Mighty Mite parts

[NJW]

Hello.

I recently encountered a problem with a Mighty Mite neck.

I was working on a Japanese fender jazz, and despite my best set up efforts for a customer, I was still having constant tuning issues. Eventually I narrowed it down to Frets 9, 10 and 11 being completely out. Hmmm....

So I check over everything again, making sure I've done nothing stupid, but I just can't resolve the problem. Customer asks me to look at it in more depth, so I take the neck off, and sure enough, it is not a Japanese Fender at all... as the neck was stamped with MIGHTY MITE. This then led me to discover that the pickups werent original either.

Anyway, I put the neck back on and checked the fret spacings with two different sets of calipers, and sure enough, the spacing on those frets was WAY off, like, not even remotely close. Playing a D on the low E string would result in closer to a # than the note itself, almost a full tone.

Anyone else experienced this with Mighty Mite? I would have though with modern mass production techniques, it wouldn't be that hard to have the fret spacing right!