It is an upgrade for my MIM blackout tele. I bought it a while ago for 199 bucks as a closeout fender friday from MF. The tele is nice, and has a decent neck, but it is fairly fat, and even though it is supposed to have medium jumbo fender sized frets, they are clearly shorter and rounder than my other MIM or MIA fenders.They feel like the old MIM 'vintage' style frets from the 90's models to me. It is a decent guitar, but it just didn't feel comfortable. It sounds great, and the pickups seem to be decent alnico models from the MIM vintage series, and the body is pretty light, so I liked everything but the neck/frets. So, I watched the Warmoth site for along time for a maple tele neck that would fit my needs, and finally, this thing turned up.
I have a set of tuners for it already and I have some roller style string trees. Should be a pretty simple bolt on with a little drilling for the tuner screws and such. It even comes with the nut pre-slotted by CNC.
The birdseye bling is a bonus, as this neck was pretty much the same price as the plain maple they had in stock.