The neck on my Nordy vJ5 is by far the nicest I have ever played. When I had the Jerzy that was a close second but there were a few rough fret ends especially in winter when the FB shrank a slight bit from the lack of humidity.
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Nicest neck you've ever played
- Thread starter Henry D
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Tough question..Played so many!
I love my Sadowsky MV5's...Great feel, great shape/size..Looks the part too, heavy flame all the way down
I love my Sadowsky MV5's...Great feel, great shape/size..Looks the part too, heavy flame all the way down
Definitely Jerzy Drozd. He takes Mike Tobias' innovative asymmetrical profile and flattens it front-to-back, increases the fingerboard radius to 20", adds graphite stiffening bars and the most frictionless satin finish I've ever felt. I've yet to play another wide-spaced (18.5mm) fretless six-string that feels so effortless and non-fatiguing, and the stability is excellent.
They also have a beautifully carved volute that's both extremely comfortable and strengthens the critical neck/tilt-back headstock/truss rod cavity area.
Noice!
My '81 G&L L-1000s and G&L El Toro. The L1K and the El Toro have very different necks, but both of them feel like they belong in my hands.
I can't beleive you find this the nicest neck. Even thou it's short scale it is a preaty thick neck.
They were built in the late seventies and early eighties and not in the 60's like you said. Here's mine:
I'm pretty sure mine is 60s, it's different to all the other's I've seen though, so it doesn't look like the standard issue, may not even be a Diamant. It's got a natural finish on the front of the body, the rest (including neck) is all black, except the headstock which is blonde. And the pickup selector switch is a standard toggle rather than the rotary thing. In fact, the word "Diamant" is nowhere to be found at all on the bass, it only says "Jolana Horovice" (I believe Horovice is the name of the town in which their factory was). So it may not be a Diamant at all. Who knows.
And believe it or not, I love the neck, it feels pretty small to me but I could just be fooled by the string spacing and it being a short-scale. And my big hands.
Neck feel is personal. For me, it has changed over the years. When I first started playing I thought the thinner the better. Fender Jazz, Mustang, EB-3, Guild JS-II, Hagstrom M II (swimming pool) were the coolest things out there. (They were about the only things out there.) I hated Precision sized necks. Ibanez SR necks were seductive. Rick necks, too, became playable, too. As I grew older, I found myself in situations that made tonal choices i.e. Precision Bass sound, more important than comfort. So I had to adapt. After a short while the wide necks became more comfortable. I found out that if you do anything for thirty days in a row I could adapt to it. (It is true for most people. But most people never think they are most people.) I tried a Curbow with a wide, flat neck. I liked it a lot. But the Zon Sonus neck felt pretty good, too. Then I tried a Warwick Dolphin six string. The neck was completely intimidating. It was also very comfortable.
If I had to pick one neck that floored me the first time I picked it up it would have to be an F bass. George Furlanetto builds one of the most comfortable necks on earth. The fit and finish are also stellar as is the tone.
But, then again, there are very few necks I've met that I didn't like.
If I had to pick one neck that floored me the first time I picked it up it would have to be an F bass. George Furlanetto builds one of the most comfortable necks on earth. The fit and finish are also stellar as is the tone.
But, then again, there are very few necks I've met that I didn't like.
My Pedulla Rapture and Thunderbolt necks are the best, most comfortable I've played. Laklands are a close second.
