What are the best Telecaster necks you can buy? any good?
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- Looking for a good Telecaster neck? Check out Warmoth! They make some of the best necks available and they're very reasonable in price too. In this video, we'll discuss some of the best Warmoth Telecaster neck choices you can buy and give you some tips on how to choose the right one for you.
If you're looking for a custom guitar neck with inlays, Warmoth is the place to go! They have a wide selection of Telecaster necks that are sure to fit your needs. Be sure to check out this video to find the perfect neck for your guitar!
Today, there are many companies making compatible guitar necks, and some could be argued as 'better' than the Fender originals. One company, Warmoth has been making Fender licensed necks for a very long time and their level of expertise today exceeds that maybe even of Fender Musical Instruments! Of course, that IS subjective.
In this video I present a replacement Fender Telecaster neck made by Warmoth with many features that original Fender necks simply don't have. I show many customized features, the wood, custom sized frets, compound radius of the electric guitar neck, an 'Earvana' compensated nut and mention its advantages, and many other aspects including the Telecaster heel design.
Overall, in this video see a warmoth Fender Licensed electric guitar Telecaster neck that includes many custom features. When you fit this Warmoth neck (it just bolts on!) you will undoubtedly be using one of the finest guitar necks available today.
I have spent considerable time creating this video and note that it's not sponsored in any way. The video is a reflection of my experience to date of specifying, ordering and receiving a custom Warmoth neck licensed by Fender.
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I love Warmoth and have bought several. The last one I bought was 680 dollars, but worth every penny. It’s a custom shop masterpiece.
Yes they are expensive (even more now over in the UK with shipping etc.) but generally you know what you are getting. Thanks for watching.
Hello Tony, Hope you're doing well. That is a very good quality neck. When you get that project completed it will be just like a Fender Custom Shop but you will make just for you. I will bet that when you are done she will turn out great. Stay safe and well and keep Rocking. Signed John ( Zepbass) Gregory, from Munster Indiana. U.S.A.
Indiana wants me - lord I can't go back there :) Trust you're OK John. I just had to throw that in because I know little about the place sadly. I did make over the years a couple of telecasters (actually three but I sold one) and they came out really well. This one is likely to be the best result though of them all and I have spent time on thinking about this one. Getting the parts as I needed them is pretty hard currently, but hopefully it will work out. Other telecasters are: ruclips.net/video/pVC0GejXkwU/видео.html and ruclips.net/video/ZgE1yzYft-k/видео.html the blue one has a very refined sound really unlike a telecaster - played here: ruclips.net/video/q9J6A9uSDGo/видео.html and hope you like it all. Thanks for watching and maybe someday I'll visit Indiana :)
Great video again Tony!
I have some very good subjects coming up... starting to make them now... thanks for watching.
Great neck Tony, the one on the guitar is good too :-) Thank you for your concern for us folks here in Sarasota. It was a heck of a storm but luckily we got through it with the loss of a few roof tiles, a bit of a leak, some damage to the pool screen and no power for a few days.. Some poor buggers fared much, much worse. Thanks again for the shout out, it was very nice of you mate :-)
Yes you guys were on my mind for sure.... thanks...
Good job. Thank you, Tony
Very welcome and thanks for watching!
Lucked up and found a used fender neck at a yard sale in very good condition for a total of 2 pounds here in the UK.
Well at £2 I'll have 100 - tell me when you can deliver :) - you are lucky I NEVER found stuff like that, all the ones I ever found cheap were Chinese and really way out from the specs. Well spotted. Thanks for watching.
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Was the only one they had ' I paid 75 pounds for it and it was a total weight of 2 pounds.
Hello,thank you for the video!🙂
Any time - check my channel for other stuff and thanks for watching.
By 8:06 I had to return to say Warmoth to me are better than any major Guitar maker.Period.I have several of their creations and every one I bought is because of you Tony.What I saw you make over the years inspired me.And now I have several OutStanding over the top Guitars and Bass's that rival the very top creators of beutique instruments costing house money !Nothing against them at all ,and not sour grapes either.But when I placed the newest Stratocaster neck in the Warmoth Body It was press fit and all but vacume sealed on seating ! No truss rod adjustment needed at all.Perfect.
You know, HG it's exactly why I made those videos of those guitar builds. I too have bought many 'brand' guitars and I really like them too, but when I sit back, look at the Warmoth ones I completed (I still have nearly all of them) I am still surprised at how good they are - and certainly up there with the 'branded' guitars. The Warmoth neck pocket fit is great and I too have not seen a bad one. A long time ago some of the fret ends were not perfect, but that has been rectified many years ago and they are basically playable as supplied. Thanks for posting your opinion on the Warmoth stuff too because every real post helps many other guys to make informed decisions - which somehow helps us all.
Another review of a company that I have kept eyeballing for quite some while, haha! This is not helping me avoid ordering something from them, so thanks! And it had to be birdseye maple, something that I've custom ordered on Carvins and G&Ls and love it, it's what makes my EVH Wolfgang so nice ...
Glad you liked the review. The birds eye maple I too have bought before - some far more figured, but with those you can 'feel' the figuring as you play. With this one theres little to feel like that so that was a reason for the less figured neck. Wait until you see the body ... :) Thanks for watching.
Kool neck Tony, has the making of a great guitar project.
Waiting for the other 'important bit' and even in low resolution it looks awesome :)... I won't spoil it, best to see it when it gets here... I'm really hoping to create the best Telecaster I have. I have two others, but both are not originally intended to be like original telecasters in tone. I'm at a crossroads right now on the tone for this one so any suggestions about that from anyone and I'm all ears :)... Thanks for watching.
I bought a Warmoth roasted maple neck last year. Compound radius with ss frets. Outside of my very expensive PRS signature guitar. Its the nicest playing neck I've ever owned. And a bonus feature is, because it's roasted maple, the neck doesn't require any finish at all! It cost me $350 but it was more than worth it IMHO.
Thats a good price for a roasted maple I think (but remember I'm in the UK where it's all more expensive than the USA with that shipping etc.). Thanks for the post and how you found Warmoth too!
that neck is gorgeous
Wait until you see the other bit :) watch this space and thanks for watching.
I just don't jive with the 9.5 radius...so I built a Warmoth with a 12 inch radius.
Great neck Tony.
The 9.5 radius came from the guy that left PRS and set up his own company... a very good guitar company and the 9.5 (might have been 9.25 or thereabouts) he said solved the choking out. I threw that in the video because I had not heard that one before. 12 inch will absolutely solve it :) Thanks for watching.
Hello Tony I just received my Warmoth neck and it is incredible! Wish I could send you a pic. Great quality!
Please do! you can go to my website and fill in the form and Then you will know my email address :)... I'd love to see it. Thanks.
That's a really nice neck you bought from Warmoth. Looking forward to seeing the finished product.
I bought a one piece mahogany tele body from them a couple of years back. It's got an hsh configuration and once everything was finished it sounds amazing! It cost a couple of thousand pounds like you said but nothing else comes close. 🙂
Yes building in this way does often cost more to do but for me that time (and having the skills) would be important. I have finished a couple of guitars and getting it right - well I could not compete with guys like Warmoth... so I don't! :) Finding the 'right' parts for you is the secret to it all IMO and its harder than many might think. Just slap on a neck, fit any old pickups and away you go - NOT! In fact, before I order anything I build the guitar with specific components and then I know what the result will be near enough. Sometimes I'll even use parts that I have used before (spec wise) but that's not always the case. Good to know yours came out great - and ultimately that is all that matters. Thanks for watching.
I enjoyed it that much I did a 4 year course on luthiery haha! Hopefully get round to building another guitar soon. Been pondering building a walnut guitar. Have a body blank waiting to be cut out. Yep, it'll be a Tele shape. My favourite style. 😀
@@MichaelSkillingI have an ‘84 Stratocaster Elite that is made from Walnut and it is shockingly heavy. It has to be one of the heaviest Strats ever made by Fender ( it’s about 11.25 lbs), roughly 5 kgs. It’s a back breaker to play standing up for more than 60 minutes at a time. So be aware, a solid walnut guitar requires a very good strap and/or a very strong back.
I swear by Warmoth. Necks, parts, pickguards, bodies. Anyone doing their first build should use them. You'll get high quality parts at a good price.
Musikraft is another good aftermarket licensed neck manufacturer. I like them because I can order something like a Tele or Strat neck in a 2pc w/ no skunk-stripe or truss rod plug in any combo of neck/fretboard material and they tend to have the highest number of options out there. If you're a player who likes necks with a profile, radius and fret size combination that isn't common...they probably do it. I've never had to compromise what I want in specs and appearance with them.
I stumbled across them years ago when I wanted a 2pc flame maple neck, hard V, 12" radius and slightly wider nut.
Hey thanks for posting about Musikraft - its all good when anyone does a great job and sounds like worth checking to me... thanks for watching...
@@tonymckenziecom Thanks for your videos Tony! Stumbled across your channel a few months back, I've been very interested in the Epi SG custom and I loved the review. It was far and away the best one I watched.
Your approach to gear is very much like mine own. Here's the good...here's the bad...no BS.
Thanks again!
It's a real kick to collect all the components to build a quality instrument
Ultimately when it's completed the result should be a really cool guitar and far cheaper than when I would consider a prebuilt form most. Thanks for watching.
I love your videos !!!!!!!!!
Thanks HG
Excellent info!! I should have learned this many years ago. You should talk more about why you may or may not want a 22 fret neck. Also please talk about the difference between maple and rosewood fret board thing. Is there really that big of a difference??
Very good points - I often just adlib and sometimes I miss stuff off like that... but maybe I'll go and compare things in a different video. Thanks for watching and jogging my thoughts re the variables in that way...
Nice job Tony…warmoth makes great stuff…good job going with 22 frets…only thing is I need fret markers!!!
It isn't a little thing .🎸
Yes I always laughed when Roy Buchannan went off the end of his neck right across to the bridge :) If you never saw it you have to find the video... just incredible guy. The markers I think will make a great 'excuse' next time I fret it wrong when playing :) ... Thanks...
What... you have seen it! :)
Took way too long for the reveal! Anyway, the answer to the question about who makes the best necks is “Musikraft”, but that Warmoth is very nice too! 😉
Ha subjective a bit but Musicraft are fine too I agree... and thanks for watching...
Glad you’re happy with it. Do you know the Nashville trick to fix intonation ? Don’t need a fancy nut or anything,basically free and the simplest thing to do
Nope... spill the beans :)
Awesome, love it. What nut width did you choose,? I missed that, thank you
Drat I forgot to say it! Well spotted... it is: 1-11/16" (43mm) - Modern Medium so I just stayed safe :) great point and thanks for asking... and for watching too.
Warmoth Boat Neck on my Telecaster and it really is excellent. Only a masochist doesn't use fretboard markers.
Ha ... now where is that whip... (is that the right way around?) well there are markers on there but when I'm playing you won't see them... (darn, hope I do). I also have a Warmoth 'boat neck' and when I ordered it there was 'doubt' about the size, but in reality, it's a very nice feeling neck and not like what someone might think. So I agree with you on that. But generally, I like the thin one as this is... thanks for watching.
@@tonymckenziecom hahaha. I've been playing rather seriously for over 40yrs and I need those markers! Yeah, the boat neck is incredibly comfortable and not a huge baseball bat in my hands. I've played a couple of big necks in my day that were very uncomfortable, an old friends 1962 (?) Les Paul/SG, same as Jimi's; huge and horrible in my opinion, not ergonomic at all.
I priced Warmoth necks....found out I could buy a complete Fender Limited Edition Player Telecaster for the ~same price. They are out of their fargin' minds! The one I was looking at was not custom, it was "in stock", $685 and they still wanted +$27 for a Corian (plastic) nut and $105-145 to put ANY finish on it?!?! Seriously? For ~$685 it should already have finish, and diamonds for fret markers, and a nut made from Unicorn Ivory! It should come with a brand new Fender Telecaster...and it does indeed, if you buy it from the right place (Fender).
That's a fair point, but there are differences for sure. And Warmoth CAN make a unique custom neck... Fender I guess could, but then you might be saying Fender are out of it? Interesting point though and thanks for watching.
Except the one I was looking at was not custom, it was "in stock", $685 and they still wanted +$27 for a Corian (plastic) nut and $105-145 to put ANY finish on it?!?! Seriously? For ~$685 it should already have a nut made from Unicorn Ivory! For $712 (+ the nut) well, it should come with a brand new Fender Telecaster...and it does, if you buy it from the right place (Fender).
Another great video, Tony. See, I never expected to get a Tele, but it became my main practice guitar. Why? When I went to stores and tried all sorts of guitars, it proved the most comfy + simplest for a beginner. I can palm mute with great ease. There is good string spacing, not too narrow. Mine is a Player Plus with 12" neck, rolled edges, wonderful feel. Do the stacked humbuckers have enough output? No, but it is a tremendous learning tool. I would love a Jem in the future and on paper a WOlfgang Special would be a better fit for me than a Tele but I have not been able to try one.
A JEM can tear your head off :) I have a 7VWH original Japanese and that has high output pickups. Telecasters can be made to do what you want in one from my experience. The comfort IS important and if you have the cut aways (arm and belly) those help greatly. But the pickups are key. I have used blade type, strat neck standard and humbucker, blade bridge and standard, noiseless (as added to the other parts of this guitar I recently completed) and other stuff. I play rock so I'm biased towards heavier pickups but even the standard tele ones have a place... check this tele I made some years back: ruclips.net/video/ZgE1yzYft-k/видео.html that is using a blade type of pickup setup. Those are Dimarzio Pro Track and Fast Track pickups... Thanks for watching.
Excellent neck!!
Yes I think it offers good quality and the differing options create a decent neck... thanks for watching...
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I'm building a Warmoth Telecaster right now.
tell me how it all turns out ;-)
Tony my friend you are one of my favorite guys on the internet. By the way, How is your Marshall JVM JS doing? Are you playing it? Oh and by now you have seen the new REVV looks to be a Monster but the clean channel seems to be wanting.
Very kind... and appreciated comment. I have not checked the REVV amp out yet. and have not found one even in Dallas while here... but if I do find one I'll look close :). Thanks.
My luthier built custom Strat has a similar neck made by Musikraft, and i can't remember the exact price, but it was not cheap.
This was due to my requirement for a thin profile wide radius to suit my small hands and short fingers.
Standard Fender necks even 9.5 radius are like baseball bats to me, i know that they are now making 12" radius necks but they
are still too thick to play comfortably.
Your new Telecaster will have a great start, the most important part of any guitar is a neck that you are comfortable with.
We will have to wait and see what other choices you have made for the rest of the build.
Yes, they can be expensive. This one with a 16 to 10 radius seems (and feels) good so we shall see, it's the first compound radius neck I bought from Warmoth. The star of the show is actually the body :) and while I have made 'similar' coloring (or not) this body has a number of things that should be expected especially at the price, but in reality, we rarely see. I really want the body to get here but its still in production as I write. I have the pickups, a couple of bridges (which is also interesting), some pickups (that might change) but certainly locking tuners Fender type. Well, we shall see how it turns out. :) Thanks for watching.
@@tonymckenziecom I have 2 guitars with compound radius necks, the Eart E-3S has a modern U to C shape with a 9.5 to 14 radius. and luckily for me it is not too thick.
Your neck should be very comfortable to play.
The body will be here in it's own good time, this is the problem with ordering parts from around the world, there is always one that takes ages to arrive.
From start to finish my own custom Strat took about 18 months and that was before all the current issues in the supply chains.
I dread to think what it would cost to have made now.
This bulid will keep you busy during the winter months, just invest in some candles!
How do you find the 9.5 - 14 radius?
@@rdb9936 It took a while to adjust to, but now I find it very easy to play, perhaps if it started as a 10 it might be a bit less cramped at the first few frets.
@@Barbarapape Is it particularly noticeable in terms of radius change or not really? Are you able to get the string height more consistent across the board?
This is interesting because I'm after a strat neck with a 9.5 radius. Well tended smooth frets is what I'm after .Maybe a stock one as anything over $500 I'll have to lie to the family about the price.
Hi Robin, they do make loads of necks and the stock stuff in my experience has been fine. The fret work from Warmoth has improved very much so from when I started to buy their necks over 10 years ago. I have tried others, but I always either buy genuine Fender necks from stratosphereparts.com or I go to Warmoth. Hope it helps and neither of those companies has ever paid me to talk about them in any way... they are who I use. And thanks for watching.
@4:15 If I bought one myself, for that price, it would come with a free, complete Fender Telecaster attached to it. 😆
Ha BRILLIANT comment - I smiled immediately :) Thanks for that - I need it! and thanks for watching.
I bought a standard thin couple years ago, didn’t like the profile, which one is the C shape? Not a thick C, but the normal C
Well they have a lot of neck shapes at Warmoth, but if you go to the neck section, they do show you the lot and that is particularly useful. Hope it helps and thanks for watching.
Mike, I thought Warmoth didn’t do Nitro finishes, only polyester/acrylic and natural/ oiled finishes. Could be wrong but I believe that’s what I’ve heard.
I think you're right... I don't see nitro... maybe they had it at one stage... Thanks.
Tony , have you ever tried musickraft necks ? Just curious
I think I have had one only over the years - that does not mean they are problematic or anything like that. Maybe I should take another look at them. Thanks for the post and for watching.
If you could find a fender custom shop neck fully finish frets ,same figuring throughout neck your probably looking at 1800 + just the neck
Where to find them - even some of the signature necks are hard to find and they are going up and up from what I see. Thanks for the info and for watching.
Hello sir, 🙏 is it possible to get that guitar nut !? I'm from India.
Thank you ❤️
You can buy the nut even on ebay... :) Thanks
Tony, what is your favourite Warmoth profile and nut width combo?
Standard thin and I think 42-43mm
@@tonymckenziecom Interesting! Thanks! Have you tried either the SRV or 59 profiles? I can’t quite get a feel for how they taper between 1st and 12th fret. I generally like bigger/chunky necks. I have Strat with a fatback, but feel necks with taper always seem to vibrate better somehow. Any thoughts?
BTH That fret job is not 800$ level of quality. That fretslots left unfilled with that visible croocked fret wire would drive my OCD to absolute craziness. Great vid as always, Tony.
Ha I get that. I don't generally look so close and ultimately if I find something that has a problem with the playing I'll look much closer. Warmoth always say to look at the frets etc... All I can say is that they do better ones than me :) Mine are like a 100 year old railway track :) - I know it was expensive for sure and with the £ taking a dive it was 12% even more expensive :( - it makes me think if these governments generally have a clue. Thanks for watching.
@@tonymckenziecom I like more modern approach - cnc cut fret slots but without cutting the fretboard edge - clean and flush look. My Ibanez Prestige necks (cost about 500 euros) have MUCH better fret job imho, but in Warmoth You have customization.
If there is one product that really needs to be able to physically handle in order to buy it's a guitar! Many products you can satisfactorily buy online with a picture and a description, but guitars aren't one of them. Sad to see George's leave brick and mortar.
Well you can return the part, so for me its not too bad. Yes George's - that really is sad and lord knows how many guitarists visited there when in Orlando... of course the internets there but that so forgettable compared to visiting the place. I always went when in Orlando. Thanks for watching.
Not true if you already know what you like.
Musikraft hard to beat
Watch a review coming up over the next day or so... I was surprised... thanks for watching.
I have some land in Florida you might be interested in
Ha what can I say. Thanks for watching...
Have you ever had a neck that you didn't need to level the frets? Every neck I've ever bought needed the frets leveled.
You're right of course but to varying levels and some (of the much newer Warmoth necks) are very good as is - of course not perfect. My gripe was always the fret ends really and in the older times of Warmoth those ends were not always very good. Better now. Thanks for watching.
@@tonymckenziecom IDK, if you have to level the frrets it really doesn't matter how unlevel they are. I don't know how they can make a $700 neck be much different than a $50 Chinese neck. Same maple or mahogany wood. Same nickel silver or stainless steel frets. Same process for cutting the neck, same process of installing the frets. Same finish. Before CNC machines it was much harder to make a neck but now everyone uses them.
I've bought $50 Chinese necks and leveled the frets and they're great! It's going to be hard for Warmoth and other premium neck manufacturers to differentiate their product. Maybe Plekking them would be a good way?
Thanks for the reply, Tony! Keep up the good work!
@@joeking433 Because Chinese work for 2 dollars a day and don't care near as much about quality.
@@Thirdgen83 Yeah, but CNC machines in Chinese factories work just as well as CNC machines in American factories! And that's 90% of the neck! It shouldn't be hard to make good necks. I don't see Warmoth hanging in there too much longer, TBH. v
@@joeking433 Wow, you really are clueless.
I want to watch that axe fx deleted video 😭
Oh well... ;-)
guess what you cant get with a vintage modern neck? a floyd rose nut..
Thats a great point and I did not check that.... thanks for posting it and for watching.
Tony, great video.
But for $800.00 dollars that neck should be a totally finished one piece neck.
That’s why I never buy Warmoth.
That’s why I went with Musikraft for my neck.
@@mikemorrisonmusic There’s some good outfits out there that do nice work. For $800.00 a one piece neck is almost mandatory.
Warmoth is 30-40% more expensive than the rest. As a resale point it will never equal a branded Fender neck.
The nut on Tony’s neck isn’t even polished.
But he’s happy. And that’s all that matters.
Customer satisfaction.
When you go out there Tommy these days it's about the going rate... especially if you build it online type of thing. I know there are cheaper off the shelf so to speak but it's finding one with the exact specs. That might not matter to many guys of course, but I wanted to create something a bit different (ha although my couple of Telecasters all seem similar). So why the 'one piece? Would you really tell the difference? Some guys might probably but highly likely not me with my trashed ears. I agree they are expensive but I have looked around for an equivalent that is cheaper but makes the grade on quality generally (clearly they can make mistakes) and from here its hard to find the same stuff. Have you ever bought Warmoth stuff? I know you have 'been around' with guitars and your opinion is based on good knowledge. Hope you're doing OK there Tommy and thanks...
Well I did look at MusiKraft but by the time you get to the end of the ordering part the price is way up there... and in some respects there are so many 'options' it could be easy for someone with less experience to get it wrong at some stage. I don't doubt they make good necks etc. but maybe better with the ones I know, and I never had any real issues with Warmoth. Being far away for any of those companies is a drag though. Thanks for the post and for watching.
:) I'm not too worried about the nut :)
800$ for a parts caster neck? you can get a 80's japanese strat or tele for about a grand, so put that in perspective. you can get american tele neck for under 800 quite easily.
:) you're the guy in the video I mentioned (just kidding of course). I know I have bought genuine Fender necks and of course the Jap Strat necks are different really. This really was a high price (trust me I did not want to pay it!) but it did offer what specs I wanted and that sort of thing... wait until the guitar is finished and come back and post if you think the whole thing was worth it... good points and I agree there are cheaper necks but finding 'better' ones might be harder. Thanks for watching too.
Ken, you have no idea what you're talking about.
I think you've payed way too much,for this birdseye maple Telecaster neck,sorry to say so.
I would have advised you,to order a neck from Vox Humana, Schiedam,the Netherlands. They have beautiful birdseye maple Telecaster necks,carbon reinforced(carbon tech),all kind of fret and trussrod optionsand the shipping will be very less to the UK.
Well thanks for the info... post a link! I'll check them out of course... I have been with Warmoth a long time and tend to know what I will receive. The price IS high, but the shipping was horrible and the tax here was just as bad really. Oh well :) and thanks for watching.
Your room sounds terrible Tony and a lot of hiss too.
That was only the first bit because the mic was too far away. Other than that, it sounded OK to me... but I have been known to be wrong :) Thanks and thanks for watching - now where did that snake go...
Need a bit of acoustic panels that should take care of it. Been watching your channel from near the beginning Tony.