Wholesale Direct Sales Electric Guitar Neck 22 Fret Maple Accessories for TL Guitar Production
Radius: 9.5" Standard
Profile: Modern C
Frets: 22 Nickel-Silver
Scale: 25.5" (648mm)
Custom radius configurations, dual-action truss rod architecture, and grade-A tonewood selection calibrated for South American climate resilience.
From Montevideo's boutique workshops to touring bands traversing the Río de la Plata basin, our guitar necks are designed to thrive under local mechanical and environmental demands.
Uruguay maintains an illustrious lineage of master string instrument artisans centered in Barrio Sur, Cordón, and Pocitos. Our precision semi-finished and drop-in replacement necks allow boutique luthiers to eliminate weeks of raw wood processing while offering custom fingerboard radiuses (7.25" to compound 10"-14") to discriminating clients without requiring heavy capital machinery.
Montevideo and the southern coastal fringe of Uruguay face intense seasonal humidity, often spiking above 80% RH due to Atlantic and Rio de la Plata oceanic air masses. Standard raw necks warp and sprout frets easily. Our vacuum-kiln torrefied (roasted) maple necks caramelize sugars within the wood cells, drastically reducing hygroscopic sensitivity and guaranteeing neck straightness.
Local genres—spanning modern Rock Uruguayo to Candombe-Beat, Murga fusion, and Milonga electric arrangements—demand necks that withstand aggressive dynamic playing, rapid key modulations, and touring conditions across departmental circuits from Colonia to Salto. Dual-action carbon-steel truss rods maintain rapid responsiveness on the road.
With high import tariffs on fully assembled foreign electric guitars, Uruguayan musical instrument merchants frequently upgrade existing client fleets through part replacement. Our standard ST and TL heel dimensions (56mm heel pocket) fit vintage and contemporary import guitars seamlessly, delivering an immediate high-margin revenue model for music stores.
The musical instruments market in Uruguay, while compact compared to continental neighbors Brazil and Argentina, exhibits one of the highest per-capita expenditures on quality cultural gear in Latin America. Historically, local luthiers and repair businesses relied on sporadic imports from Europe and the United States, facing punitive individual freight rates and unpredictable delivery cycles. Today, a distinct industrial restructuring is under way across Uruguay’s specialized music gear sector.
Across Canelones, Montevideo, and Maldonado, independent guitar technicians and luthiers are transitioning from basic setup technicians into boutique brand creators. Building a guitar from raw billets requires prohibitive investments in five-axis CNC routers, pin routers, and dedicated climate-controlled drying chambers. By sourcing pre-profiled, CNC-routed, and pre-radiused necks from dedicated original equipment manufacturers (OEM) in China, Uruguayan brands can redirect their high-value labor hours into artisanal voicing, fret crowning, nitrocellulose lacquer spraying, and custom hand-wound pickups.
The volatile thermal swings between Uruguay’s humid summers and damp winters have historically created extensive fret sprout and concave bow deformations in unroasted maple necks. Roasted maple (torrefied wood cooked in nitrogen-rich, low-oxygen vacuum kilns at temperatures exceeding 200°C) has shifted from an exotic custom-shop novelty to a baseline technical expectation among Uruguayan guitarists. The roasting crystallization process collapses the wood’s hemicellulose moisture channels, locking in dynamic resonance, dimensional stability, and an appealing vintage caramel hue without toxic chemical treatments.
Uruguayan guitar buyers increasingly seek guitars equipped with cupronickel or stainless steel frets featuring semi-hemispherical ball-end fret finishing. This prevents fret edges from biting into the player’s palm as ambient humidity drops during winter ocean fronts. Our OEM factory integrates automatic CNC fret-slotting saws with dedicated fret-pressing hydraulic rigs, guaranteeing level consistency down to 0.02 mm across every fretwire.
Importing finished electric guitars into Uruguay incurs significant administrative clearance costs, Mercosur trade tariffs, and luxury excise taxation. Conversely, importing modular sub-assemblies (guitar necks, carved bodies, and pickguards) falls under industrial component tariff classifications (NCM codes), saving local assemblers and distributors between 18% to 32% in landed customs burdens. This fiscal margin makes bulk neck sourcing directly from Chinese export manufacturing hubs the most viable operational strategy for domestic commercial scale.
Direct from our high-precision manufacturing workshops, we fuse legacy Japanese instrument craft standards dating back to 1956 with contemporary multi-axis CNC automation.
Rooted in engineering principles inherited from master classical and electric luthiery established in Nagoya since 1956, our factory enforces a multi-tier quality gateway. Every neck blank undergoes manual moisture verification, laser straightness inspection, and mechanical torsion stress testing prior to packaging.
We operate German and Japanese high-speed CNC routing centers calibrated to maintain neck profile tolerances within ±0.02 mm. Whether executing an ultra-thin modern D shape, classic 50s U-profile, or complex asymmetrical ergonomics, our machines ensure identical hand feel between first-sample evaluation and 5,000-unit bulk runs.
We maintain deep direct timber supply channels across North America and Europe, stocking Grade A to 5A Canadian hard rock maple, roasted flame maple, Indian rosewood, and engineered sustainable composites compliant with all international CITES standards and Uruguayan forestry import documentation.
Our international logistics team specializes in maritime FCL/LCL consolidated shipping directly into the Port of Montevideo, as well as rapid courier/air-freight solutions via Carrasco International Airport (MVD). We provide complete export documentation, certificates of origin, and custom crating designed for maritime vapor barriers.
Comprehensive technical and commercial answers regarding minimum order quantities, moisture controls, custom OEM specs, and Mercosur customs compliance.