noiseportrait
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Okay, so my girlfriend gave me this guitar. Well, it's not really a whole guitar, just everything below the missing bolt on neck. It was so dirty and ugly that I was going to toss it in my junk pile for spare parts, but then I cleaned it up and started to change my mind. It apears to be made of mahogany and has some decent quality gold plated hardware on it. The biggest surprise was when I took off the pickgaurd to look at the electronics and found it had seymour duncan humbuckers installed, so I figure it must have been an at least halfway decent guitar at one point in time. There is no brand name to be found on the body, but I figure it must be some generic, but decent quality fender copy from the 80s except it has 2 humbuckers and a coil splitter. I'd like put a neck on it and give it back to my girlfriend for her birthday, but I have no idea what I'm doing, and I have very little to spend. I've seen some cheap generic necks on ebay with frets and the nut already installed, so all I would have to buy are some tuners and I'd have a complete guitar. I'm just not sure about what I'm getting into. My first question is, is it easy to install a new neck on a guitar? I'm assuming that it's a standard fender design, but I have no way of knowing for sure. How much of a headache am I getting myself into? I was also wondering if these cheap necks and tuners you can buy off of ebay are even worth it. I don't need anything fancy, but I do want it to be playable. Can anyone give me some advice? I definitely do not have the cash to take this thing to a professional at this point in time.