🎶 Elevate Your Sound with Style!
The Leo Jaymz Electric Guitar Neck Collection Series features a selected roasted flame maple neck with a rosewood fingerboard, designed for TL style electric guitars. It boasts 21 frets, a 9.5" radius, and a 25.5" scale length, ensuring both aesthetic appeal and superior playability. The neck is equipped with hand-polished stainless steel accessories and elegant pearl shell inlays, making it a perfect choice for musicians seeking quality and style.
J**F
Incredible deal for the price
As soon as I get this mounted to a body, I’ll update the review with final thoughts. In the meantime, let’s talk about what I can see right off the bat.The model I purchased is a tinted lacquer gloss finish roasted maple neck with rosewood fingerboard. It most closely resembles the Squier neck on my Classic Vibe 60’s model Squier Strat, although that neck has the tinted lacquer with regular maple rather than roasted.There’s a lot of good here. The neck looks great. The wood is pretty much flawless, and the fretboard, dots and side markers all look great. Out of the box, the neck is straight as an arrow. While I haven’t strung it up yet, it looks like the nut may need a little filing unless you like a high action. We’ll see how it looks when it’s mounted though.The frets are probably the big weak point. They’re smooth and the ends are all nicely rounded (which was a big surprise), but they’re not all the perfect length. Some of them weren’t centered fully, with a gap on one side and the fret end sticking out a little in the other. For these I was able to minimize the impact by tapping them with a small fret hammer, nudging them in the correct direction. Still, some other frets seemed to be cut just a little too short, leaving a small gap even when the other side was flush. This could affect playability if it ends up causing the strings to fall off the edge too early, but I won’t know if it’s an issue until I get it mounted and strung up. I’ve included some pictures where you can see the inconsistent gap along the edges, these were all taken after I had adjusted the worst offenders. Fret height was consistent though, I didn’t need to adjust that at all.The truss rod turns with a 4mm Allen wrench. I made an adjustment to add a small amount of bow and I could feel the tension, but so far I’ve seen no detectable change. Maybe it needs to be under load before it can be measured; I’ll add that info to my update when I do it.Finally, just a note: as expected, you’ll need to drill your own pilot holes before mounting to a body.If the neck ends up plying well when the installation and setup is complete, this will be the best “cheap” neck I’ve ever purchased. Primarily because of how well-rounded the fret ends are. So many other discount necks have frets that are just clipped off at a steep angle, causing sharp fret ends as well as strings that slide off the neck when you fret too close to the edge. I’m really, really hoping that the small gaps on some of the frets don’t cause an issue, because I really want to love this neck, and I want to believe that you can get something of reasonable quality for under $150.
D**5
You pay for what you get
The wood is beautiful and the gloss finish looks great. The frets are alright, definitely cut a little short but not enough to affect playability. Fit right into my Stratocaster neck pocket. If you're building a guitar for 300 bucks or under this is a good choice.
A**E
2nd Try - Worth The Elbow Grease
I recently purchased a re-fin '70's Tele body on FB that the inside looked like it was someone's practice routing piece, just a mess, and the body (while in good condition) has gobs of lacquer overspray then finished off with a coat or two of poly. Because of the mentioned issues I was into this body for very little money. I build several guitars a year for personal use or for friends/family and had very low expectations of salvaging this cutting board so I took a chance on the Leo Jaymz neck. I ordered the T-Style maple neck and when it showed up it looked exactly like the photo, flamed and smooth - but the neck route on the Tele body had been carved out for a Strat. (Just my luck - If I would've paid more attention I would've caught it.)I returned it and purchased the S-Style w/Rosewood. It was delivered a few days ago and I left it in the box. Today I had my fingers crossed that it would fit and that I would receive the same quality as the one I returned. I lucked out on both. The flame is unreal and has some amazing Tiger's eye 3D qualities in the right light. It's straight right out of the box, the fret edges are incredibly smooth all 22 frets. It needed some leveling on the back of the neck and right at the heel where it appeared some lacquer had built up and was thicker on the treble side. I had leveled the guitar body's neck pocket ahead of time. At first, I thought it might be twisted because looking down the neck it was perfectly straight. After some measuring and 400 grit sandpaper at the heel, it finally lined up perfectly! It settled nicely, paired with some locking tuning machines and a bigbsy, the neck plays like butter. It's a smidge larger than a modern C in my opinion. I like larger SRV/JM D/C shaped necks and this one feels right in between. The nut needed a little love which is to be expected. The fretboard was a tad dry upon arrival, some lemon oil opened it up and the grain runs symmetrically down the neck which is pretty cool. Looking forward to buying more of these! Would definitely recommend it to someone starting a build or upgrading their #1!
B**U
Beautiful neck
Beautiful neck but mine came with several high frets. i was going to send it back for a refund but decided not to because its very hard to find a neck of this quality for that price i paid. i reset the frets myself and now all is well.
C**N
This has NO business being so good.
Before you read the negative comments, make sure your expectations reflect what you're paying. That said, for 65 dollars I was expecting a cheap neck to throw on a cheap body. NOPE. It's one of the best gloss necks I've ever felt. The finish on the board and neck is perfect if maybe a bit thick (which is down to preference). The frets are rolled slightly off the edge of the board to avoid sprout (which is a great feature) but they are ever so slightly different lengths. But you'll get that with almost any neck with similarly rolled frets under $500+. The fact that it's there blows me away for the price. Being completely real, there are better necks out there, but you'll be spending WAY more money and you'll hardly notice the difference. This punches so far above it's price point I'm amazed.
M**K
not all turkeys are alike...
a knockoff neck for a tele style guitar,but only if you are building one from scratch..nice looking,gloss finish and rounded ball end frets..wimpy,tiny nut(bone?)..looked like a direct replacement neck for my MONOPRICE INDIO tele style guitar.ha! was I wrong..I don't know what they use for measuring devices in china,but this neck fell into the neck pocket with about an 1/8" too narrow..nice neck for making a guitar from scratch! good value for the money...no money if you plan on putting this on an existing guitar..put it in the bonfire..la la!
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