Be Careful When Mounting a new Musikraft or Warmoth Neck to a Vintage Strat

Happy Easter! This is a Public Service Announcement to hopefully alleviate any heartaches from cracking your new, especially Roasted Maple, neck. It is common knowledge that Roasted Maple is more prone to cracking when mounting the tuners or attaching the neck to the body due to the hardness of the baked Maple wood. The Roasted Maple sounds wonderful but extra precautions should be taken when mounting the hardware and the neck. One precaution that didn't dawn on me was the size of vintage Fender neck mounting screws. They are quite a bit larger than modern screws as shown in this video. The first neck I mounted to a newer Nash Strat went off without a hitch. I had drilled slightly larger holes for the Kluson tuner screws and the Nash neck mounting screws were the modern size. No problems. Not the case with my 1964 Strat. Fender used big screws back then. So, just simply always buy new mounting screws when you buy a new neck for a vintage guitar. And, the Roasted Maple Musikraft neck was a big improvement over the vintage 1964 neck so don't rule out replacing yours just because it is vintage. If you've never quite been 100% satisfied with the profile, feel, or playability of your vintage neck, you can tailor it down to every minute detail with a new neck. I wanted a larger reverse CBS headstock because, IMO, they sound and play better.

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