Any opinions on Carvin neck??

[Mr. C]

I'm looking for a maple neck with an ebony fretboard and found one at Carvin for $139, with Carvin's own peghead, and tilt peghead. I'm wondering if anyone has tried these or would recommend them. I've been looking at Warmoth and USA Guitar necks with Tele pegheads which run anywhere from $250 on up. Only drawback I see is the neck is unfinished. Is that difficult to do?

[lpdeluxe]

What I hear is that Carvin necks don't fit Fender (and Fender clone) bodies.

[apl]

The Carvin 6 string neck fits Strat pockets. A tung oil finish is very easy to do and it's smoooooooovvvve, baby!

What they don't show is all the options you can get on that neck, different fret wires, other headstocks, other fingerboards, etc. Go to their discussion boards and ask in the guitar forum.

[spectrescape]

Agreed with apl - tung oil is the way to go. And if you ding it, just sand and oil again, and it's good as new.

If the natural finish isn't your thing, Rockler sells a nice tung oil/dye combo. I put a Carvin neck on a Les Paul copy body, made the neck black with the Rockler oil, and it's awesome.

[AlfredB]

i cant comment much on "replacement" necks, but i recently got a carvin dc127 off of ebay for next to nothing, and its my favourite neck of my 8 or so guitars ...

overall its a very well put together guitar, w/ lots of great detail, eg. the cavities are lined w/ copper-tape and the screws of the back-plate dont go into the wood but rather into steel inserts...

dont care particularly for their pickups, tho ... somewhat gutless and bright to brittle ... but Mr. Kent Armstrong is helping me out ...

so overall... 2 thumbs up for their quality

br
alfred

[apl]

Originally Posted by AlfredB

dont care particularly for their pickups, tho

Which pups are in it? People are raving about the C22B. Your bridge might be a C22T which is usually described as you did.

[Newbie-Doo]

wide and flat like jacksons. Solid as a rock. Fit MY warmoth body no problem. Sounds and plays great.
Tung oil is easy, wipe on, let sit 5 minutes wipe off, let dry overnight, repeat.

Wail on your hip guitar.

[AlfredB]

Originally Posted by apl

Which pups are in it? People are raving about the C22B. Your bridge might be a C22T which is usually described as you did.

the standard ones, i guess ... the bridge is really an ice-pick type of pu... I do like to run both in single coil - has a nice and chimey sound to them (when played clean)

also i have a maple fretboard that might add some highs ... to be honest its a dream guitar and I plan on putting Kent Armstrongs in ther for "forever yours"

[apl]

Originally Posted by AlfredB

the bridge is really an ice-pick type of pu..

That very much sounds like the C22T. Try asking around on the Carvin discussion boards. If you get a C22B (a lot smoother) you can eBay the C22T for about half.