Short Scale Maple Necks

oolu · Post by **oolu** » Fri Feb 19, 2010 6:31 am

Why are they so hard to find? The only place I've found that makes them is Warmoth and hunting for maple-necked mustang pics online has turned up a surprisingly small amount. How many of you have played or owned one? Why are there so few of them out in the wild? I'm thinking a maple mustang would probably quack like a strat...

SKC Willie · Post by **SKC Willie** » Fri Feb 19, 2010 6:46 am

The Maple stang had definitely could produce sounds similar to a strat.

I used to love Maple and always wanted Maple fretboards for the guitars and basses I owned but recently, I've been liking the rosewood better.

oolu · Post by **oolu** » Fri Feb 19, 2010 6:48 am

I'm going thru the exact same thing but in reverse.
All of my guitars were rosewood until I got a tele last year and now I need more maple in my life. haha.

Mages · Post by **Mages** » Fri Feb 19, 2010 6:56 am

get a Classic Vibe Duo-Sonic.

other than that it was never standard on any shortscale guitar except for 50s duo-sonics and musicmasters (which were almost all 22.5"). it was only briefly optional on 70s mustangs.

Noirie. · Post by **Noirie.** » Fri Feb 19, 2010 7:22 am

mage wrote:Classic Vibe Duo-Sonic.

Its a conversion neck. So it will only work on that guitar or a Jagmaster II.

Mages · Post by **Mages** » Fri Feb 19, 2010 7:30 am

yeah, I wasn't so much trying to suggest necks to snatch off of other guitars as trying to explain why their aren't many around in the first place.... and suggest he get a CV duo.

Noirie. · Post by **Noirie.** » Fri Feb 19, 2010 7:34 am

Oops my bad. I read that as if he had a rosewood neck mustang but wanted a maple neck for it.

I need moar sleep.

Mages · Post by **Mages** » Fri Feb 19, 2010 7:39 am

there, fixed it now. edited in the crucial "get a".

oolu · Post by **oolu** » Fri Feb 19, 2010 8:45 am

Noirie. wrote:Oops my bad. I read that as if he had a rosewood neck mustang but wanted a maple neck for it.

this IS, in fact, the case. I'm trying to find a maple neck for a mustang body and having trouble doing so.

Haze · Post by **Haze** » Fri Feb 19, 2010 8:59 am

Reece has one actually
http://www.shortscale.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=32538
its belonged to a few shortscalers i believe

im sure he could take some detailed photos if you say pretty please enough

just going through Warmoth:

Maple neck + fretboard - $157
Straight 9.5" Radius - $35 [they do not offer a 7.25", they want you to buy their bridge] [10"-16" compound is free]
Nut install is $25-$30 - these will be pre slotted but not pre cut, best to cut the nut when its attached to the guitar
Clear Gloss is $85
Tinted Gloss is $105

I would personally avoid the Warmoth neck because i love the vintage radius too much. If i HAD to get a warmoth i would get a bone stock one and install a nut and finish it myself for MUCH cheaper

Shaguar · Post by **Shaguar** » Fri Feb 19, 2010 11:21 am

http://guitarmill.com will also make a maple 24 neck on demand. They dont have them on their website but they will make one if you ask for it.

Post by **dots** » Fri Feb 19, 2010 6:21 pm

i was thinking about this very question the other day, and mah mind's a blank. my cv duo has one, but that in and of itself is a rarity (and a squier), and vintage shortscales are even rarer.

oolu · Post by **oolu** » Fri Feb 19, 2010 6:25 pm

Haze wrote:Reece has one actually

im sure he could take some detailed photos if you say pretty please enough

just going through Warmoth:

Maple neck + fretboard - $157
Straight 9.5" Radius - $35 [they do not offer a 7.25", they want you to buy their bridge] [10"-16" compound is free]
Nut install is $25-$30 - these will be pre slotted but not pre cut, best to cut the nut when its attached to the guitar
Clear Gloss is $85
Tinted Gloss is $105

I would personally avoid the Warmoth neck because i love the vintage radius too much. If i HAD to get a warmoth i would get a bone stock one and install a nut and finish it myself for MUCH cheaper

That guitar is pretty sexy, I must say. I've already got a body, though... Just need a neck and I doubt Reese'll part this girl out. Plus, it'd have to come all the way back to Canada, which would be very expensive and a pain in the ass.
I don't have the proper tools to finish a neck, or I'd consider going that route myself. Is there anybody here that'll build one for me?

Also, let's get some Maplestang photos up here!!

Haze · Post by **Haze** » Fri Feb 19, 2010 7:25 pm

none as good as reece's im afraid

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dumb donnie · Post by **dumb donnie** » Fri Feb 19, 2010 7:57 pm

Haze wrote:

Shit, that's nice!

If only I could find a Mustang bass that looks just like it.

astro · Post by **astro** » Sat Feb 20, 2010 3:52 am

Here's another pic of Reece's maplestang, back when it was mine:

oolu · Post by **oolu** » Sat Feb 20, 2010 3:58 am

Looks like they were only released with sunburst or stained bodies...
Any leads on having one made for me? Preferably somewhere on the North American continent...?

Maybe I'll just have to suck it up and buy thru Warmoth.

Richard · Post by **Richard** » Sat Feb 20, 2010 4:04 am

oolu wrote:Looks like they were only released with sunburst or stained bodies...

There were black ones too.

Mages · Post by **Mages** » Sat Feb 20, 2010 4:08 am

they were never standard. they were an option. meaning a shop would have to specially order the guitar for you. so you could get a maple neck with any finish they made in the 70s. black, white, sunburst, natural, walnut, trans red, or antigua.

Haze · Post by **Haze** » Sat Feb 20, 2010 4:16 am

The guy from The Cribs plays an antiqua mustang and iirc it has a maple neck
They were an option, like Mage said. The last run in '84 was from leftover parts (plenty of leftover maple) and was sort of a 20th year
anniversary, those didn't have serial numbers on the headstock for some reason