4 piece bass body

lowendpurveyor · #1 03-25-2010, 05:51 PM

I just bought an MTD Kingston KZ6 bass and I noticed taking it home after closer inspection that the body appears to consists of 4 separate pieces of wood. Intuitively to me this seems like it would adversely affect the tone. What do you guys think? How much does that fact that it's 4 pieces of wood affect the tone as opposed to being one piece of wood? Thanks.

Diogenes · #2 03-25-2010, 06:14 PM

I really wouldn't worry about it. The type of magnet used in the pickups would probably merit more concern.

HogieWan · #3 03-25-2010, 07:46 PM

4? you need way more than that

bodies are hardly ever 1 piece. Most are 2 or 3, but depending on the species you can only get good board so wide

mikeyswood · #4 03-25-2010, 07:52 PM

A 4 piece body will kill the mid-hump©.

jworrellbass · #5 03-25-2010, 08:30 PM

Oh no not a 4 piece body, it sounds like a tone killer. bah, bah, bah.

Don't worry, it's ok.

WarriorJoe7 · #6 03-25-2010, 08:31 PM

alembics are like 7 pieces of wood and that;s not even the fancy ones. Alembics suck pretty bad too, especially those hippie sandwich ones

Musiclogic · #7 03-25-2010, 10:11 PM

one of these days someone will go up to the basses section and destroy a lot of pretentious tone wood discussions when they tell all the fleabs that there really isn't such thing as a tone wood for solidbodies, and that this is a reference to acoustic tops almost exclusively. Or maybe we'll keep it our little secret...LMAO

dremy2006 · #8 03-26-2010, 05:53 AM

my 1st SC was 6 pieces of would.. and sounds good to my ears.. and those who heard it... matter of fact.. my last thread.. Walnut bass build... the core was 4 pcs of walnut plus the top...so 4+2=............6.... and sounds good to me...!!.. I know this is about the body.. but how about the necks.. 3,4,5,6,7..pcs of wood.....

""one of these days someone will go up to the basses section and destroy a lot of pretentious tone wood discussions when they tell all the fleabs that there really isn't such thing as a tone wood for solidbodies, and that this is a reference to acoustic tops almost exclusively."""

Gone · #9 03-26-2010, 06:18 AM

Why you asking us if it will kill the tone?
You actually have the bass n your hands, does the tone sound dead to you?

lowendpurveyor · #10 03-26-2010, 06:38 AM

Thanks for all your "nice" replies. It was a simple innocent question. Nothing pretentious about it.

It's just a common sense question. You would think a single piece has more continuity and stability in vibration rather than multiple pieces glued together. Whether you can hear it or not is another question.

Yes I do have the bass in my hands but I do not have the same bass made as a single piece in my hands for comparison.