Hi everyone, just joined these forums. I recently bought a circa 1980s Fender Strat body, but attached to an absolutey rubbish & cheap neck, as the original got broken off during a live performance.

I'LL UPLOAD PICTURES when I get home this evening, but the only other guitar I own is a 2008 Gibson SG Standard, & so I know almost nothing about Fenders.

I'd massively appreciate any advice anyone can give me on what I should do to make this guitar once again sound as good as it looks (such as the following), because it currently sounds like a cheap beginner's Squier;

- What model fender is it?
- What neck should I replace the current, terrible one with?
- Should I get the electrics/pickups checked out/changed?
- I also need to lower the action because at the moment the strings are almost a centimetre off the neck :s

Again, I'd be so grateful of any advice given,
Adam

Can't advise anything without pictures or more specific information.

I would have a luthier look at the guitar and see if it is sound (neck, electrics; the works). Then talk with him and find out what would be good.

I'll tell you what i tell customers who want a new neck, and what I do. Just buy a Warmoth neck. They're very high quality, and inexpensive. For the cost of a Mexian made neck on eBay, you can get a neck fromWarmoth with the exact profile, woods, frets, you want.
I picked up a quartersawn maple neck for $170. I reprofiled the back to a classic V profile, then shaved the treble side shoulder down between the 5th-12th fret, shot it with tinted nitro. Much better than anything I could have gotten for even more $$ for a fender neck.
Plus, a Fender neck wont add any real value, especially since it'll be a neck from another guitar.

Hi Adam, welcome to the Forum.

We often enjoy these sorts of telepathic ID threads, but this one is just too short on clues even for us. You've got to give us Something to go on. Broken neck? Heck, that could be anything (probably a Gibson... ).

On the evidence you've offered so far I'm going to stick my neck out and suggest you might have a Fender Strat - though if it's early '80s even that is far from certain. As to model... Let's not do Twenty Questions: give us some hints. As a great man once said:

A man's life in these parts often depends on a mere scrap of information. - Clint Eastwood

Cheers - C

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Hi chupatty,

How was it determined to be 80s, or even a Fender for that matter? You say that it sounds like a cheap beginners Squier, maybe that's what it is.

But, I agree, without pictures, who knows.

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