A few months ago after I bought my guitar I noticed a small flaw in the tuning peg. I went back to replace it, but Guitar Center wasn't allowed to replace a single schaller tuning peg. They offered me another V Neck Strat with the same color and everything and I noticed something different in the necks. The top of my guitar neck that's close to the headstock had less wood on the sides (which I liked better because I could wrap my hand around it a lot easier), while the other one had more wood (or maybe that's what the actual neck was supposed to be). You could really feel the difference, even one of the employees agreed. I ended up keeping mine and not trading. My question though is how often are these small changes, I thought with mass production that everything would be the same, but apparently not. I'm actually quite happy to have a slightly different neck, thank you Fender and for the employee who shaped the neck

The parts that go into making a strat are mass produced, the people doing the finishing and fretwork do cause a certain ammount of variance though.
Maybe they went a little hard on the sander in your case.

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Thanks. The reason I thought it was mass produced was because I played on an Eric Clapton Signature Model that also had a V Neck and I found that a little thinker than mine too.

The clapton neck in particular is said to have changed a bit over the years. ZZdoc had the customshop build him a srv/clapton/58holly guitar thats neck felt quite different to his 89clapton.
The current clapton softV is quite different to the 80's one. the 57hotrod owes more to the 80s clapton than the current clapton neck does. The standard 57RI is different still and if you really want to get whacky try a baja telecaster. That thing has a treetrunk.
The C on my customshop is very different to the C on a deluxe or standard.
As i said its down to the finishers performance the stuff is mass produced with cnc machines but finished by hand. The old saying goes 'fender cant make the same guitar twice in one day'. Ive found it to be true over the years.

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Plus like fenders disclaimer says spec's subject to change without notice.

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