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Fender Roasted Maple Jazz neck. Normally $400, but $291 on Amazon right now.

Grab it quick if you want it! They were listed as "2 available" right before I bought mine.

Amazon.com: Fender Jazz Bass Neck, Roasted Maple, Modern C, 20 Medium Jumbo Frets : Musical Instruments
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These necks are really great. I've used them on 2 builds, one Jazz neck and one Precision neck, and they have been nothing short of fantastic. The fretwork has been good-to-great (one needed zero additional work, the other needed just a little bit of extra attention to the fret ends) and the necks themselves have been great with zero warpage, twisting, humps, etc. Truss rods have had plenty of room/adjusting action and worked smoothly. The finish has been beautiful on both with zero weird drips/runs/smudges. They feel great, sound great, and play great.

I just bought my third. I've pretty much decided that whenever I see these necks go below $300, I'm going to get one if I don't already have a build in process. I just finished the last build 2 weeks ago, so today begins the process of planning/spec'ing out my next build.

Here are the last 2 builds. P neck on the left, J neck on the right:
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I just checked there, and this is what I see. Congrats on getting the lower price! Not sure why the last one was back at $400.

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Dang! Sorry man. :(

So here's what I do: I put one of each (the Jazz and Precision necks) in my amazon cart and leave in the "save for later" hopper. I check them daily, along with a bunch of other "wants but not needs" that I have in there. When it drops to a price I like, I buy. If it never drops... fine. I never buy, lol!

camelcamelcamel.com is also a useful (not 100% accurate) tool for gauging whether something is at a good/low price or not. I will say, it's terribly inaccurate when it comes to these Fender necks, as I watch the prices bounce around quite a lot, but that's not always reflected on CCC.

Good luck on snagging one at the next dip!