Need help sourcing guitar neck with no inlays

ninwilky

Hey.

After christmas we have to do a design manifesto project and as my thesis is related to music products, I'd like to take a guitar and do my own fretboard design.

So my question is this, does anyone know where I can get a bolt on guitar neck with a fretted board but with *NO* inlays? Preferably cheapish as I'm a student blah blah broke.

Gregor Samsa

Unfinished strat style neck with no inlays or frets. $19.99

http://www.guitarfetish.com/Luthiers-Special-Unfinished-In-Progress-Stratocaster-Neck-_p_8354.html

It might take a lot of work to make it properly playable, but it might do for a design prototype.

Edit: sorry, I missed the bit where you said you needed it fretted.

You could get one built by warmoth.com with frets and no inlays, but it would cost a few hundred.

Gregor Samsa

There's a few cheap ones on ebay, but they've paddle headstocks that you'd have to shape yourself and drill tuner holes.

http://m.ebay.ie/itm/151072033918?nav=SEARCH&sbk=1

martinedwards

you'll need to pull the frets to do your own custom inlay work.

trust me, it'll save you DAYS, not hours.

if it was ME, I'd use a Dremel on a plunge router stand, glue the inlay in place, then sand smooth with a block (preferably curved, but flat would WORK......

then cut the fret slots back through your inlay, and replace the frets.

to do it with the frets in place would be an absolute nightmare. 100% harder than what I've suggested above, 1000% harder above the 3rd fret where things get really crowded!

ninwilky

I'm more than likely going to use a wood burner for the design so I'd probably need to go with something like a maple (or any light coloured) fretboard. If worse comes to worse I'll probably just build something out of pine or whatever. I'd love to be able to actually keep it and play it but it's for a project so if it just looks the part then I'll be all right.

nelly17

try here

martinedwards

Warmoth are excellent quality but more than a little pricey.

I'd get onto ebay.

strat copy necks are about 25 euro or so.....