Project well on the way - good parts help - Thank you Warmoth
65 neck - got to have the "hockey stick"- 2 sets of vintage tuners
"Split Jag" body - Blue Stain
Gotoh 12 bridge
Went together like a dream, even with just a quick bolt together and string
Two really nice finds for parts
1 - 3D...
I've had "vintage" Fenders with real "Skunk Stripe" necks and I never thought they had anything to do with the sound and they were a pain. Every string change, every move, and it was setup time. And it you had a Rosewood Fingerboard it took "infinite patience" got get the action right.
And...
The double-action truss-rod does not anchor to the neck - it basically sits in the routed slot and just pushes against the neck.
I think of its action like a steel bar inside the neck, you adjust the bar and it transfers the pressure to the neck. But it has no anchor.
As for "relief"/action...
The neck uses the dual action truss-rod
It "floats" in the slot - Warmoth actually explains how it works as well as anyone - look at "Necks"
Hearing that someone else had to really "crank" the tension on the initial heel-nut adjustment makes me less concerned that I need to go back and add a...
I just received a '65 12-String Neck and on first looks, I saw nothing to indicate any issues
A visual check down the fretboard did not reveal any apparent bowing, either forward or back.
(I've purchased/owned several Warmoth necks with the "Modern Construction" and all have been almost perfect...
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