Best after market tele necks?

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Brooks Montgomery
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Best after market tele necks?

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There seems to be many tele players on this forum:

Wondering if any of you have a recommended after-market thin c-style shape tele neck brand and source.
I have a “franken-tele” modeled after the Clapton Blind Faith model. It has a strat neck on a tele body. The neck is very “baseball bat-ish” u-shaped and just feels clubby to me.

Would like the frets to be dressed as good as possible pre-project.

I plan on doing the replacement myself as a project and would like the nut to have slots started, that I can finish for my strings. Appreciate any advice.
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I've bought several necks here for various projects I've built.

https://stratosphereparts.com/necks/

The necks have been pretty much ready to go, just bolt on and go.

I'm not exactly sure what the business model is here, I think they buy fenders new and then part them out.
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Thank you Joseph—looks like they have a good selection.
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fender necks

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Warmoth has everything you need.
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Thanks Richard.
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Sometimes you can find a good, used neck on the Telecaster Forum (TDPRI.com) in the classified section.
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