The World = crazy. Strat necks as expensive as whole Guitars

If you're going to keep your Stratocaster, you could get a MIM neck and relabel it with your serial number. MIM necks are really nice and cost a fraction of what MIA necks cost.
 
The neck I liked the best was a satin Big head MIM Road Worn Strat a local mom n pop once had. Slick as a whistle.
I have my eye on one of these big head ones on the bay. Still more than I wanna spend.

Also, after viewing some pics and seeing some necks built, I feel as if I can salvage my original neck and will just keep that Logo/Serial as is. This is a very nice '89 Am Std Strat I think even Sergio would approve of.
 
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Chili,

when i was building my custom Strat-esque guitars, I was paying a little over $1,000USD for a Custom Warmoth Strat Neck...mahogany, ebony, block inlay, 24.75" scale, with binding and finished front and back in catalyzed black poly.

You're right....Crazy.
 
OK, I just ordered 3 items of which I hope to only need 1. On my original 1989 E serial Am Std neck with T rod nut issue, I am awaiting a Bullet T rod nut if I don't want to replace the walnut plug and mess up the head stock finish. Also ordered the original style T rod nut and a pair of walnut plugs. Having watched some videos on how a guy makes his own Strat necks and gets the contour cut from thicker wood stock and then sands the contour, I feel I could make a mock up of the head stock with the contour and hole to inserat the dowel in, then shape it and sand it like it would be shaped in the original head. Then remove it from the mock up and fit it back in the original and use the original style T rod nut instead of the bullet one.

Just hoping I have good threads, and a non broken T rod on the original neck once I get it X rayed, or if I try putting a back bow in it to see if I can get the old nut out and expose some of the threads on the T rod to get a bite on with the original nut.

Keeping fingers crossed.
 
OK, I found out my Strat Neck Problem and the next paragraph will explain how and what I did and will be doing about it.
I also plan to make a thread about the process and progress.

Thanks to all you guys I Pm'd about the issue and what to do. Now here is the rest of the story.

OK, So today I made the decision on how to proceed. To do the ultimate test for my truss rod issue would involve the least invasive exploration I knew to do. The end result is it is as I predicted. The "Rod" is broken at the "Anchor point." I found this out by deciding to chisel out a small exploratory spot in the end of the skunk stripe just above the round metal anchor. Having found this out, the actual LEAST INVASIVE exploration I should have tried first was using a Magnet to try to lift the Anchor out after I did the following about the Sticker.

Because the anchor was partially covered by the sticker where the builders signed it, I used a hair drier and a single edged razor blade to carefully remove the sticker. This exposed the end of the skunk stripe and anchor at the heel of the guitar.

Then, I used my razor and gently scored both sides of the skunk stripe about the length just covered by the sticker. Then I took my 1/4 inch chisel to gently remove a bit of the stripe about 1/4 inch from the round anchor. As I was hitting the chisel with hammer, the anchor began to raise out of the neck. I then pried it up gently and it came totally out. Prior to all my posts and even me getting the neck X rayed, I could actually hear the anchor rattling. Now that the anchor is out, my diagnosis was confirmed.

So, now I will be proceeding to get the skunk stripe out to make access to remove and replace or repair the rod.
 
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