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Cheap Singlecuts?

J. Crawford

J. Crawford

Feb 15, 2008
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#1
I was wondering, how come you never see a fair priced singlecut? I see Foderas, Warwicks, but never anything cheap. Why doesnt a company like Ibanez or someone make an affordable singlecut for the people, like me, who cant afford one of the previous stated. Is there a company that I havent yet stumbled upon? If so, could someone put me in the rigt direction?
 
#8
Because they can be more work to make... but I am surprised that the most affordable one out there is still the Benavente AFAIK. It really shouldn't be much harder to do than a neck through and there have been affordable neck throughs for years now.

Maybe it's a conspiracy.
:smug:

BTW the Les Paul body style really isn't in the same vein.
 
#9
Jordasch said:
I was wondering, how come you never see a fair priced singlecut? I see Foderas, Warwicks, but never anything cheap. Why doesnt a company like Ibanez or someone make an affordable singlecut for the people, like me, who cant afford one of the previous stated. Is there a company that I havent yet stumbled upon? If so, could someone put me in the rigt direction?
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Did you mean Warriors?
 
#10
Brad Johnson said:
Because they can be more work to make... but I am surprised that the most affordable one out there is still the Benavente AFAIK. It really shouldn't be much harder to do than a neck through and there have been affordable neck throughs for years now.

Maybe it's a conspiracy.
:smug:

BTW the Les Paul body style really isn't in the same vein.
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The real cost lies in finding woods of the proper quality in pieces large enough to make a single-cut body.
 
#13
Lorenzini said:
Benavente has an affordable singlecut out. It's the Standard, I believe, and I've heard they are really great basses.
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+1.

Elrick, Fodera and most of the hot boutique builders command $4000+++ for thier singlecuts.

$1500-2000 is very expense for a bass IMO but the Benavente seems to be very well recieved compared to the heavy hitters and is "cheap" in comparison.
 
#17
Mark Wilson said:
Good thing you can close your eyes and listen.
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good point but if they don't look very ergonomic either and what necessarily would mean it sounds good? You can get a great sounding bass that isn't singlecut also. That said I hate how the custom, or boutique market is basically dominated by Singlecuts and jazz copies, for 4 string atleast.

Anyways thats besides the point for under 1000$ do you really think your going to get that premium sound too? i mean the singlecuts will be less common, less production so the cost cutting has to go somewhere. Unless of course they are going to sell a lot.

IMO I rather have a great sounding bass that has a more mainstream look then a bad sounding singlecut.
 
#19
Steveaux said:
The object of the exercise is to create a larger body-mass and longer contact-patch between neck and body.

Gluing random chunks of wood together toward this aim just doesn't work nearly as well as the real article.

Face it, kids ... some things just have to be done properly.
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Funny, I thought the object was to look like a singlecut.

:D

Where did you get the idea that you had to glue random chunks of wood together? Why do you think that would be worse than having a center block with two wings, the most common way of building neck throughs?
:hmm:
 
#20
peaveyuser said:
good point but if they don't look very ergonomic either and what necessarily would mean it sounds good? You can get a great sounding bass that isn't singlecut also. That said I hate how the custom, or boutique market is basically dominated by Singlecuts and jazz copies, for 4 string atleast.

Anyways thats besides the point for under 1000$ do you really think your going to get that premium sound too? i mean the singlecuts will be less common, less production so the cost cutting has to go somewhere. Unless of course they are going to sell a lot.

IMO I rather have a great sounding bass that has a more mainstream look then a bad sounding singlecut.
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I agree with you mostly.
But...the custom market isn't dominated by Single cuts and jazz copies. Those are popular. If it's Custom, then they choose it. Ya know?

Point 2: It's the player. Not the gear ;)
 

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