Well, the reason to exchange the neck was that I have long fingers that work best with a Baja neck shape. The orig. neck was way to flat for me.
I had the body neck pocket reroutet to accept the orig. Fender dimensions. That's were Tokai went their own way.
I just came back from one of my guitar shop visits that I'm doing during the last 10 days. We have a lot of guitars to test ride in Berlin, so I could do extensive comparos.
After fine tuning and letting the strings and neck set in w. tension and playing time for a week or so, I definitely know by now, that this latest parto creation is an incredibly balanced canon w. a sweet tone you can dream of. I'm not euphoric, it's objectively true. Even the plugged in tone with my hand wound Bridge PU is better than expected.
The guitar is well balanced with a healthy emphasis in the mid range tonal spectrum. It pretty closely sounds like my orig. 63 strat which is my killer guitar for over 30 years in my possession.
If I were a wizard, I would give that Tele a tad more guts in the lows. But that would have to be a temp. experiment.
On Fender guitars there's a fine line between just right and too boomy in the low A and low E string when played amplified. The fat Baja neck contributes a lot to the sound which out of my experience is a 70%neck/30%body ratio result.
I'm very pleased w. the guitar, soundwise and cosmetically.
On request, here's my Tokai neck. Note that the pre owner has replaced the decal by an other one of his own creation "Fremder" which is the German term for foreigner or alien.
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