can anyone tell me if the neck pocket on a mim strat is the same as a mia strat...i wanna put an american made neck on my mim strat bcuz i cant afford an american strat..so at least ill be half way there..if that makes any sense ????

Dimensions for neck heels and pockets are relatively standardized for all FMIC instruments. The only difficulty I've ever had when swapping parts around that are sourced from different plants were the MIJ/CIJ components (likely due to that whole pesky "metric business") and in those rare cases, some minor "hand massaging" quickly solved the issue. You shouldn't have any problems mating a MIA neck to an MIM body, or vice versa.

Arjay

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thanks bro thats good to know.....is it better to get a neck from fender? or somewhere else? i really want one with decals already on it fender stratocaster contour body etc...and what am i lookin at generally??? i know theres tons of variations.. but more or less in general

Fender doesn't sell necks. The only way to legally get a neck with the Decals on it is to buy a used one from Ebay, and you are going to pay around 300 or more for just the neck there. There are licensed Neck makers with the correct shape but they won't have the decals.

wow!!! bummer thanx yog....i

At that price, the sale will often included installed tuners and a string tree as well.

I buy them that way all the time (I've assembled over a dozen "parts-o-casters").

Arjay

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"Here's why reliability is job one: A great sounding amp that breaks down goes from being a favorite piece of gear to a useless piece of crap in less time than it takes to read this sentence." -- BRUCE ZINKY

ok bro thanks for ur help .....