AliExpress floral neck, scalloped from 12th to 24th fret (finally ended building a new guitar from parts)

[Andy Eagle]

The exact position seems to vary according to how the saddles end up from some manufacturers . The average seems to be about 25 1/8" to the centre of the posts. You can tweak the neck pocket or the recess rout to get it. Ive just measured a couple and there are both 25 1/8".

 

[Piing]

It looks like the problem is at the neck! The body seems to be perfectly dimensioned and routed according to Strat measurements

Here is the neck of my American Deluxe (above) and the AliExpress (below):


I will have to file the neck

 

[Justincase]

Alot easier to file the neck a little than reroute the pocket

 

[iaresee]

I will have to file the neck

Is the truss rod not going to get in the way of that?

 

[Piing]

Is the truss rod not going to get in the way of that?

Ouch! I've never seen the guts of a neck. Will I touch the bone?

 

[Andy Eagle]

You seem to have it now.

 

[Andy Eagle]

Is the truss rod nut at the head? if it is you will be fine.

 

[Justincase]

Ouch! I've never seen the guts of a neck. Will I touch the bone?

If your truss rod adjustment is at the headstock you should be fine.

 

[Piing]

Yes it is at the head.

Tomorrow will be neck filing day.

Thank you for your support!

 

[iaresee]

Ouch! I've never seen the guts of a neck. Will I touch the bone?

If you can't see the truss rod at the heel of the neck you're probably fine.

 

[Justincase]

Can't wait to see the finished project!

 

[Piing]

It's been a long day filing! My neck hurts
Ready to bring it tomorrow to a workshop with a drill press for the stud inserts

 

[Justincase]

It's been a long day filing! My neck hurts
Ready to bring it tomorrow to a workshop with a drill press for the stud inserts
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Looks like you nailed it!

 

[Justincase]

It's been a long day filing! My neck hurts
Ready to bring it tomorrow to a workshop with a drill press for the stud inserts
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Looks like you may need to plug the holes in the neck cuz it doesn't look like those are going to line up....or is it an optical illusion?

 

[Piing]

Looks like you may need to plug the holes in the neck cuz it doesn't look like those are going to line up....or is it an optical illusion?

These are the old holes I've already made new ones

 

[Justincase]

You are going to have an orange guitar just in time for Halloween

 

[Piing]

You are going to have an orange guitar just in time for Halloween

I hope that, after all the effort, besides being able to intonate and stay in tune, it will have some mojo
And no dead notes like the Suhr or the J-Custom

 

[Justincase]

I hope that, after all the effort, besides being able to intonate and stay in tune, it will have some mojo
And no dead notes like the Suhr or the J-Custom

You have dead notes on a J-custom? Frets not level from factory?

 

[Piing]

You have dead notes on a J-custom? Frets not level from factory?

Not a fret issue. The guitar body absorbing the vibrational energy of one specific frequency, making that note to decay abruptly, unnaturally, and with a weird harmonic (the rapid test for dead notes is to push the guitar against a wooden table or door, or to retune the string to see if the dead note moves to the consequent fret)

It seems like it can happen at the most expensive guitars

A new RG8550MZ. It was a pity to sell that beauty, even though I could sell it for a slightly higher price on Reverb (just to recover the Reverb fees)

Long story here: https://www.jemsite.com/threads/j-c...is-the-custom-worth-1-000.145370/post-1386865

 

[Justincase]

Not a fret issue. The guitar body absorbing the vibrational energy of one specific frequency, making that note to decay abruptly, unnaturally, and with a weird harmonic.

A new RG8550MZ. It was a pity to sell that beauty, even though I could sell it for a slightly higher price on Reverb (just to recover the Reverb fees)

Long story here: https://www.jemsite.com/threads/j-c...is-the-custom-worth-1-000.145370/post-1386865

What a shame....