I Bought The Cheapest Guitar Neck On Amazon....It's FANTASTIC! 

My new PRS (Peter Ron Smythe) Sliver Sky 😂😂😂 Enjoy :)

I did this with a rosewood fingerboard neck from China through Amazon to replace a maple fingerboard neck on my Squier Telecaster Custom. It worked great after setting up and adjusting the truss rod. Drilling the holes was scary as you only get one go to get it right. No problem with putting the tuners on. A good project.

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I think it's a positive that it's slightly wider. That allows you get a super tight neck joint and also gives a little wiggle room for any potential variations.

I’ve put some builds together using necks like these. Some I’ve gotten the paddle headstock and cut my own shape and others I kept as is. Generally they need some fret work and fiddling to fit in the pocket but by and large, perfect for a project guitar.

I love telling this story. I have a 1975 (Lawsuit era) Ibanez Deluxe '59er. The truss rod broke on the original neck so I went to Amazon and found a Chinese manufacturer that made me a mahogany neck from pictures I sent them of the Ibanez neck. They even cut the head stock with the Les Paul "mustache" cut. $68.78 to my door. Plays like butta!

That neck actually matches so good on that guitar. The cream color and black inlays looks so good with the zebra humbucker

I've bought several cheap necks like that and I've been amazed at the quality!👍😎🎸🎶

That Donner guitar has a great colour and goes well with that neck with the birds. Great video as always.

I just put one of these on my homebuilt Strat and after some sanding and oiling, a black Tusq nut and black locking tuners it's really nice and look good.

I have to say that the maple on the fretboard is a pretty close color match to the cream coil of the bridge pickup, making your eye tie the two together as a stylistic feature. I always prefer a maple fretboard for some reason as well, so I expect it will feel better besides. I'm with you on the green transparent finish as well.

Man i love watching your videos. I have yet to attempt doing anything on a guitar as far as customization but watching ur vids gets me so xcited to eventually try. Love ur vids and especially ur budget videos like this.

I have to imagine its CNC'd and generally machine built. When I talk to young kids who play and love vintage stuff, they really don't know about the days when your intonation went sideways at the 14th fret or tuss rods that didn't work or didn't exist. LOL! Glad quality gear is more accessible!

I bought about 8 MIC necks on Ebay over the years, never disappointed. Always the best to have no pocket holes at start. Got another 12-string neck that have pocket holes to replace my 1st 12-string neck of my double-neck body, had some high E strings course issue, but I finally corrected by reinstalling the bridge 3 mm to left, now the neck is very fine. Got 3 Strat 22-fret necks , 3 bass necks, a 7-string guitar neck. I really like them all, better than whole cheap guitars

Would have enjoyed evaluation of the frets. Are they some weird Chinese soft alloy or are they true Nickle silver? How were quality of fret ends? Did it need a level and polish to set action low or was it ready to play after bolting on? Did you need to shim for action or was it good. You're normal attention to evaluating was a bit lacking on this one

From the Amazon listing it suggests it’s an unfinished neck so I’m glad the “finish” feels smooth :D

On the neck fitting, better that they made the heel slightly over-sized than ending up with it not fitting in many bodies as it is always a lot easier to sand down than to mess about with shims. I actually would prefer buying a neck and / or body for a project without hardware because it allows me to select what I want without having a load of extra junk lying around which is what happens with a lot of the DIY kit guitars. If I was doing this project in Darrell's shoes I would have used the body that is sitting in his apple crates (in the background) but I would also be tempted to meme on the design by putting something on the headstock like 'SRP Budget Skyline'.

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You can trademark body shapes. Gibson and PRS have quite a few, and enforce them. Fender dropped the ball by tolerating clones for decades and then trying to argue it was a distinctive shape only associated with them. By that time it was too late, the judge ruled it was public domain and nobody owned it. Ron Bienstock has done a few RU-vid interviews on the history and myths. He was the intellectual property lawyer on most of the famous guitar lawsuits. And a guitar player himself.

Saw this video and picked up a neck a week later. And no lie, it feels fabulous! I won't know fully till I'm finished building the guitar it's getting attached to, so for now I wait.

These PRS necks are built thru the Pallet Return System🤫😆 Darrell that really does look great!!

I ordered one via AliExpress... Should be coming in a week or two. Can't wait to install it soon!

The Silver Sky neck also has a scarf joint, even the American made ones do

Fun fact: You actually can trademark a guitar body shape... to a point. Generally, you can trademark a design of just about anything (in the US at least) provided that 1) you show that people associate the design with your company, and 2) it isn't functional (trademarks can't be used to prevent competitors from making a competing product that looks the way it does due to its function or nature). It's the first point that explains why you see Fender strat and tele copies, and Gibson Les Paul copies - basically, the two companies didn't bother to enforce and protect their trademark rights in their body shapes back in the 50's/60's, and so everyone started copying them. When everyone else is copying you, then people no longer associate your design with a single provider - it ceases being a trademark. It also didn't help Fender, for the strat, that its body design was highly functional - the tummy cut and top curve let the guitar fit a person more comfortably, and the double-cut design offers better upper fret access. Thus, Fender would have been limited in any event in what they could claim was theirs, even if they had enforced their rights from the start. For Gibson, it was that they didn't enforce for literally decades. Also, at some point for a given manufacturer, if you don't go after them, you lose the right, under either a statute of limitations or a similar court doctrine; it's not considered fair to sit by for years while someone builds a business that infringes your rights, and then later sue when they're successful. This later point is why Warmoth and Charvel are allowed to produce necks with headstocks that copy the Fender Strat, but everyone else can't. Warmoth and Charvel had been making necks with strat-shape headstocks for years before Fender decided to go against them, and a court said that they had effectively lost the right to pursue those two makers. If you look on the back of a Warmoth strat-shape headstock, it will say that it's produced under license from Fender. That license is a direct result of that litigation. Any newcomers that try to copy Fender's strat headstock, though, would find themselves on the receiving end of a cease and desist from Fender's lawyers. EDIT: Charvel is now owned by Fender, as has been pointed out. I don’t think they were at the time of the litigation, though.

Hey Darrell! I love, LOve, LOVE a Maple neck with a Maple Fretboard! I think that it not only LOOKS CLEAN, it SOUNDS CLEAN... I think that it just sounds like "Hi-Def" compared to "Analog" when playing chords. Especially complex chords like diminished, etc... Anyway bud, I LOVE the channel! Don't change a thing! God bless and take care...

Yes, I am using the same neck together with a strat body, very good feeling. You can buy them even cheaper from Aliexpress.

Same thing here. Ordered a cheap ass strat neck with an arguably rosewood fretboard. Deliciously chunky and nicely finished frets, without a trace of sprout. My current favourite

That was excellent! Got me thinking about a strat mini I was toying with putting a tele neck on it.

I had a warped neck on my Squire. Binned it and got a cheap Amazon maple neck. Now it plays great. Amazing if you're in a budget. After all, it's only wood and metal....

Couple of things Darrell re: a "real" PRS. The Silver Sky seems to have a "reversed" headstock compared to most PRS guitars. i.e. it is the upper bout side headstock tip that is taller rather than the lower side on stock PRS guitars. I recall vaguely that John Mayer asked for it to be that way. Same thing with the tuners, most PRS that I have seen they are 3x3 in line. Staggered seems to be a Silver Sky thing only. For neck fitment, you'll almost always have to do some fettling. People get tripped up with putting official Fender strat necks on Teles as the pocket is different. Even between years and production runs you'll see difference. Even a blunter/worn router bit will change the radius of the bottom of the neck pocket. Let alone going aftermarket from companies like Warmoth and others. I'll take too tight fitment over loose any day. I've used a cheap eBay neck on a project before - it arrived dead straight, frets did need a bit of a level and I rounded over the fret ends but it's been fine for years.

So Etsy sells really high quality decals. You could probably just slap a fancy DGB on the head! Just an idea.

Thank you i have been searching for a neck just like that!

I've bought a few chinese guitar necks for part casters, I've never had a problem. Just needed to polish the frets a little . Great necks

Well, it looks like the neck's finished quite well. No mention of needing to do any sort of fretwork, so that's a plus.

I got a cheap neck for my Telecaster. I had a bit of fine tuning to do. Replaced the plastic nut, cleaned up the frets, and had to re shape the neck. But it's a great playing neck now

wow..i wish that souped up donner was for sale..i would definetly buy it..it looks super hot with that prs clone neck..wow.!!! IM FLOORED..IT LOOKS AWESOME..GREAT JOB DARELL..URE THE BEST!!

I bought this same neck for a build. Needed fret work and the ttuss rod was a a bit "floppy" but it adjusted ok. Nut is total crap and glued in crooked. Worked out OK though!

Would have loved to see a walk through of the actual fitting of the neck.

I bought one with a rosewood board and dots. Put in on my Bullet Tele body. Works quite nicely.

The heal looks more like a tele neck, not a strat. The strat neck heal is slightly rounded while the tele heal is flatter, almost squared off with the exception to the edges. Strat necks will fit on teles but tele necks will not work on a strat. The reason is that heal. While a strat neck will touch the body at the heal, a tele wont touch on a strat which means you will have intonation problems.

i did this to the same donner with a dark roasted flamed maple and rosewood fb and it turned out fantastic.

Cool bro. I love Frankensteining rigs together. Glad you did this bro. Can beat the price if you desperate to slap a rig together🎸

Ordered. I have an old strat-style kit body that’s been laying around my garage for years, just waiting for something different for a neck.

I would like it better if it just had dots for fret markers. A little too tight would be better than too loose. LOL Nothing wrong with doing a little sanding.

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Looks great! I trust it would even look great on a Lefty

It shows how easy it is to make a good neck if you have a big factory with modern CNC machines.

Guitar Kit World makes a cool PRS style kit. Mine came out wicked 🤘

What a cool axe! Unique on a budget.

I prefer replacement necks that need a little sanding, I would rather sand a little than shim. I don't want it to fit loose in my neck pocket. I think this brings a great new look to the already pretty nice budget Donner guitar

Looks really cool!

I like it , I love the budget reviews

Fun little project. Did you drill pilot holes with the neck in place, mark the hole locations then drill? I’ve never done a neck that was pre drilled and would feel a little nervous about ending up with a misalignment.

God bless ya, needed a review like this

I'm enjoying watching ur vedio bro..good job

Cool looking Peter Ron Simmons guitar Darrell!

Black knobs and selector switch would be killer on that.

You're a mad lad! I love it!

I have the same one I put on a tele,I was impressed, I'm also interested on how to finish it?

I've priced out fender necks they range from 75.00 to 400.00 depending on the fretboard and frets . There frets are usually the same quality, maybe a little difference in edges but they're lot many more companies coming out with better , and cheaper than the big boys , just have to look around you'd be surprised

I've purchased a couple necks off of amazon. One an ibanez style and one fender style. No real issues except the plastic nuts and a few frets needing some work.

Great call on choosing that body that Guitar is stunning

It would be great to see the drilling phase

I like maple fret boards vs the darker so im gonna have to check this out.

It appears that the heel end of the neck is square like a tele not rounded like a strat. Seems like this could possibly cause some fitting challenges. I suppose the fretboard extension would cover up any gaps.

Looks good, man

That looks good. I like maple fretboards.

That looks really good.

Turned out nice! You forgot to do the fancy script DBG on the headstock! That needs to be another video... slide slip a logo on! :D

Awesome neck !!! i want one of those

I've bought 5 of these inexpensive necks from KMise and they've been quite good. Fret work was good with only minor polishing needed. The plastic nut wasn't so good on some so I replaced those.

That would be perfect for an older guitar that has been thrashed and worn out from several fret jobs. A lot cheaper than replacing the frets. Of coarse I'm refering to a cheaper guitar, You wouldn't do that to a classic. However a good option for some. Well done

That neck is pretty cool, especially since you don't have to use string trees!

putting that on the wish list

Would've been nice to have a quick side to side tone comparison :D

I'd like more info on how it feels and plays, however. Are frets as smooth as they look? Jagged fret ends? Were/are the frets level? Dead spots? Etc. That said, the neck looks great on the Donner, especially with that body finish.

Need a bunch more info: Was the neck radius consistent w the body? What size are the frets? Were the frets / do the frets need to be dressed / crowned / polished? Were fret ends sharp? Does the truss rod work correctly? Does it seem dead flat if the rod is set that way (no weird bumps or twists?) Kinda surprised by the review being “yeah it looks cool and almost fits and the PRS one is nicer.”

I think it's fairly expected that some cheap parts will need some additional work, that's what makes more expensive parts, well, more expensive. More work has been done, not generally the materials that contribute to the added cost.

Just put one on my Slick SL57!! Killer!!

Darrell, I am wondering what is your opinion on a builder/beginner strat in between a Indio Cali DLX, EART SSS, Donner DST-400, or Bullet HSS HT Strat.

I am glad to hear it's too tight better than too loose.

new neck looks good,

I love how the blonde makes the humbucker cover look so much better. Now it pops rather than being kind of odd-ballish.

Like the old hot rod guys used to say, "that's why they call it custom, ya have to make it fit." Hey, looks great Darrell!

Very nice, good job, are you going to keep it that way?

Hey Darrell I would like to see a review of a duesenburg guitar ,yes they are very expensive 3600 bucks but the F body triple pickup black and gold version is gorgeous!!! THANX

Nice. I've seen that neck before on Amazon and wanted to buy one. Any problem with fret sprout??

Does the neck fit into a carry-on luggage bag? If so, have u tried a bolt-on neck insert kit for safe repeated neck detachment? Can the inserts be accomplished with a mere drill as some manufacturers claim, or does it actually require a drill press to effectively do this? Do installed insert kits reduce sustain, or can they be properly installed?

I might buy a neck like this to build a part's guitar but I wouldn't use it as a replacement for a better guitar. I think i would leave the original neck on the Donner.

I think that neck would look better on a Tele body or even a Mosrite. Simple dot inlays or Gibson like trapezoids would be fine and much easier to install.

Nice find!!!

Darrell. What we all want to know is how is the fret work? Fret ends? Are there super hi or low frets??

Darryl..! I don’t need to hear “ it’s shiny “ I got to see you pilot mark drill and fit.. please do this again… what a cop out. You used to do this…!

The headstock on the knock off neck is more akin to a standard PRS headstock shape. The John Mayer has it's own unique headstock shape.

One of the first things I do with a new-for-me guitar is remove the truss rod cover and rear tremolo plate - and they stay off and in the case.

Hey, you left out all the important info on this neck. Is the intonation right on all the frets? Did you have to dress the frets? Was the neck straight? How close was the height of the strings compared to the old neck?

Hi Darrell. If you are searching for a new affordable guitar, you need to check out Eko guitars. They are Italian. I've just bought the Aire lite Sunburst (as my first electric guitar), and it looks good and sounds good. I don't know if this brand sells guitars in Canada or USA but definitely, go for it if you want, for your videos. Mine was around 200 euros.

I'm betting PRS has trademarked the bird inlays. I don't know for sure but I'd put my money on it. Great idea and awesome match for the neck. and BTW, the necks are already gone.

Hey thanks for the video. Would you say that the donner neck pocket is the same as a fender pocket. I have a scalloped neck that needs a home and I think a Donner would be a good candidate. Thanks

I'd say its time to dust off that ID44, Darrell! 😁