Fender now offers genuine replacement necks & bodies. The current selections are limited to Stratocaster/ Telecaster/ P-bass/ J-bass range. There isn't a wide variety namely because it's at its fledgling stages. You are basically looking at American & Mexican replacement necks & bodies with an average of USD200 difference. The American versions are not priced as scraps, mind you, a Strat neck, for instance, goes for a whopping USD499.99, while its Mexican counterpart is only USD199.99.
So this gives you the perfect reason to assemble part-build Fender instruments to rival the manufacturer's finished article, you might think? If you take time to crunch the cost of assembling an all-American Strat, you'd realize that the American Special range is hard to beat at about SGD1,300. Please don't dream of inflating prices of your Franken-Strats & telling people out there they are 'custom' build by you. Even a genuine finished article retains about 70% of its retail price in the after market so how much do you think your Franken-strat would fetch? It's still a demand-supply situation when it comes to such pricings & the objective of offering these geunine replacement units is largely to pacify owners in the belief that their personal, war-torn, battle-scarred Fenders can be resurrected should the neck/ body fall apart in its entirety along the way. But heck, who would truly want to refurbish such personal relics? :-)
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