And the passive super j?
and are super j’s getting jazz sounds… or something different? Different is fine, i have a jazz already.
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and are super j’s getting jazz sounds… or something different? Different is fine, i have a jazz already.
Yes, the passive SJ as well. To me, both pickups in parallel was plenty of a jazz sound. I would recommend either a two pickup model or a 3X with toggles if your chasing jazz variations - with a 3X, you’ll gain stingray-adjacent tones, but you’ll lose the mid bump variation between neck and bridge in parallel vs series mode. Having the option to put the pickups themselves into series through the toggles mitigates that (it did for me, at least).
Hi all,
I've recently been eyeing used Canadian Dingwalls on the web and I've noticed one or two examples with what looks like a neck which is slightly delaminated. I've attached a picture of one example below for reference. Seems to be on older Canadian Dingwalls and not on the newer ones or NG models. I've read one more example of this happening to an owner.
Would this be something to worry about? Will it get worse over time?
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I've recently been eyeing used Canadian Dingwalls on the web and I've noticed one or two examples with what looks like a neck which is slightly delaminated. I've attached a picture of one example below for reference. Seems to be on older Canadian Dingwalls and not on the newer ones or NG models. I've read one more example of this happening to an owner.
Would this be something to worry about? Will it get worse over time?
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If you look at the vertical line beside the 9, you can see it looks like a split. You can see it does not extend below the tuner.Can you please explain what you mean and circle the area on the picture where the issue is?
I do not understand what you're saying and I'd like to learn, thanks
@Bassinga I would be hesitant to buy this without serious inspection in person. A good luthier could probably fix it, but if you're spending thousands on a bass, why buy a broken one? My concern would be it snapping and tipping the tuning peg out, causing serious damage to the rest of the bass or your head, unless it was fixed.
Thanks for letting me know! I was very skeptical about it to begin with. I didn't intend to buy this specific bass but it was just an observation I had made and wanted some clarification on.
That does look like a nasty crack, I would stay well clear because that does not look like glue come unstuck, I think that bass suffered a more sinister incident that cause the wood to split like that. Surely a qualified luthier might be able to bond it together but not something I would feel safe about in the long run
Gibson’s get their entire headstocks obliterated clean off because of crappy design and people get them repaired.
A split in the headstock can be glued and clamped much more easily.
True about Gibson but the value drop (example!) from $2500 to $500 or thereabout and no one wants to buy a 2nd hand Gibby that was previously beheaded and re-frankensteined!
Looks like a glue line between two pieces of maple. Not the perfection we expect, like the glue line to the left, but probably not fatal. Might not even be a crack, I’d have to see both sides to be sure.
There is, however, a ding, a small dent, near the suspicious line.
If this was a remote deal, I’d check on the return options.
There is, however, a ding, a small dent, near the suspicious line.
If this was a remote deal, I’d check on the return options.
To anyone interested in seeing the bass. The picture is from Reverb. See the link below.
Dingwall ABZ 5 | Reverb
Dingwall ABZ 5 | Reverb
thank you!Here's a little more info that might help. I just did a crazy upgrade on my Ibanez SRF705 fretless earlier this year and put in a Zen Blade bridge and BigRig neck with parallel/single/series switching. The north coil is red/green and the south coil is black/white. Took me a while to realize that.
I also did my NG3 in a similar manner, but I think the coil wires are different color codes and you can't run them split-coil (single coil.)
Hope the PDF helps.
Looking in the other photos I don’t really see the line and this is honestly the first I’ve heard of a Dingwall neck splitting. To me it almost looks like a shadow from the different pieces of maple shrinking a bit differently. The front of the headstock looks fine also in the other pics.
Definitely worth digging into before a purchase but I don’t actually believe that’s a split.(I am just looking on my phone however)
That bass has been rode hard I think and IIRC travelled a few continents. I believe we’ve seen it around in the past.
I bet there is some mojo in that neck!
It’s an interesting piece at $3500 CAD (comes up as $4300CAD)It’d probably be a pretty good value.
if you see where the red arrow is there is a small ridge where the maple has shrunk differently
same on the green arrow you can see it even under the sticker.
this isn’t super uncommon. I’ve experienced it with walnut too.
it happened on my old voodoo 6 a light sanding on the back of the neck and it’s smooth as butta.
Looks like is the key phrase.
When I had lines like this on the neck of my Z2, it was just because the wood had shrunk slightly and left the glue protruding-much like seasonal “fret sprout”.
I sanded and oiled the neck and it’s been perfect since.
So it’s worth inspecting to see if the joint is actually open - it might be a non-issue.
But on an internet sale, better to err on the side of caution!
Still, IF you catch it before anything lets go, it’s an easy enough fix - but could cause quite a bit of collateral damage if it let go with a string under tension.
I've experienced it with a couple Warwicks with wenge necks, mostly on that same headstock area. I never bothered to do anything to them but they were all fine.
That's exactly what I was going to say. I have an older SJ5 that has walnut inserts (on a maple neck) where the graphite strips were installed and I can feel the ridges. It's just differences between the woods.
