Neckdive

[stiles72]

I play T-birds, but when I joined an oldies group they asked me to use a P-bass (to fit the look of the group). For the first month I always felt like the P-bass was "neck diving", since the headstock was much more substantial than my birds, and there was no tail fin to act as a counterbalance. Eventually I got used to it - but it just depends on what you are used to.

 

[tripp2k]

2 J-basses here (62RI and Jaco) and neither has neckdive. Don't get me started on my Hamer Junior and Ibanez Artist guitar experience though...both had horrible neckdive similar to the OP and I had to move them along because I spent too much energy and weird hand angles trying to counter the dive than playing properly.

 

[honeyiscool]

Oh my Musicmaster Bass definitely neck dives a bit. It's got massive tuners and a tiny, tiny poplar body, so you do the math.

But not really a problem because the whole thing's like 7 pounds, maybe.

 

[BullHorn]

4 kg is on the light side and with a light body and heavy tuners neck-dive is unavoidable. What year and make is your Fender? Pictures would help especially back of headstock. My CIJ 57 RI Fender P had that problem and a set of Ultralite tuners fixed it. If you have vintage tuners I recommend that option, but that'll cost around $80-$100.

I don't know if Fender ever did maple body. Are you sure?

My MIA is '05. I can't find the pics I took a few years ago, just this one:

S/N is Z5150951