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This is actually a really nice quality neck, very surprised. Neck shape is a little thicker than expected but okay. Frets were seated pretty good but levelled and crowned anyway. Fitted Wilkinson tuners. Went in pocket on body very well. Only thing i dont like is the shitty nut which will go soon.

What are your thoughts on the look?

Ill take $150 for the squier maple neck if anybody wants it?

I was a bit unsure till I saw it, but I reckon thats pretty bloody awesome I'm not a fan of tele headstocks either My favourite tele is the 70's deluxe with the big headstock, ftw!

Thanks BG, I like how it looks now. Strange to think the only original parts left on it is the switch plate and body!

Just ordered two roller string trees for the headstock.

Going to find out how much it cost to have either the nut replaced, think its cheap shitty plastic or at least slotted properly.

I also dont like the 6 way barrel saddles in the bridge, they float around a bit, the height adjustment grub screws are always coming loose and rattle and they stick out way to much whem palm muting, i can just see a bloody pick hand at any moment.

I have always preferred tele headstock to the strat one. courses for horses etc. rosewood look is good on new one. yeah, sort the nut out. plastic can be okay-ish, but quite often cheap nuts are not cut well, which is the big prob.

Heres the saddles im not happy with

replace the whole ash tray with one that has compensated saddles in brass perhaps. Just have to make sure of metric so drill holes line up. USA teles use US imperial

Allparts one:

One of the Tele Types on here might be able to tell you if Squire measurements for the drill holes and string spacing differ from Fender USA. Usually these things do differ. Asia made stuff is metric. Compensated brass saddles certainly look the part. Just a matter of being sure about the fit to your gat.

I happen to like the ashtray bridge, i dont like 3 way saddles compensated or not as i like to have things intonated 100% with individual ones. Im thinking maybe of replacing the existing saddles with Gotoh type in the hope the shape of them hold together and the grub screws are flush with the top of each saddle. I like my action low to medium and the existing grub screws stick out about 3mm and are as sharp as. CUrrent saddles move up and down and seperate from eachother when chugging hard, tuning goes out.

A decent three saddle setup compensated will have intonation as good as using six saddles. That's the whole idea of them. I am not sure if the three saddle setup is as much of a key ingredient of the classic tele sound as some might claim, but I would think it does make a wee difference, because of having six points of contact with the ashtray rather than twelve. Certainly makes it look more old school tele.

The ashtray setup is supposed to affect the way the strings vibrate into into the body somehow. Teles with the ashtray have more bite and snarl than ones that do not in my experience. Was amazed at my first blat on a tele and how grunty they are compared to a strat.

Aquila Rossa wrote:A decent three saddle setup compensated will have intonation as good as using six saddles.

Standard tuning maybe, with drop tuning I'm not so sure.

I agree Aquila about the ashtray, im gonna keep it, just think the saddles in it suck. In regard to tuning this is either in drop D or way down C#

That neck looks cool.
But , for me , a tele needs the three brass saddle bridge. Wilkinson make a nice compensated one that will intimate fine. I believe the brass saddles and the downward pressure of two strings on each saddle has a lot to do with that 'tele' sound. Never played a 6 saddle tele I liked.

Intonate fine in standard tuning, but like the grinder of gods says, anything else and you're stuffed!