Custom Neck... What do you think?

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For the ultimate bass I've decided to go the Warmoth USACG route. I'm going to go with a walnut laminate/mahogany P body.

I've decided to go with USACG for the neck as their necks dont have the two steel stabilizer bars like the warmoth necks do. I think those warmoth neck would be heavy and prone to neck dive. I'm trying to keep this bass on the lighter side as much as possible while still retaining what I want in terms of woods etc.

For the neck, which I will order first (and very soon) I've decided it will have the following:

-maple neck

-ebony board (maybe dark indian rosewood)

-no radius

-no face dots

-Vintage fretwire

-Possibly with a walnut laminate on the headstock to match the walnut body (if USACG will do that).

Are there any possible issues with those choices?

 

[codyAllen191]

sounds like a plan....man, the only thing Id recomend is ordering the body first.....bodies take up to twice(roughly) as long as a neck to make and send off, specially since its gonna have a lam. top on it.

what are the rest of the specs?.....now Im curious, lol.

 

[BuffaloBass]

Sounds cool. Arent ebony and rosewood miles apart in timbre?

 

[tremblap]

A different input here.

I don't know how much you want to put, but the main factor in a neck IMO is the luthier, ie no only the wood but which piece of which tree, and aged for how many years in which conditions.

My first pro bass was a rip-off, but Pierre Laporte replaced the neck with stonehard maple quarter-sawn dried for 20-years. It was a revelation, a sound and playability revolution.

If you can afford it, invest in your neck. It is the main decisive factor of your instrument's musicality.

my 2 cents

pa