NancyJohnson Posted November 21, 2022 Share Posted November 21, 2022 I'm curious, has anyone bought one of those Chinese sub-£100 Fender-styled necks off eBay? I have a project incoming from a mate and have been asked to source an inexpensive neck ("not a maple board"). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BreadBin Posted November 21, 2022 Share Posted November 21, 2022 I've had a few of the Kmise ones. Quality is surprisingly good for the price, a bit of fret dressing was required on one but no more than many more expensive bass guitars. I did have one that got stuck in a parcel centre in eastern Europe for several weeks. The seller refunded me only for it to randomly arrive about a month later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aidan63 Posted November 21, 2022 Share Posted November 21, 2022 (edited) I bought a fretless unlined PBass rosewood one, that turned out to be simply a poly coated unfretted board so had the side dots as per a fretted, nut cut as fretted and the rosewood is probably technical wood or Richlite or the like, but it works fine, plays fine once the nut was filed right, sounds okay and looks okay. And was super packaged in custom moulded polystyrene box and arrived in about 10 days with no extra customs hit. It was iirc £67 Edited November 21, 2022 by Aidan63 added detail Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NancyJohnson Posted November 21, 2022 Author Share Posted November 21, 2022 I suspect he's not particularly concerned what the woods are, so long as it's stable and straight. I can set up/level etc. without too much issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uk_lefty Posted November 21, 2022 Share Posted November 21, 2022 4 hours ago, NancyJohnson said: I'm curious, has anyone bought one of those Chinese sub-£100 Fender-styled necks off eBay? I have a project incoming from a mate and have been asked to source an inexpensive neck ("not a maple board"). Yes. It didn't go well... I ordered a lefty fender p style neck in black with black headstock and pearl blocks. I got a right handed all maple (I assume it was maple) neck with multiple issues like tuner holes not being drilled straight. There were other issues too. Too costly to send back, they agreed to refunding a big chunk of the cost and I sold it here on BC with full disclosure of issues to recover the cost I was left with. I solved the issue by being patient and waiting for a used Fender neck to turn up on eBay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NikNik Posted November 21, 2022 Share Posted November 21, 2022 I've had a couple of Strat ones that were really big profile but actually felt good. I also ordered a fat profile for a 51 P I knocked up a few years ago, Sadly, they made the headstock a few mm longer than it should have been. I couldn't trim it as that would have made the tuner baseplate proud of the headstock. Also, after a few months the rod develop a rattle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paolo85 Posted November 21, 2022 Share Posted November 21, 2022 Interesting topic. Is it worth mentioning the specific names of the suppliers, on ebay or anywhere else? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aidan63 Posted November 21, 2022 Share Posted November 21, 2022 my seller was junqwan2 I don't think he lists anymore 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnDaBass Posted November 21, 2022 Share Posted November 21, 2022 I had a few Kmise maple neck & fret board Jazz types and were fine, really good value for money. But the best ones were from "jingwan" maple neck & fret board, white bound with MoP(?) block inlays and gloss finish. Two were '51 P type with Jazz wideth neck and one was typical Jazz type. All three were great, delivered within a week and you can see the results on some of my Build diaries. As @Aidan63 said the seller seems to have disappeared off the Bay. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kodiakblair Posted November 21, 2022 Share Posted November 21, 2022 Bought necks from Kmise UK and Jinwan. The Kmise necks were something daft like £24, 3 maybe 4 year down the line still well impressed by them. I also found the Kmise UK folks to be up front and honest. I placed an order just as China went into lockdown then had a message from them saying they expected some delays and it'd be best to cancel and find the parts elsewhere. Being an derrière I told them it was OK and I'd wait , took them 6 weeks of messages before I followed their advice 😆 Another time they miss some eBay time limit for shipping, that message was " We've run late with dispatch so refunded your money but goods are in transit. Could you contact us when the neck arrives so we can issue an invoice." Couple of days later the neck turned up, I asked for the bill and happily paid the balance. Have 4 necks from Jinwan, not through eBay but their Ali-Ex store front; worked out cheaper 🙂 Proper chunky 51 P-bass necks, been very happy with those as well. 3rd eBay seller to look at is 'twincam'. Willie gets the same necks/bodies as the 'Musicily' brand sells, ships from England so you won't be waiting long. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
police squad Posted November 22, 2022 Share Posted November 22, 2022 I had a fretless maple board P bass neck from eyparts a few years ago. Dots in the wrong place (but I knew that) and I still have it. Not a bad neck at all and it was cheap too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodders Posted November 25, 2022 Share Posted November 25, 2022 I bought a fretless P neck with a (presumably) rosewood fingerboard, apart from as @police squad mentions the dots were in the wrong place it was a very good quality neck and finished very well. Still have it and play it. Less than £100 I''m sure. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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