Though, I do ask Warmoth to give me straight-up fret ends. Because I want the "hotdog" ends - half a hemisphere - and I do it myself, and you can't get there from a 35 degree bevel. It's hard for Warmoth, because the majority of people are not going to attend to fret ends, so the majority of complaints might be that the frets are too sharp.
The fundamental issue is that Fender's bridge is too wide for Fender's neck width, once you add JUMBO + properly-dressed fret ends. Warmoth does offer an extra-wide neck with an overhang at the sides of the pocket, but the nut's extra-wide too. Same with USA Custom's, which is an extra-wide butt, for which you need an extra-wide pocket. But the damn nut's too wide too, which wasn't the problem.
When Fender did their specs, nobody bent strings, and fret were .032" high before dressing. It's weird to realize that almost NO Americans had ever heard a bent string until 1965, when some few heard BB King's "Live at the Regal" and ever fewer heard Eric Clapton on the John Mayall "Beano" album. Eric was playing note-for-note steals of some Freddie King tunes - and Freddie had learned bending from BB King. And Fender's neck specs were standardized - FOURTEEN YEARS before that.
If you asked an electrical engineer what would be a good thing to hook together multi-thousand dollar electrical music devices - it'd be a long list before you got to 1/4" mono phone jacks. They're not nearly good enough to plug in your toaster or air-conditioner.
A few pickup manufacturers have tried putting three or four adjustment screws on humbuckers, two to a side - so you could adjust their angle without having to take them out and pile up little bits of foam underneath. They went broke... too much trouble to drill an extra hole in pickup rings.
For those kids who only know the fat sit-down BB:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Vpo7TYFQtc
Besides bending, he was only the 2nd guitar player* who's band's job was to play to him - guitarists used to be dirtbags, just stand next to the drummer and don't attract attention. Jimi and Duane and Jerry learned a hell of a lot there.
*(T-Bone Walker)
