I've got it!
Full-contact neck plates. I'm going to set up a company with a name that is either 1) A pick and mix of common and cherished phrases, such as 'Blues vintage guitar research limited', 2) an Eastern European surname that cascades hard consonants and Zs into each other in a way that nobody pronounces right but sounds disarmingly simple to pulled off correctly or 3) A brutish, bellicose and not entirely PC brand name that draws in the Nugent crowd, like "Rebel guitar alliance" or something like that. I can either have a bloatware-ridden website replete varying transparencies, smooth borders and reams of sub-menus with spurious graphs and diagrams or a circa 1995 Geocities-type website with a crude .gif of a Confederate flag fluttering merrily and a brash, in-yo-face Christian message scrolling incessantly across the top of the screen. No middle ground.
Leo Fender knew a trick or two, and didn't choose a flat, rectangular neck plate by accident. The neck plate functions like (your favorite hackneyed car analogy here) connecting the (part X) to (part Y). Modern manufacturers overlook the tonal importance of this component, and modern plates often have casting errors and sub-par chrome plating, all of which sap the tone from your instrument. Our new, higher mass full-contact neck plate is made from low-background steel/aircraft-grade titanium/pot metal, just like Leo used to do it. After all you wouldn't use (inferior car product A) on your prized (classic muscle car B), would you?
And wait it doesn't end there! A higher density neck plate will actually reduce eddy currents in your instrument, restoring highs. You will notice an increase in volume, sustain, girth and a number of other subtly veiled references to erectile dysfunction we sprinkle into this sort of marketese. Don't believe us? Listen to what a bunch of unqualified 2nd tier guitarists have to say about it!
Take it from me, I taught Stevie everything he knew about tone.
Cesar diaz
I've installed these on both my working guitars. They play like butter now.
Dude that did some TV work in the '90s
Honestly the difference is like night and day, plenty more top.
Deaf old rocker that played in obscure unloved '80s incarnation of UFO and was 2nd guitarist in the John Entwistle band for two months.
I can hear the difference. If you can't then too bad, I must just have better ears.
Guy on forum that traded a cache of potentially stolen 50s Les Pauls Juniors for a mint '66 Ford Mustang on an Internet forum in 2004 and still garners some notoriety as a result.
For the best results, liberally screen your neck cavity with wrinkled copper tape first, and don't forget that the best shims are cardboard shims!
