This is the most beautiful guitar neck I have ever seen in person!! I am sooooo happy I pulled the trigger and ordered this neck! It is worth 5 times more than it's price! Beautiful 1 piece neck and fret board tiger striped flamed maple! With real abalone fret markers and a thick very glossy finnish!! Ok I only have 2 smaaaaall problems with this beauty! The nut is a cheap plastic and really skinny almost half as wide as a fender strat nut. And the 2nd problem is the frets! The ends are really sharp to the touch and not polished at all they look like they been on it for a long time! But I'm gonna straiten the neck flat and do a fret Level,crown and polish on it and file these fret ends down smooth! Thank God I got the tools and know how to do a job like this! But for a beginner this might be a problem! But my rating is 9.75 out of 10 stars ! It's a beauty and I can't wait to build this custom guitar!