Westone Paduak II

Prestige and Rainbow owners will disagree, metallic blue and yellow Raider owners will drop their eye-liner in shock, but the Paduak is, to me, the pinnacle of the Matsumoku Westone range. 

The neck seems to suit and impress high end Strat and LP players equally. The PEQ controls can convincingly emulate weedy singles, fat P-90s and full humbuckers at some point through the rotation. Those brass knobs with their centre indent just feel better then plastic. So it looks like a 1970's housing estate internal door to some, agreed, but it can grow on you and has its own identity amongst the Fenders and Gibsons. It's all about the neck with this one - the craftsmanship of construction and anti-fashion look aside, even the versatility of the tonal spectrum aside, this neck is addictive. Like all good necks, it brings out the best you have.