Leo Jaymz Electric Guitar Neck Collection Series - One Piece Selected Roasted Flame Maple - 22Frets, 9.5","C" Shape (Collection ST Maple)

As soon as I get this mounted to a body, I’ll update the review with final thoughts. In the meantime, let’s talk about what I can see right off the bat.The model I purchased is a tinted lacquer gloss finish roasted maple neck with rosewood fingerboard. It most closely resembles the Squier neck on my Classic Vibe 60’s model Squier Strat, although that neck has the tinted lacquer with regular maple rather than roasted.There’s a lot of good here. The neck looks great. The wood is pretty much flawless, and the fretboard, dots and side markers all look great. Out of the box, the neck is straight as an arrow. While I haven’t strung it up yet, it looks like the nut may need a little filing unless you like a high action. We’ll see how it looks when it’s mounted though.The frets are probably the big weak point. They’re smooth and the ends are all nicely rounded (which was a big surprise), but they’re not all the perfect length. Some of them weren’t centered fully, with a gap on one side and the fret end sticking out a little in the other. For these I was able to minimize the impact by tapping them with a small fret hammer, nudging them in the correct direction. Still, some other frets seemed to be cut just a little too short, leaving a small gap even when the other side was flush. This could affect playability if it ends up causing the strings to fall off the edge too early, but I won’t know if it’s an issue until I get it mounted and strung up. I’ve included some pictures where you can see the inconsistent gap along the edges, these were all taken after I had adjusted the worst offenders. Fret height was consistent though, I didn’t need to adjust that at all.The truss rod turns with a 4mm Allen wrench. I made an adjustment to add a small amount of bow and I could feel the tension, but so far I’ve seen no detectable change. Maybe it needs to be under load before it can be measured; I’ll add that info to my update when I do it.Finally, just a note: as expected, you’ll need to drill your own pilot holes before mounting to a body.If the neck ends up plying well when the installation and setup is complete, this will be the best “cheap” neck I’ve ever purchased. Primarily because of how well-rounded the fret ends are. So many other discount necks have frets that are just clipped off at a steep angle, causing sharp fret ends as well as strings that slide off the neck when you fret too close to the edge. I’m really, really hoping that the small gaps on some of the frets don’t cause an issue, because I really want to love this neck, and I want to believe that you can get something of reasonable quality for under $150.

I recently purchased a re-fin '70's Tele body on FB that the inside looked like it was someone's practice routing piece, just a mess, and the body (while in good condition) has gobs of lacquer overspray then finished off with a coat or two of poly. Because of the mentioned issues I was into this body for very little money. I build several guitars a year for personal use or for friends/family and had very low expectations of salvaging this cutting board so I took a chance on the Leo Jaymz neck. I ordered the T-Style maple neck and when it showed up it looked exactly like the photo, flamed and smooth - but the neck route on the Tele body had been carved out for a Strat. (Just my luck - If I would've paid more attention I would've caught it.)I returned it and purchased the S-Style w/Rosewood. It was delivered a few days ago and I left it in the box. Today I had my fingers crossed that it would fit and that I would receive the same quality as the one I returned. I lucked out on both. The flame is unreal and has some amazing Tiger's eye 3D qualities in the right light. It's straight right out of the box, the fret edges are incredibly smooth all 22 frets. It needed some leveling on the back of the neck and right at the heel where it appeared some lacquer had built up and was thicker on the treble side. I had leveled the guitar body's neck pocket ahead of time. At first, I thought it might be twisted because looking down the neck it was perfectly straight. After some measuring and 400 grit sandpaper at the heel, it finally lined up perfectly! It settled nicely, paired with some locking tuning machines and a bigbsy, the neck plays like butter. It's a smidge larger than a modern C in my opinion. I like larger SRV/JM D/C shaped necks and this one feels right in between. The nut needed a little love which is to be expected. The fretboard was a tad dry upon arrival, some lemon oil opened it up and the grain runs symmetrically down the neck which is pretty cool. Looking forward to buying more of these! Would definitely recommend it to someone starting a build or upgrading their #1!

Received it today and was impressed with it out of the box. The finish is nice, the fret ends are nicely smoothed. It's not installed or adjusted yet but so far so good. I saw reviews saying the fret rod was only accessible through the heel, which would neccisitate a neck removal and re-install to adjust the neck, which would be a nightmare and I wouldn't even consider doing it. The one I received had the normal head stock hole with visible adjuster and no hole in the heel. If I received one without, it would be RTS.

I had really low expectations for this guitar neck. But it’s great! The flame maple is beautiful and it’s perfectly finished. The frets are smooth and rounded. I’m going to buy another one!

Read reviews, issues with the fretboard. Ok.Arrived, sure enough. Everything else looked great, wish this was one issue they would fixSo instead I bought a neck for 350 instead…. Made in 94 outta Japan. :-/ just wish the fretboard was ok and it woulda saved me, plus looked better on my build. You can’t have inlays that are obviously not correct.Looked great, packaged great, just…. ???

I am very pleased. Perfect finish, perfectly dressed fret ends, fits my body precisely, straight as an arrow.I'll be buying more

I love the way this neck looks on the guitar I built. However, the buyer should be aware that the fret work is not great. For Instance, on the neck which I purchased the 3rd fret was high at the high E string because the fret was not secure. I had to correct this problem.

This is a nice neck with well done fret ends. Buyers should be aware that the truss rod access is in the heel.