Need advice on musikraft neck order

[sixstringking713]

looking to place musikraft order.

Not sure on
Nut/heavy vs semi rolled edge:
1)1.65" nut w/ R2 hardware and heavy rolled edge
2)1.65" nut w/ R2 hardware and semi-rolled edge
3)1.625" nut w/ R2 hardware and heavy rolled edge
4)1.625" nut w/ R2 hardware and semi-rolled edge

wood finish:
aged oil finish w/ light roast?

Any advice??
???

if anyone has ordered a musikraft franky neck with ANY of these choices I listed, please post pictures.

Thanks!

 

[Anonymous]

looking to place musikraft order.

Not sure on
Nut/heavy vs semi rolled edge:
1)1.65" nut w/ R2 hardware and heavy rolled edge
2)1.65" nut w/ R2 hardware and semi-rolled edge
3)1.625" nut w/ R2 hardware and heavy rolled edge
4)1.625" nut w/ R2 hardware and semi-rolled edge

wood finish:
aged oil finish w/ light roast?

Any advice??
???

if anyone has ordered a musikraft franky neck with ANY of these choices I listed, please post pictures.

Thanks!

This ain't a Franky neck, but 1 3/4" was the Franky original neck profile. Here is what I got from Musikraft:

CBS Strat Neck (1 pc)
Options:
Scale: 25.5 Standard Fender
Orientation: Right Handed
Number Frets: 21 Fret
Nut Style: Fender Flat Bottom
Nut Width: 1-3/4 (44.45mm)
Heel Width: 2-3/16 (55.56mm) Standard Fender
Tuner Holes: 10 MM (Sperzel/Gotoh/Schaller)
Truss Rod: Vintage Single Acting Adjust @ Heel
FB Radius: 12
Shaft Wood: Private Reserve Birdseye Maple
Top Dots: Black Synthetic Dots
12th Dots: Narrow - Post '64
Fret Wire: Jumbo 7100 Stainless Steel
Side Dots: Black 2mm
FB Edges: Heavy Rolled
Back Profile: Medium C .83 X .92
Finish: Dark Roasted Maple Neck & Aged Oil Finish
Mount Holes: Drill Neck Mounting Holes
Nut Install: Install Slotted Tusq Nut

It is pretty close the Franky neck actually (I have one of those too). I recommend you get light roast and oil finish unless you like the neck really dark like mine is. The Private Reserve Birdseye stuff is amazing and when roasted, it should be very stable. Get the stainless frets too! I'd go heavy rolled edges.

Here it is on my guitar. It is a Muskrat neck too:

Steve

 

[sixstringking713]

looking to place musikraft order.

Not sure on
Nut/heavy vs semi rolled edge:
1)1.65" nut w/ R2 hardware and heavy rolled edge
2)1.65" nut w/ R2 hardware and semi-rolled edge
3)1.625" nut w/ R2 hardware and heavy rolled edge
4)1.625" nut w/ R2 hardware and semi-rolled edge

wood finish:
aged oil finish w/ light roast?

Any advice??
???

if anyone has ordered a musikraft franky neck with ANY of these choices I listed, please post pictures.

Thanks!

This ain't a Franky neck, but 1 3/4" was the Franky original neck profile. Here is what I got from Musikraft:

CBS Strat Neck (1 pc)
Options:
Scale: 25.5 Standard Fender
Orientation: Right Handed
Number Frets: 21 Fret
Nut Style: Fender Flat Bottom
Nut Width: 1-3/4 (44.45mm)
Heel Width: 2-3/16 (55.56mm) Standard Fender
Tuner Holes: 10 MM (Sperzel/Gotoh/Schaller)
Truss Rod: Vintage Single Acting Adjust @ Heel
FB Radius: 12
Shaft Wood: Private Reserve Birdseye Maple
Top Dots: Black Synthetic Dots
12th Dots: Narrow - Post '64
Fret Wire: Jumbo 7100 Stainless Steel
Side Dots: Black 2mm
FB Edges: Heavy Rolled
Back Profile: Medium C .83 X .92
Finish: Dark Roasted Maple Neck & Aged Oil Finish
Mount Holes: Drill Neck Mounting Holes
Nut Install: Install Slotted Tusq Nut

It is pretty close the Franky neck actually (I have one of those too). I recommend you get light roast and oil finish unless you like the neck really dark like mine is. The Private Reserve Birdseye stuff is amazing and when roasted, it should be very stable. Get the stainless frets too! I'd go heavy rolled edges.

Here it is on my guitar. It is a Muskrat neck too:



Steve

Thank you for the advice.. do you happen to have any close ups showing the "Heavy-rolled" edge?
Did you request what style of 5A birdseye you wanted or did you just go with luck of the draw?

 

[Shawn Lutz]

my advice is to order exactly what you like in a neck. That is the beauty of a custom order Musikraft Go Stainless steel frets and I'd go rolled

I ordered a bunch of Musikraft necks, I like birdseye and one piece maple necks, different variations of fat neck profiles etc. They make good necks.

 

[Anonymous]

Thank you for the advice.. do you happen to have any close ups showing the "Heavy-rolled" edge?

Did you request what style of 5A birdseye you wanted or did you just go with luck of the draw?

I asked for "Private Reserve Birdseye" and they asked me if I wanted "big birdseye" or "small, tight birdseye" and I chose "big birdseye" after I showed them the birdseye on one of the necks I already had that I wanted them to match as close as they could...

Steve

 

[Anonymous]

I'm currently waiting for a Musikraft neck, did the frets on yours need much work when you received it ?

 

[Anonymous]

I'm currently waiting for a Musikraft neck, did the frets on yours need much work when you received it ?

To be honest, my neck was bowed so bad that it was completely useless. I didn't notice it when I first partially assembled the guitar and I had it for so long waiting for MJT to finish paint work on my body that I could not return it and frankly, I didn't want to anyway. I ended up sending it to http://www.warpedneck.com and for $150 they fixed the neck using some heat process they've mastered. It was amazing - they turned it from scrap wood to a functional neck!

My experience with Musikraft and Warmth is the necks ALWAYS need fretwork, so factor that into the price of the neck... Never had anything like the ridiculous back bow this neck had though... That was a new one on me...

Steve

 

[Anonymous]

I've ordered a roasted quartersawn maple one piece. If they can't make that stable they don't deserve to make necks. Lol.

My last Warmoth's fretwork was perfect but they didn't make what I wanted in this one.

 

[155]

sah5150 that is a sick guitar!!

 

[Rdodson]

Steve,
Those guys are great and right up the road from me. Glad to hear they did a good job for you. What a small world.

Ron

 

[Anonymous]

sah5150 that is a sick guitar!!

Thanks man! I ended up replacing all the pickups in that guitar so it looks different now, but it sounds way better!

I had some '60-'63 strat replica pickups made for me by Wizz pickups. They are amazing, but very low output and I couldn't get the middle pickup to work with the Duncan RTM I had in there (Warren's pickup). It sounded weak when the split RTM and the middle single coil were on and flipping the magnet didn't help. Hummed as well... I'm going to put the Wizz pickups (including the original bridge single coil I didn't use in this guitar) in another build I'm doing with Musikraft parts. Turns out I didn't like the RTM bridge either - to me it is too gained out and too mid heavy. I ended up putting a double cream Dimarzio Super Distortion in the bridge and a Duncan SSL-6 single coil (Chubtone's recommendation) in the neck. The guitar sounds GREAT now. The SSL-6 works really well with the Super D as it has a lot more output than the vintage singles from Wizz... I put in a three way strat switch and just a 500K volume (no tones). Left the middle pickup cavity empty

I'll put up a couple pics when my camera battery charges...

Steve

 

[Anonymous]

Steve,
Those guys are great and right up the road from me. Glad to hear they did a good job for you. What a small world.

Ron

Dude - those guys are doing some kind of unholy magic over there! They turned a piece of firewood into a functional neck in less than three weeks!

Steve

 

[halebox]

I hear birdseye tends to warp easier

 

[Anonymous]

I hear birdseye tends to warp easier

Sure, but that is not true for birdseye maple that has been roasted. Even Suhr, who would not use birdseye maple before will use it now as long as it is roasted. No excuse - there is no way that neck should have been so back bowed...

I can also say that I live in CA, I have had at least 5 guitars with nice birdseye maple necks and I never had problems with stability with them and none of those was even roasted...

Steve

 

[Anonymous]

Did you contact Musikraft about the warping issue ?

 

[Anonymous]

Did you contact Musikraft about the warping issue ?

No, because the warranty period was already over before I assembled the guitar completely and discovered the problem. As I said, MJT had my body for a few months to finish and relic it...

Steve

 

[toddbz]

Shoot, I like everything about that. Even the display case.

 

[messenger]

Musikraft has good customer service. After having a neck for a year the fret ends sprouted (dry winter and my fault) and they said if I sent it to them they'd take care of it for free. I just rehydrated it (as per their advice) but still good for them offering to take care of it.

 

[Bronco]

Steve, awesome guitar man. Cosmetically, I LOVE the old school Floyd; but how practical is it though? Seems like it would be annoying to unlock the nut every time you need to tweak the tuning.

 

[ke2]

Steve, awesome guitar man. Cosmetically, I LOVE the old school Floyd; but how practical is it though? Seems like it would be annoying to unlock the nut every time you need to tweak the tuning.

It doesn't have a locking nut
Sweet guitar, Steve!