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6 strings on a warmoth deluxe 5 neck?

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Stiba

Mar 12, 2009
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Oslo, Norway
#1
I have been looking for something special for sometime now, but I have not been able to fint what I want.
There are two things I want in my bass:

First a super slim neck 6 string bass. I got a ibanez sr1006 the problem with it's neck is that above the 12've frett the neck is to thick to comfortably reach the e string.(tuned E,A,D,G,C,F)

Second, since I am useing e,a,d,g,c,f tuning I dont need a 34 inch scale length. So I am thinking something in the lines of a 32"...

Here is where warmoth comes inn, the deluxe 5 necks.
These necks are 34" 22 frets, after checking stewmac fret calculator, that should be good for 24 frets on a 32" inch scale.
But I am a little unsure about certain things, maybe someone on this forum is moore knowlegeble than me on this matter.

Does anyone know if warmoth will slot a deluxe 5 neck with a 32" scale, will this be very expensive?

Will the 5 string neck suppourt 6 strings tuned e,a,d,g,c,f?

Thanks for your help :)
 
#2
Have you thought about what string spacing it has to be? Six string sound gears already have one of the tightest string spacings around (16.5mm) you think you will be able to squeeze something tighter than that? What about the bridge?

Also, correct me if im wrong, wouldn't that mean you need to route the neck pocket deeper into the body? and doing so making it harder to reach the higher frets due to the lower cutaway getting in the way? (i am assuming you will use a warmoth body) or are you planning moving the bridge closer to the neck?
 
#3
If I use a body blank with just the neck pocket routed I could shape the body myself.

For the bridge I am thinking an acoustic bass bridge, some of these do not have predefined string width.

I want a string spacing similar to a guitar only a little wider ;)
 
#6
The main details are escaping me, but didn't Zon have some early 6ers that had really tight string spacing? I believe they were WAY tighter than any soundgear.

Actually Les Claypool has a fretless 6 CT, that's very tight spacing as well (almost as tight as it is at the nut).

LESfretted6.jpg
 
#9
Stiba said:
I have been looking for something special for sometime now, but I have not been able to fint what I want.
There are two things I want in my bass:

First a super slim neck 6 string bass. I got a ibanez sr1006 the problem with it's neck is that above the 12've frett the neck is to thick to comfortably reach the e string.(tuned E,A,D,G,C,F)

Second, since I am useing e,a,d,g,c,f tuning I dont need a 34 inch scale length. So I am thinking something in the lines of a 32"...

Here is where warmoth comes inn, the deluxe 5 necks.
These necks are 34" 22 frets, after checking stewmac fret calculator, that should be good for 24 frets on a 32" inch scale.
But I am a little unsure about certain things, maybe someone on this forum is moore knowlegeble than me on this matter.

Does anyone know if warmoth will slot a deluxe 5 neck with a 32" scale, will this be very expensive?

Will the 5 string neck suppourt 6 strings tuned e,a,d,g,c,f?

Thanks for your help :)
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Sorry, no 32" scale on the Deluxe 5 necks.

In addition to string spacing, also look at tuner location on the headstock. This could be challenging, particularly if you want to maintain any sort of straight string pull.
 

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