Apart from ebay, anyone know where i can buy an original USA Fender Strat Neck (maple) from and how much I would expect to pay ?

I am in the UK.

thanks in advance

Mark

Your only other option as far as I know is to buy a guitar.

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ok thanks for your help

you could try ebay... lots of strat parts there!

Only three ways, Ebay, Craigslist, or buy the whole guitar from a shop. Last option is the best way to ensure you have the genuine article. However, $300 is cheap! If you're paying less then $600 for the neck, I'd be really careful about it....

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Like Nick says, you're not in luck.

Even on Ebay it ain't easy, our side of the pond. Far as I'm aware there's nobody here parting out real Fenders on a regular basis like one or two people are doing in America. And many of the necks I see on Ebay are obvious fakes. Some others are less obvious. And some others - I just don't know, but would be leary of parting with money.

Guess you could always part out a real Fender yourself and make a nice profit on the body and other bits?

Cheers - C

You haven't said why you are looking for a neck. If you have broken your neck you may have the option to return it to Fender and they will issue you a new genuine neck. This has been done in the past under certain circumstances.

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Just think of how awesome a guitar player you could have been by now if you had only spent the last 10 years practicing instead of obsessing over pickups and roasted maple necks.

Warmoth makes a really nice replacement neck.

I seem to recall Fender used to sell replacement necks and bodies, but htey may have stopped doing it.

Paris

Sorry - I know this sounds crazy but I wanted to change the colour of mine. It currently has a rosewood fingerboard and I would like a maple one (black strat ). My current rosewood one is on fleabay at the moment so we'll see what it goes for

No no - withdraw that sale quick!

What you do is buy a Strat from the same place in the catalog but with a maple neck. You swap the necks out and then you sell the rosewood necked guitar on Evilbay.

You will take a small loss on the deal - and that's the price of your guitar's elective surgery.

Cheers - C

On Ebay, I have found a reliable parts dealer, Reliablefender is the screen name. Dude has parted out just about every type of strat there is. MIM/MIJ/MIA/Deluxe/CS...

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Wrong side of the Atlantic, though. Postage and import duty makes it a very expensive way to go - which is why the OP put the "not Ebay" clause in at the top.

BTW: just in case an alternative option is interesting...

mark.carline, I do know of places to get a neck custom built in our country for substantially less than you will pay for a used Fender one on Ebay, even if you can find one you like and believe genuine. If interested - ask.

Cheers - C