Bolt on body?

dDaddybass · #1 07-13-2011, 10:59 AM

Has anyone here ever heard of, or actually tried this:
Instead of the neck bolting to the body, a body bolting to the neck. Screws through the front of the body under the pickguard, bridge ect.?

grisezd · #2 07-13-2011, 11:07 AM

I'd considered bolting the wings onto the body of my current build, just in case I don't like the way the body turns out. I did consider that I'd have wires running through the join that I'd have to re-do for each removal. Of course, you could keep all the wiring separate from the bolt-on body.

dDaddybass · #3 07-13-2011, 11:17 AM

Hey Jason, what are your thoughts about the efficiency?

R. Laevinus · #4 07-13-2011, 01:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by grisezd

I'd considered bolting the wings onto the body of my current build, just in case I don't like the way the body turns out. I did consider that I'd have wires running through the join that I'd have to re-do for each removal. Of course, you could keep all the wiring separate from the bolt-on body.

...or....

You could just use a TRS connecter.

OP, what advantages are you thinking about getting here? I'm not sure what the point of such a creature would be.

knucklehead G · #5 07-13-2011, 01:14 PM

One of the Yamaha Attitude basses did something like this, it had two bolts through the back in the standard space and two through the front. Billy said it solved some magical issue that all of the other basses in the entire world suffer from, but you need to remove a pickup to take off the neck, so I didn't see it being an advantage.

dDaddybass · #6 07-13-2011, 01:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by R. Laevinus

...or....

You could just use a TRS connecter.

OP, what advantages are you thinking about getting here? I'm not sure what the point of such a creature would be.

I was just thinking of a way to do a authentic looking Rickenbacker 4003 style build using a bolt on neck.

Bass-Adrenaline · #7 07-13-2011, 03:46 PM

You could use a regular bolt on style and recess the bolts in the back a bit. On top of the recessed bolts you could use some sort of cover held on with magnets to conceal the bolts.

MusicBear · #8 07-13-2011, 08:21 PM

I seem to remember seeing something like this back in the late 1970's or early 1980's - a neck-thru instrument (guitar or bass) around which you could change the body to suit your gig. A "conservative" body if you were playing bluegrass or in church, a "hard" body if you were at a metal gig, and a funky/glam body if you were playing disco. Never really caught on though.