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Post subject: One-piece maple necks-what series?
Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 12:11 pm
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Hi all, first post, please forgive any ineptitudes. I recently purchased my first Strat, a Highway One upgrade. It was this last Saturday, and it is - so far - a stock standard honey blonde with maple 'fingerboard'. There are one or two minor adjustments I want to make but, overall, I'm loving it.

After getting it home and taking a much closer look than ever I did at the store, I noticed that there is no actual fingerboard. Believe me, I have taken a very close look at the grain on the neck and, unless the neck and fingerboard have been cut from the same piece of wood and then very, very finely glued together, this is in the truest sense of the word, a one piece neck, with the frets set directly into it.

I believe that there have been necks like this on certain Strats of the past, so in essence I have two questions. First, is this the standard deal on the H1 upgrade maple necks and, second, when was this common practice before? (I've heard some speak of the 70s...) And I guess, if anyone has the time, is there any benefit or difference to this method of doing things?

Much obliged good people.
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Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 12:18 pm
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i have never seen a maple neck with a glued on maple fretboard :)

i think every single american/mexican/japanese strat/tele comes with a one piece maple neck

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Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 1:09 pm
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look at some of the Strats from the 70's the ones with bullet truss rod nut and no skunk stripe, the skunk stripe I think is the key

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