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There is only one of these necks available.
All photographs are of the actual neck described
and offered for sale.
 Offered here is
a used
original 1995 Fender American vintage '57
reissue maple neck, 7-1/4"
radius
fingerboard and 21 vintage frets.
This used neck shows very little signs of actual use,
the subtle
indications of use can be noticed on the first 3 frets where
the strings were pressed down and left very
light marks on the top of the frets, all of the
other frets do not show any string wear marks.
The truss rod adjusting nut rotates and adjusts smoothly.
The neck is flat when there is no tension on the
truss rod adjustment, no twisting, no warping.
This neck has the original Fender installed
string nut, it has never been replaced. The
string nut slots appear to be cut low, but lower
nut slot depths are typical for the lower
vintage frets, but we are unsure if nut slots
depths may affect a set up string height, it is possible the string slots may be
low enough that the string nut may need to be
replaced at some point.
Inspection of the nitrocellulose lacquer
on the overall wood of the neck does not reveal
any
wear, damage or signs of finish checking which
is often typical of older nitrocellulose lacquer
finishes, it is in excellent condition for a 26
year old neck.
Originally at Fender when this
neck was being created it was sprayed with nitrocellulose lacquer
completely covering all of the
frets and only when the frets were leveled, crowned and polished
in the final production was the lacquer removed from the top of each fret
but lacquer
remained on the front and back side of each fret.
Over time the lacquer that remained on the front
and back side of each fret has some of it chipped away
from the fret as shown in the 2'nd to the last photograph
below, this chipping away
of the lacquer is only from portions of the
metal frets, all of the nitrocellulose lacquer covered wood
is entirely
unaffected.
The installed tuners are the original nickel plated Gotoh vintage
tuners with a 1:15 tuning ratio. The E6 (bass)
tuning key is slightly free'er in its rotation
than the others,
this E6 tuning key is no
different in any other characteristic.
The four neck mounting screw holes show good
condition with screw threads intact and clean.
The neck profile shape is described by Fender as Soft "V", but in our evaluation it
could be a Vintage "C". Maybe this particular
Soft "V" is very soft, but what
ever profile shape it actually is, we have
created an illustration below to show you the
actual profile shape of the neck.
The neck profile shape as shown below was
created by using small diameter (0.050") solid copper wire to form-fit
the wire shape around the profile of the neck to
reveal the actual shape of the neck, what you
see below in the "Neck Profile Shape"
illustration is not a drawing or interpretation, but photographs
of the actual copper wires as they were
form-fitted around the back of the neck to get a
true visualization of its profile shape.
We did this in two locations on the neck, at the
2'nd fret and the 11'th fret. The
illustration is not to scale for the width and
thickness (depth), it is merely
illustrated to reveal the actual curved shape.
So whether you want to call it Soft "V" or
Vintage "C" is up to you, it is what it is...
There is no date
stamp on the heel of the neck, but when we
purchased this neck from the original owner in
December 2010 it was
described as a 1995 model year neck and they
additionally provided us with the original serial
number of #V075907 that was assigned by Fender
to the complete Strat this neck came from. We
have run that serial number through our Fender
dealer portal's serial number
lookup and confirmed it was from a 1995 AVRI '57
Strat with a two tone burst finish produced on March 2, 1995.
We've accurately described this neck based on a
thorough evaluation This neck does
not qualify for return, exchange or refund, it
is being sold "As Is".
- Fingerboard: Maple
- Neck Material: Maple
- Number of Frets: 21
- Fret Size: Vintage
- Average Fret Height:
0.035"
- Fret Width:
Approximately 0.085"
- Neck Profile Shape:
See illustration
to the right. Soft V or Vintage C?
We're unsure.
- Fingerboard Radius:
7-1/4"
- Neck Finish: Gloss
Nitrocellulose Lacquer
- Scale Length: 25.5"
- Nut Material: Bone
(according to Fender). Simulated bone or real bone?
We're
unsure.
- Nut Width: 1.654"
- String Tree:
Vintage, No Height Spacer, Mounted Flush
Against Face of Headstock
- Neck Thickness
Directly Behind 1'st Fret: 0.813"
- Neck Thickness
Directly Behind 5'th Fret: 0.825"
- Neck Thickness
Directly Behind 7'th Fret: 0.830"
- Neck Thickness
Directly Behind 12'th Fret: 0.848"
- Position Inlays: Black
Dot, Narrow Spaced at 12'th Fret
- Truss Rod: Vintage
Adjustment at Heel of Neck
- Walnut "Skunk" Stripe
on
Back of Neck
- Tuners: Vintage
Nickel Gotoh 1:15 Ratio
Price: $850.00
SOLD
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