How did this happen?
Hello! Wanted to get your opinions on this.
Local builder to me was attempting to fit this neck to the guitar body above (a guitar body that he personally built for this exact neck) and it cracked. He said it was due to the quality of the neck.
Now, I realize this is a Chinese neck. I took a gamble out of morbid curiosity. However, between multiple posts here on Reddit from this subreddit, reviews on eBay and other sites it seems that the only major complaints were just that some needed fretwork and swapping the nut in worst case scenario.
He said it wasn’t his fault and I half believe him and half wonder how on earth something like this could happen. He claimed it happened when he was trying to “fit the neck to the body”. He literally built the body for this neck, there should’ve been nothing to fit if proper measurements were taken. Now, if the wood were brittle when he was drilling to neck pocket screws that makes sense.
Also, note the bottom left where it looks like a screw was drilled in the completely wrong spot. Neck wasn’t like that when I gave it to him.
Would love your input!