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11-13-2012, 02:53 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Orange County, CA | | | What is the Best Neck?
So now that I have your attention... What is your personal favorite neck configuration and why? Fretted or Fretless?
Personally I love an All maple neck. It just looks so right and so purty. I honestly hate the look of a rosewood fingerboard/maple neck, but really love the look of an all rosewood neck/fingerboard. Sadly I have only played one neck like that (Was a Stringray 5 at GC and it sounded quite delicious)
P.S. Bonus points for those who make me GAS for a Rosewood/Maple neck through pictures of a sexy bass.
P.S.S. I don't want arguing about which configuration is better. Everyone has their personal choice as to which is better and lets leave it at that. (Because obviously Maple/Maple is the best  )
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11-13-2012, 02:58 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: Good ol' Atlantic Canada | | | Typically a fairly thin maple/rosewood with very small frets is my favorite, but that's by no means verbatim for every bass I like. Nut width doesn't so much matter to me, I'm playing exclusively 1 11/16" P-size necks now but I've played others like that I hate and Jazz-width necks I love and hate. Blocks and binding is always welcome too. I like really thick all maple guitar necks though (my Hanson is heaven to me.)
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11-13-2012, 03:11 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Louth UK | | | Giraffe...
My preference is a very thin Maple neck, with a rose wood slab, unlined fretless, and with a huge nut width. Ideally the maple and rose wood will be quite figured (just for aesthetic reasons), the finish will be satin (for speed), and a nice soft head angle. Two trus rods, with access at the headstock. |
11-13-2012, 03:12 PM
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11-13-2012, 03:14 PM
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Originally Posted by xxx666  Avoid rednecks | I literally laughed for a good minute there... Possibly the greatest answer to any question ever asked.
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11-13-2012, 03:20 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Neenah, WI | | | Composite graphite with a phenolic fingerboard, jumbo frets, tuners on the body...
Steinberger!
Okay, maybe not.
I love my Warmoth maple/rosewood jazz neck. Just slightly chunkier than a Fender jazz neck.
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11-13-2012, 04:04 PM
|  | Fretless Player | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Champaign, IL | | | My fretless has a Dymondwood fingerboard and maple neck. Love the tone of that fingerboard.
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11-13-2012, 04:07 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Varied places around the world | | | All maple recent Mexi Jazz profile with bright frets and a satin finish. Man is that nice.
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11-13-2012, 04:07 PM
|  | Thanks to Alembic, I'll have G.A.S. until I die. | | Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: New York City | | | I would love to play an all ebony unlined fretless neck. Preferably one that is on the thicker side, but ebony necks are rare enough all ready.
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11-13-2012, 04:19 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Micco Florida | | | One word. Wenge.
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11-13-2012, 04:30 PM
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11-13-2012, 04:32 PM
|  | Lurking TB from work | | Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Rochester, NY | | Quote:
Originally Posted by TinIndian One word. Wenge. | Hell yeah, All day.
Though a guilty pleasure of mine is an unlined fretless burl maple board with tiger maple neck with some crazy amount of lacquer. |
11-13-2012, 04:33 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Brookfield, CT | | | Any neck that doesn't require 75 truss rod adjustments per year.
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11-13-2012, 04:34 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Stockholm, Sweden | | | Fretted with no laquier. And FAT. Like the one on Warwicks or old Precisions. Dark woods. |
11-13-2012, 04:34 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Melbourne, Australia | | | I'm a huge Maple Neck, Rosewood Fretboard combination fanboy. I like them finished like on my AV62 P. I just can't get with maple unless it's finished ala the Stingray Classic. I just find that on my SR gets really funky, but I still rock it.
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11-13-2012, 04:36 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Wilkes-Barre, PA | | | I'm a biased Warwick lover, so Ovangkol with Wenge fretboard wins it for me (yes I've played the Wenge necks, and I still prefer Ovangkol).
That out of the way, I also love ebony boards with no markers of any sort and 1 1/2" nut. And tuners on both sides (ie 2+2, 3+1, 3+2, 4+1, etc). Also either oil or satin finish, no poly or gloss necks for me.
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11-13-2012, 04:40 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Bay Area CA | | | I played a bass with a laminate maple/pau ferro/purpleheart neck, and a pau ferro (or was it purpleheart?) board, that was way cool......can't recall what bass it was, though...Rudy's Music Stop, mid -90's, though....
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11-13-2012, 04:46 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Canada | | | I don't care that much for that as long as it matchs the color of the bass...
So I have 2 Maple/rosewood , 1 walnut/maple, 2 maple/ebony ( a fretless and a DB )
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11-13-2012, 04:55 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Michigan | | | Small frets on ebony over maple.
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11-13-2012, 05:03 PM
| | | | My friend had a Fender Precision Bass. It had a gloss black painted neck and headstock with a rosewood fretboard. I thought it was cool. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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