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11-13-2005, 09:21 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Bowling Green, Ohio | | | Is Neck Bending Bas For The Neck??
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Hello fellow TBers
I've seen Billy Sheehan do it, and now I use it to bend harmonics that are not distorted. Is neck bending bad for the neck, will it break/damage the neck or truss rod?  |
11-13-2005, 09:44 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Long Island, NY | | | If you do it too hard/often it can be very bad. I do it too, and as long as you keep it in moderation it's OK.
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11-13-2005, 02:25 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Ireland | | | his bass has a two bolt neck to make neck bending easy and ok on the neck. |
11-14-2005, 05:18 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Bowling Green, Ohio | | | mmhmm...
So anybody else now about neck bending and how bad for the neck it is? |
11-14-2005, 05:57 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Larne, Northern Ireland | | well on his dvd he says himself his bass is no different than any other and that you can do it with any bass, so what the man says goes IMO
ps billy rocks 
although i wouldnt do it all the time |
11-14-2005, 09:03 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Glasgow, Scotland | | | done in moderation it shouldn't do any harm. as long as you're not bending it past what it can take. i would imagine you would probably know if you bent it too far....
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11-14-2005, 09:59 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Bowling Green, Ohio | | | Alrighty, thanks alot people =D! |
11-14-2005, 10:01 AM
| | | | That sure would be embarrassing snapping the bass in half during a show, though.
Hehe.
Billy rules. |
11-14-2005, 10:07 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Philadelphia | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by NoisemakerD-Lux That sure would be embarrassing snapping the bass in half during a show, though.
Hehe.
Billy rules. | Though i bet no one would dare say anything to you for fear of being snapped in half themselves  
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11-14-2005, 10:35 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Gladstone, QLD, Australia | | | I tried neck bending on my wishbass and the thing would just NOT MOVE! seriously..
as a rule, I don't neck bend...strings bend a lot easier than necks and are a whole lot cheaper...don't bend your neck...bend your strings... |
11-14-2005, 10:45 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: University of Washington | | | But string bends only go up in pitch. Sometimes it's nice to end a song by doubling the sound of light tremolo use by the guitarist. |
11-14-2005, 10:51 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: Bay Area, California, USA | | | You can always start the note bent up... if you have lighter strings you can bend especially far. I know it's not the same thing as the neck bend, but it's better than nothing. |
11-15-2005, 06:05 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Bowling Green, Ohio | | | Pilbara bass, your neck doesnt bend :s you just push it back and forth....
those tremolos look interesting. |
11-15-2005, 11:59 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Goldsboro / Raleigh NC | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by PilbaraBass I tried neck bending on my wishbass and the thing would just NOT MOVE! seriously..
as a rule, I don't neck bend...strings bend a lot easier than necks and are a whole lot cheaper...don't bend your neck...bend your strings... | Yeah you don't want to damage the truss rod...
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