Longscale Stratobass

[awilkie84]

Putting a standard strat body with a standard 34" neck is just never going to look right. I mean look at the final photoshop above, it seems weird and distorted looking, right? There's a reason they made the "Les Paul Oversized" bass, because a regular-sized Les Paul body looks wrong with a bass neck so they "oversized" it to compensate for proportion. Industrial designers think hard to keep the lines sexy.

I think it looks just fine. It's not like we used a Bullet body.

 

[Meyatch]

I don't think this comparison shot on here is entirely accurate. Here's an actual strat body with a short scale bronco neck on it. Its mine, and the bridge is already very close to where the body roundover starts.

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[Gorn]

I don't think this comparison shot on here is entirely accurate. Here's an actual strat body with a short scale bronco neck on it. Its mine, and the bridge is already very close to where the body roundover starts.

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How well did the neck fit into the pocket? What kind of strat is that? How does it sound? It may not be long scale but I like the chunkiness of bronco necks.

 

[vegas532]

ESP had this little gem, as well:

 

[Meyatch]

How well did the neck fit into the pocket? What kind of strat is that? How does it sound? It may not be long scale but I like the chunkiness of bronco necks.

I had to cut away some of the body, and pickguard, but it was fairly close. I don't know what kind of strat it is, its a squier, and its plywood.

 

[Gorn]

ESP had this little gem, as well:View attachment 467447

It's more jaguarey than stratty. Not a fan.

 

[Gorn]

I had to cut away some of the body, and pickguard, but it was fairly close. I don't know what kind of strat it is, its a squier, and its plywood.

If you don't mind, how much of the body? Just the sides of the neck pocket or did you have to deepen it as well? How does it sound?

 

[Meyatch]

If you don't mind, how much of the body? Just the sides of the neck pocket or did you have to deepen it as well? How does it sound?

just the sides, its actually too deep, I've got an extra neck plate in between the body and the neck just to make it playable. It sounds pretty decent. It is not a high quality bass. I did not do high quality work on it, or use high quality components. It was supposed to be a proof of concept in me either doing another one someday, or having one custom built, but I've never gotten around to doing it. Its too hard to find a painted hardtail strat body for a reasonable price.

It blows my mind Fender doesn't make a stratobass, its one of the coolest basses I've ever seen. I love the ones that Landing makes, but I can't afford one.

 

[vegas532]

It's more jaguarey than stratty. Not a fan.

Actually, it's TOTALLY Bass VI. The pickup layout is TOTALLY stratty, though.

 

[J Posega]

ESP had this little gem, as well:View attachment 467447

What's the model name/ number? That's amazing!

 

[vegas532]

It's the Bass IV. It was an ESP Japan model that was a Tetsuya Signature model.

 

[khutch]

I don't think this comparison shot on here is entirely accurate.

You could be right but it was a good faith attempt to generate an accurate picture. The Bronco neck is a 19 fret neck and in theory there is 10 inches from the 19th fret to the bridge saddles. If you use a 20 fret long scale neck the 20th fret will be about where your 19th fret is and in theory there is 10.7 inches from the 20th fret to the bridge. So a long scale neck should have the bridge about 3/4 of an inch back from where yours is. You would be in a better position to tell us what that might mean than anyone else here but the difference between the two is smaller than one might expect.

 

[Meyatch]

You could be right but it was a good faith attempt to generate an accurate picture. The Bronco neck is a 19 fret neck and in theory there is 10 inches from the 19th fret to the bridge saddles. If you use a 20 fret long scale neck the 20th fret will be about where your 19th fret is and in theory there is 10.7 inches from the 20th fret to the bridge. So a long scale neck should have the bridge about 3/4 of an inch back from where yours is. You would be in a better position to tell us what that might mean than anyone else here but the difference between the two is smaller than one might expect.

I need to dig the strat bass out of a closet to measure, but looking at another bass, and an actual (fender) strat I have here, the forearm contour on the strat is much more pronounced than on a bass. There's room on the body, but the bridge would hang over some of the contour.

 

[khutch]

... so anyone who is contemplating this should be thinking about how to fill in the space below the bridge where the body curves away from it. It is not just cosmetics, the bridge screws go through that area and the bridge will really want to be supported from below somehow.