“The Stratocaster has been around for 70 years and it’s perfect. Now we come along and say, ‘You’re wrong!’ They don’t like it”: True Temperament wants to disrupt an industry built on heritage, but do its necks actually fix the guitar’s biggest flaw?

True Temperament crooked frets.

In the 71 years since the Fender Stratocaster came to market, the electric guitar recipe has hardly changed. Save for the introduction of fretboard radius and multi-scaling, the fingerboard has also remained largely conservative.

Undoubtedly the recipe has been a success, but it’s still fundamentally flawed: it's near-impossible for traditional fretboard to ever be completely and utterly in tune on every fret.