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08-28-2007, 10:54 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: los angeles | | | Carved Neck
Hello all!
What is the benefit of having a carved neck on a ply bass? Why am I asking? I'm going to check out a bass and while corresponding with the owner and asking him what sort of bass it was (craved, ply or hybrid etc.) he told me that it was a ply bass with a craved neck.
BTW, feel free to bump this thread to another part of the forum if it doesn't belong here as I wasn't sure if this or the "Set Up And Repair" was the right place to post.
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08-28-2007, 11:20 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: NYC | | | He's either a moron or is jerking you around. ALL bass necks are carved, whether by hand or by CNC machine. Carved/hybrid/ply all refer to the BODY of the bass.
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08-28-2007, 11:31 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: los angeles | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Ed Fuqua  He's either a moron or is jerking you around. ALL bass necks are carved, whether by hand or by CNC machine. Carved/hybrid/ply all refer to the BODY of the bass. | LOL! Thanks Ed. |
08-28-2007, 02:09 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Florida | | My bass is special because my bridge is carved too... 
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08-28-2007, 04:09 PM
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Originally Posted by charmicarmicat ....while corresponding with the owner and asking him what sort of bass it was (craved, ply or hybrid etc.) he told me that it was a ply bass with a craved neck. | I think there is some subliminal sales tactics going on here. The bass and neck is craved. If the seller says craved seven times you will buy the bass without even knowing why.
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08-29-2007, 12:01 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: los angeles | | | Thank you all for replying. Thing is that I am in the market for a bass and as stated on this forum so many times, one should try every bass possible. And that's exactly what I am doing. I tried real nice 7K basses as well as cheaper ply. When I do decide to buy a bass, it will go first to a luthier for an inspection etc. Just as one would bring a used car to their favorite mechanic. |
08-29-2007, 01:11 AM
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Luthier: Bresque Basses, rep: Paulin EUB | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Sydney, Australia | | | When you try a ply bass, make sure to look the sales rep dead in the eye and ask whether its real, solid ply all the way through. That'll throw 'em. And if it doesn't, ask whether you can get them to put on a ply bridge, too ... |
08-29-2007, 10:53 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: los angeles | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Matthew Tucker When you try a ply bass, make sure to look the sales rep dead in the eye and ask whether its real, solid ply all the way through. That'll throw 'em. And if it doesn't, ask whether you can get them to put on a ply bridge, too ... | Jeez! It's comedy hour at Talkbass.com  |
08-30-2007, 03:57 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: West Haven, CT | | Quote:
Originally Posted by charmicarmicat Hello all!
I'm going to check out a bass and while corresponding with the owner and asking him what sort of bass it was (craved, ply or hybrid etc.) he told me that it was a ply bass with a craved neck. |
I was wondering if a craved neck has 666 carved into its headstock or maybe a medusa/Freddy Kruger head. lol |
08-30-2007, 11:07 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Boulder, Colorado | | | Do you all mean "craved" or "carved." Is this another term I'm not aware of or have all of you just spelled it wrong?? |
08-30-2007, 03:05 PM
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Luthier: Bresque Basses, rep: Paulin EUB | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Sydney, Australia | | | "craved" is one of those strange words like "gullible" that you won't find in any dictionary. Don't believe me? Have a look. |
08-30-2007, 04:39 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Boulder, Colorado | | | ha...
haha, just kidding. Had to ask... |
08-30-2007, 05:23 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Maui | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Matthew Tucker "craved" is one of those strange words like "gullible" that you won't find in any dictionary. Don't believe me? Have a look. | Or "furpling". |
08-30-2007, 05:44 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Seattle, WA | | | My neck is carved, but has a perlon core. It makes it sound more "woody" and "organic".
It makes my bass sound like my bass only louder.
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08-30-2007, 06:22 PM
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Originally Posted by TroyK It makes my bass sound like my bass only louder. | I hope "your bass" sounds good then!
I have a shirt that contains perlon, and it makes me look just like me, only louder!
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