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08-22-2009, 10:37 AM
| | | | How is the neck attached to the body?
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I found that the neck on my bass is attached by 4 screws. The guitar is a korean fender jazz bass rip off. I always thought that guitar necks were bolted on. But screws? Is it a sign of crap manufacturing or all fenderish basses are the same way.
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08-22-2009, 11:29 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Western Pennsylvania | | | Bolt on = screwed in. |
08-22-2009, 11:30 AM
| | | | Oh.
Nice.
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08-22-2009, 11:39 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Sac Area | | | Some folks do add threaded inserts to the body and then use bolts. I'm not sure if any high-end basses already do this.
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08-22-2009, 04:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Foamy  Some folks do add threaded inserts to the body and then use bolts. I'm not sure if any high-end basses already do this. | Many high-end basses use screws. But they are referred to as "bolt-ons" anyway. The ones that uses inserts and real bolts are the exceptions, not the rule.
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08-22-2009, 04:29 PM
| | | | yes, threaded inserts, that what I remember. They seem to be a better way or maybe I am being a paranoid perfectionist. I don't trust screws...
But I gues they are ok if most guitars have their neck screwed (literally) |
08-22-2009, 04:30 PM
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Originally Posted by herbalserpent yes, threaded inserts, that what I remember. They seem to be a better way or maybe I am being a paranoid perfectionist. I don't trust screws...
But I gues they are ok if most guitars have their neck screwed (literally) | Tens of thousands of guitars and basses have their necks screwed on an nobody seems to mind.
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08-22-2009, 04:36 PM
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08-22-2009, 06:39 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Fort Collins, Colorado | | | Nothing wrong with screws. Using them probably saves you $50 to $100 on the cost of the instrument by the time you consider labor to install inserts and bolts.
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08-22-2009, 06:49 PM
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Originally Posted by Ric5 | Nice basses!
The screws are hidden and go sideways to hold the body wings on!!!!  
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08-22-2009, 07:24 PM
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Originally Posted by Pilgrim Nothing wrong with screws. Using them probably saves you $50 to $100 on the cost of the instrument by the time you consider labor to install inserts and bolts. | if you look at the actual direction of the stresses on the neck screws there is not much danger of failure........
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08-22-2009, 07:32 PM
| | | | Bredchren!
thanks for your comments.
They are indeed wise and reassuring.
This was the right place to aks/ask.
I traded this bass for a MIM jazz bass which did not turn me on at all.
(I have lately come to realization that good things often come in unassuming packages)
This Dillion bass guitar sounds million times better, every string has very pronounced full bodied sound on every fret...plus the maple bound neck with black square inlays..
I just want to make sure I didn't compromise on anything else.
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08-22-2009, 07:51 PM
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Bass Technician, Club Bass - Toronto | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: Toronto Canada | | | Don't get bent out of shape by the comparison between bolt-ons and neck-through instruments. It's like comparing radios to MP3 players. Different tehcnologoies to deliver music. Equally valid, but different. One is not better than the other.
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08-22-2009, 08:03 PM
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Originally Posted by Turnaround Don't get bent out of shape by the comparison between bolt-ons and neck-through instruments. It's like comparing radios to MP3 players. Different tehcnologoies to deliver music. Equally valid, but different. One is not better than the other. | I beg to differ MP3 players are better.
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08-22-2009, 08:04 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: I'm a dyno man, N.of Detoilet | | | One very nice feature of a "bolt-on" is that if something happens to the neck, you can likely fix it yerself at relatively low cost. With "neck-through" the repair cost usually condemns the whole instrument, less the hardware.
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