A precisely machined, luxurious-looking, ergonomic, extremely slim neck with an ideally machined edge of the fingerboard, rounded "inside", so that the edge of the fingerboard and frets do not "irritate" the player's hand. It's made in Mexico... What upset me a little was that it fit too loosely in the hole for the original fingerboard... I don't know if they use different gauges in Mexico than in the US, or if it was made from badly dried wood and it only got old when the way to the customer. In the places where it fits into the body of the guitar, it is approximately 0.5 mm less thick than the original neck and approximately 0.2 mm narrower... It is then necessary to adjust the bridge, pickups, tension the neck or support it over the entire contact surface with the body of the guitar with some kind of hard mat capable of creating an acoustic short between the body and the neck... In no case do not use any kind of cardboard or soft plastic, you will add to the sound of your Strat...