mouse ear" corners in the pockets of the Mex standard line Strats a few years back - looks like they've just refined it a bit.)
The one in your link is curved, like the neck(s) I have.
https://stratosphereparts.com/2017-fender-standard-stratocaster-strat-body-guitar-parts-alder-candy-apple-red/
Apparently the neck was on a guitar in The Blues Brothers movie - not sure if it's true or not, but that's what the bloke who sold it to me said (after I'd paid him).
The edge of the nut nearer the bridge will become the leading edge of the platform on which the FR string clamp will sit. On the Fender MIM neck, the area available for the string clamp to sit on appears to be the width of the fingerboard x approximately 7mm. The undersurface of the FR clamp is 15mm. Approximately half of the clamp will not be properly supported.
Fender locking machineheads would remove the need for a clamp but the nut slots still need to be well cut. Even with this done, extreme divebombing vibrato stunts are likely to send the guitar out of tune.
I've got a couple of other partscasters:
One with a MIM body and a Warmoth neck (really good!).
One with a Levinson Blade neck and a cheap Warman body (work in progress).
I've just about finished a Tele too, which has a MIM body and MIM neck; again I saw the body and bought it, and then went for a matching Fender neck.
I'm also working on a Tokai; I'll see where that takes me!
For this thread's Strat, I'd like to put a blonde 22-fret Fender neck on it (and I have a set of 2-pin machines to fit).
Ideally, I guess, I'd like a Floyd-ready neck.
As I mentioned, I bought the body without thinking about the details of the neck, so now I'm having to!
I found this picture of a Mighty Mite one cut for a Floyd nut.