Marco

Yeah, nice for you but...now you got me digging up my old tele project and trying to fix it finally...just got done gluing in a block of wood in the neck pocket, so I can reroute for the Mexi neck.

I also thicknessed off the top (because I'd butchered that pretty badly) and I'll be gluing on a new maple cap. I have to decide if I want it to be string-through this time.

With any luck, I'll finally have a decent sounding/playing tele. Thanks to you!

I'm happy that my questions got you back to work on the Tele!!!

Good luck with your project!!!

I also have very small hands & find that a rounder neck profile is much more comfortable, especially for chord work as the hand is supported all the way around the neck. As an example, try holding a baseball bat & then a spirit level - you'll see what I mean. I had a superstrat for a while with a very flat neck & it didn't suit me at all....I wanted to play with my thumb over the neck & I would get cramps within a few minutes, for classical style, thumb behind the neck playing it was great.

You could always modify the neck profile slightly as long as it is round enough - remember that you can always take away but not put back! I usually go for a a chunky "C" profile & then slightly flatten the thumb side to more of a "V" shape at the headstock end. If you look at the shape of your thumb & fore-finger you'll see why. I find it very comfortable for 1st position chord work

I tried to figure out your explanation yesterday and I made some experiments...

I actually find more comfortable for fingering with the thumb a V profile.

I made various fingering on my Sheraton (flatter) and on my acoustic EJ-200VS (it should be a V) and found more confortable the V profile!!!

I'll try more and more guitars to find the profile that most suits my hands.

Thank you very much for your precious suggestions!

Marco

I guess it depends on what your sound your going after.

I don't know if you have thought about the fret board rose wood sound different then maple.

Thanks all for the precious suggestions!!!

I heard that rosewood has a darker sound, but I was not considering it as a possible buy, to me (personal opinion, don't be offended) Fender are with maple necks...

I'm going after a bright sound, very clean...

I think I'll go for a "off the shelf" Mexican Tele and then I'll refine the sound to my taste...

Btw at the moment I'm using a Marshall JTM-60 with 3 x 10" Eminence cones, a Digitech TSR-12 and a few stompboxes including a Dunlop CryBaby, a Boss OD-2 and a Marshall Bluesbreaker...

I mainly play blues and rock from the sixties and seventies...

Cheers!

Thanks for the advice Mick!

And putting together a parts guitar isn't all that mysterious--it's just screwing together a bunch of parts. You could get the same experience buying furniture from Ikea.

This one made me laugh...

heres some links for you:

http://www.warmoth.com/guitar/necks/necks....n=back_profiles

http://www.usacustomguitars.com/contours.html

Thanks Desopolis!

Thanks Desopolis,

I'm not trying to save money, I'm just fascinated of assembling my own axe, a bit like Clapton's Blackie

I would not build anything, just assembly everything...

I forgot, my Strat has a maple neck and googling I found it should have a C profile (thanks mate for the correction) and the Sheraton a D profile (flatter, right?)...

I'm looking for the thinnest neck I can buy because my hands are small and I always wanted to finger the lower strings with my thumb...

My idea is to buy a good Tele neck, a decent Tele body and to slowly improve it with better pick-ups and hardware but they're not so easy to find here in Italy...

I'd like to achieve a good rhythm guitar with crystal clear tones, what can you suggest?

Thanks everybody!

Hi Prs Man and thanks for the prompt reply...

Yes I'd like to build it from parts, certainly not to build it from scratch, too difficult!!!

I've heard great things of Warmoth, but I found some genuine Mex Tele necks on ebay at reasonable prices and was wondering if they're as good as Warmoth's...

Still my problem is to choose the shape of the neck, does anybody know what shape of neck is the one on American Standard Strats like mine (1994)? I feel very confy with it...

My other guitar is a Sheraton II and feel comfortable too, I guess they're both D shaped, right?

See ya and good luck to you too!

Hi Everybody,

my name is Marco and I'm from Italy.

I love guitars and I want to assembly one on my own, the problem is that I have no experience at all...

Is it difficult?

I'd like a Telecaster but I don't know which shape of neck I should buy.

I have an American Standard Strat and feel very confortable with its neck, anyone can tell me which shape is it?

Also, is a Mexican Tele neck a good buy? Or should I go for a Allparts or Warmoth???

Thanks in advance!

Cheers!

Marco