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03-24-2012, 05:12 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Avondale Estates, GA, USA | | | Just priced a fretted neck for my SB5000. Tung oil finish, ebony board, low-wide frets, SB headstock. If the taxman has good news (or at least not terrible news) I think I'm gonna go for it. It'll be cool to have the option of going fretted or fretless with the same bass.
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03-24-2012, 05:25 PM
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Originally Posted by Dave Siff  Just priced a fretted neck for my SB5000. Tung oil finish, ebony board, low-wide frets, SB headstock. If the taxman has good news (or at least not terrible news) I think I'm gonna go for it. It'll be cool to have the option of going fretted or fretless with the same bass. | How difficult is this? I was thinking the opposite direction..let me know. |
03-24-2012, 05:29 PM
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Originally Posted by mcglyph How difficult is this? I was thinking the opposite direction..let me know. | Shouldn't be too difficult to swap necks.
And, if I go that route and end up really digging it as a fretted bass, the fretless neck might be for sale.. 
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03-24-2012, 09:57 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Colorado Springs, CO | | | I went with classic white, be maple board and hs, tort guard, chrome hardware. Quoted 10 weeks.
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03-24-2012, 10:29 PM
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Originally Posted by JoeVictim I went with classic white, be maple board and hs, tort guard, chrome hardware. Quoted 10 weeks. | That should be awesome.
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03-24-2012, 11:39 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Los Angeles, CA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Dave Siff Just priced a fretted neck for my SB5000. Tung oil finish, ebony board, low-wide frets, SB headstock. If the taxman has good news (or at least not terrible news) I think I'm gonna go for it. It'll be cool to have the option of going fretted or fretless with the same bass. | Quote:
Originally Posted by mcglyph How difficult is this? I was thinking the opposite direction..let me know. | Quote:
Originally Posted by Dave Siff Shouldn't be too difficult to swap necks.
And, if I go that route and end up really digging it as a fretted bass, the fretless neck might be for sale.. | If you order a neck, make sure that you order it pre-drilled! I did mine that way and it was ridiculously easy to swap. Took less than 5 minutes.
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03-25-2012, 12:09 AM
| | | | So is it something can endlessly swap out, like today I wanna go fretless..tomorrow I'll be back with the frets? Surely not quite so simple...??? There's nothing wrong with switchin back around all the time...? |
03-25-2012, 04:59 AM
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Originally Posted by Grateful If you order a neck, make sure that you order it pre-drilled! | Haha, yes! Looking at that undrilled headstock almost made me pass out!
Question for you: if you order a neck by itself, does it come with tuning machines or is that an add-on?
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03-25-2012, 05:05 AM
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Originally Posted by mcglyph So is it something can endlessly swap out, like today I wanna go fretless..tomorrow I'll be back with the frets? Surely not quite so simple...??? There's nothing wrong with switchin back around all the time...? | It's just a matter of taking one neck off and putting the other one on. You could do that as often as you like, if you don't mind wear on the neck bolts (which can be replaced if necessary), un-stringing, re-stringing and re-setting the bass up, and any "cosmic" implications (taking the neck off a bass bugs me for some reason.) If I get a fretted neck, I will probably make the swap and leave it. As much as I love my fretless, it doesn't leave the house. The guys in my band love the sound but hate my intonation, and fretless really doesn't work for much of what we play.
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03-25-2012, 05:30 AM
|  | Musical Anarchist | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Sutton, MA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Dave Siff Haha, yes! Looking at that undrilled headstock almost made me pass out!
Question for you: if you order a neck by itself, does it come with tuning machines or is that an add-on? | I believe you have to order all the hardware separately. I'm sure they'll install it if you ask . . . nicely. |
03-25-2012, 08:27 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Dayton, Ohio | | | If one were interested in repeatedly swapping necks, I would suggest installing threaded inserts. The bolts themselves should be fine for thousands of swaps before they would need replacing, but the wood where those bolts are constantly inserted and removed will slowly turn to mush. This also would take many (not as many as with the bolts) repeated installations to occur, but the inserts aren't expensive, and they are easy to install.
If you're only planning on swapping them once and selling the fretless neck, I wouldn't worry about it.
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03-25-2012, 09:03 AM
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Originally Posted by Dave Siff Haha, yes! Looking at that undrilled headstock almost made me pass out!
Question for you: if you order a neck by itself, does it come with tuning machines or is that an add-on? | Mercifully, the The headstock comes pre-drilled regardless. I was referring to the holes where the neck attaches to the body. Quote:
Originally Posted by Freddels I believe you have to order all the hardware separately. I'm sure they'll install it if you ask . . . nicely. | As usual, Freddels is correct on all counts. Tuners not included.
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03-25-2012, 09:19 AM
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Originally Posted by theaterbass29 | Clear pickguard? I wonder why Carvin doesn't offer those. I hink there's a place called Terapin Guitars that will make them for you,
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03-25-2012, 09:28 AM
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Originally Posted by Grateful Mercifully, the The headstock comes pre-drilled regardless. I was referring to the holes where the neck attaches to the body. | 
Hahaha, umm, yeah, that's what I meant!
Not sure what made me think they'd send someone a neck with that boat-paddle heastock and say, "Good luck!"
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03-25-2012, 09:32 AM
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Originally Posted by Dave Siff
Hahaha, umm, yeah, that's what I meant!
Not sure what made me think they'd send someone a neck with that boat-paddle heastock and say, "Good luck!" | They might. People use these necks on other basses, and the screwhole placement is dictated by the body, not the neck...
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03-25-2012, 09:49 AM
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Originally Posted by Eggman That should be awesome. | I am hoping so. I also asked for light wood and went for the chambered body. This should be my last bass.
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03-25-2012, 10:12 AM
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Originally Posted by Dave Siff
Hahaha, umm, yeah, that's what I meant!
Not sure what made me think they'd send someone a neck with that boat-paddle heastock and say, "Good luck!" | That is actually an option. |
03-25-2012, 11:59 AM
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Originally Posted by JoeVictim I am hoping so. I also asked for light wood and went for the chambered body. This should be my last bass. | I have heard that before 
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03-26-2012, 09:13 AM
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Originally Posted by basswave | Yeah, but this time it's real 
Seriously though, I've been playing the same MIM jazz for the last 16 or so years. It's time to upgrade. And since I don't get money to spend on gear the way a lot of people here do, this will probably be the best bass I own and therefore my last bass. 
This is a real reason for me to celebrate.
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03-26-2012, 09:24 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Waxahachie, Tx | | | Anyone have a fretted SB4000 they want to sell? Getting the itch. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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