G&L Neck on a Fender Body

[SamIV]

Anyone ever attempted this. I know it will not fit stock, but I have a Tribute neck lying around and was thinking about getting a body to mount it to. I want an ASAT style boyd with a tummy tuck. This will be a travel guitar of mine and not looking to carry an expenive guitar to the job site. If you did, did you resize the neck or the neck pocket. Did you remove the 22nd fret with no overhang or remove wood and leave an overhang of fretboard?

[Elwood]

How about going this route-
http://www.ebay.com/itm/G-L-Tribute-ASA ... 54049c09e0

Didn't check for a tummy cut though.

[guitar_ed]

Check the width of the G&L neck vs. the Fender neck pocket. That is frequently a problem.

edg

[Fumble fingers]

I would go with the Tribute body and make things easy ..... I actually held my first tribute in my hands this weekend at my local G&L dealer , he had 11 G&L's in stock ( thats 11 more in stock than they had last year !!), 5 of them tributes and I am pretty impressed with the tributes .... for the money I don't think you can beat the Tribute

[SamIV]

A tribute body would make it easy to mount, but none have the tummy tuck. Also have an import body that has a larger neck pocket, but still have to deal with the longer heel.

[bloodied_fingers]

A tribute body would make it easy to mount, but none have the tummy tuck. Also have an import body that has a larger neck pocket, but still have to deal with the longer heel.

Do you ever play on that 22nd fret?

I haven't done this before, but I would probably just cut the 22nd fret off. It sounds like the body might be "non-standard" to FMIC dimensions (if the pocket is wider) so you might have to be careful to get the scale length correct.

Alernatively, if you find a cheap body adding the tummy cut isn't terrible hard either, and is certainly more forgiving. But you would have more finish work to do.