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Musicman Neck-through...is it really new?

#43
elliot_the_bassist said:
My question is who would want to feel paint on the neck while they are trying to play? seems like the original stingray with maple neck would be way smoother than the matching paint of these new stingrays
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Do you really feel paint? I thought most mass manufactured basses have a finish over the paint (or wood). If you have a maple neck, doesn't it have a finish? So won't the experience pretty much be the same?

I have an old Aria Pro II with a painted neck, and it's just as smooth as the ones that don't.
 
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lfmn16 said:
Damn, now I won't be able to sleep either! :crying:
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You know what else keeps me up at night? Multiple pieced bodies. I was happy with my Warwick. Plays and sounds great. Until, that is, I found out it has a three piece body. ***. Now I have to sell it. Or my P bass is a two piece body. I'm done with that POS. So what if it sounds great and plays great. Its about the minutia.
 
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TMARK said:
You know what else keeps me up at night? Multiple pieced bodies. I was happy with my Warwick. Plays and sounds great. Until, that is, I found out it has a three piece body. ***. Now I have to sell it. Or my P bass is a two piece body. I'm done with that POS. So what if it sounds great and plays great. Its about the minutia.
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I don't own a single P-bass with flats and a tort. WHAT HAVE I DONE!?!?!
 
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#48
wintremute said:
I read that, too. However, I thought that they did have neck-throughs before. So...this IS my reasearch!

Thank you TalkBassDataBase (i.e., the community).


Also, there was the 2nd question in the post: Do you think it will make much of a difference?
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This is the very first paragraph of the article and you still needed to ask:

"Ernie Ball's booth at NAMM this year was buzzing with a new neck-through version of their flagship StingRay Bass. Available in four and five-string versions, the StingRay Neck Through is built with a 3-piece maple neck the runs the entire length of its ash body. The StingRay has only featured bolt-on construction since its introduction in 1976."
 
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TMARK said:
You know what else keeps me up at night? Multiple pieced bodies. I was happy with my Warwick. Plays and sounds great. Until, that is, I found out it has a three piece body. ***. Now I have to sell it. Or my P bass is a two piece body. I'm done with that POS. So what if it sounds great and plays great. Its about the minutia.
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And necks - maple is sooooooooooo bright I need sunglasses, which is another no no.
 
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eyeballkid said:
Ive never understood this frustration about the 19mm string spacing. Ive owed a metric ton of basses that have had all kinds of spacing, neck widths, and profiles and Ive NEVER said I "cant" play this because of the string spacing! Neck profiles and the balancing of the bass are much bigger factors to me. Ive played really narrow Ibanez's and wide spaced basses too and ALL of them I can adapt to. Ive got big fingers too. Whats the problem for all these guys?
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Me, either. I guess I actually kinda prefer what some people would see as narrow. Neck profile matters the most for me. Some necks make my hand cramp up a bit, others make playing seem effortless.

Apparently string spacing is a huge concern to some, though.

two fingers said:
I use a lot of motion on my right (plucking) hand when playing. You might even say I play "aggressively". Narrow basses don't work for me because I tend to hit other strings when bringing my plucking fingers or pick down hard. My only point is that there are more if us than there are bassists who insist on neck through in my view. I just don't see neck through grabbing up lots of sales for those sitting on the fence about buying a Ray. However, I would own a 5HS by the end of the week if it came in 19mm. And I think that 19mm would get quite a few potential buyers over the line.
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I play with both fingers and a pick, and I play quite aggressively. You might even say that I'm "heavy-handed." However, one of my 4-strings has about... 16mm string spacing, I think. The other is slightly wider, but not much.

elliot_the_bassist said:
My question is who would want to feel paint on the neck while they are trying to play? seems like the original stingray with maple neck would be way smoother than the matching paint of these new stingrays
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Me. That would be me. In direct response to your question.

I really prefer the matching finish. And basses with finish on the neck as well. It would annoy the crap out of me, visually, having a bass that was neck through but did not have matching finish on the back of the neck.
 
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Double E said:
Pretty sure Fender's 5 string basses are 19mm. I must be a wimp because I notice the difference and prefer the slightly wider spacing.
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They have had some 19mm 5ers in the past (I know the Roscoe Beck V was 19mm, not sure about any other models), but all their 5ers have been 18mm for many years now. I quite like the spacing on Fender 5ers, but never had an issue with the spacing on the SR5 or Bongo5s that I've owned either.
 

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