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NO WAY! Single cut version of the Ibanez BTB!!

#62
Interesting.

I love my 675--it plays beautifully, it sounds great (in spite of the goofball playing it), and it balances well.

But man, is it heavy. I stand up when recording (just playing around) and after an hour or so I have to switch to something else. I can't imagine how much more of a boat anchor the singlecut would be.
 
#68
Seriously-Their Premium line is no joke.

Not many companies can match the materials and craftsmanship in these price ranges.

Just wish they would spice up the colors with some transparent Blues and Greens, all my Ibbys lines up start looking like a dark gloomy forest.

Would also like to see more ash and maple-need some high end Ibbys that "Snap" and "pop" a little more.

By the was-I am an extreme Ibanez collector and player.
 
#69
I wish they'd done a SC version of the Soundgear personally, but I'm glad that the whole single cut thing is making its way into mass market, at least potentially.
If I hadn't ended up the custom route, I would be playing Soundgear basses without a doubt, serious playability and tone at a seriously good price.

Eude
 
#70
CoarseBass said:
I think what we're seeing at the upper 'wing' joint may be why it took so long to get a single cut - it's hard to integrate into the design cheaply, or 'cost effectively.'

Part of the designed in BTB aesthetic is a neck laminate that is wider than the fingerboard - you can see this at the neck/body junction of any BTB, where the maple laminates are a bit wider than the end of the fingerboard and run through the length of the body.

This isn't a big deal on the standard version, because any extra neck meat is milled away as part of the neck profiling and horn shaping.

For the single cut, a corresponding removal of material would mean the upper body bought would need to have a corresponding 'jog' to meet the neck, which itself would look weird. Eliminating the jog by thinning the neck laminates to the width of the fingerboard would still require a kink in the body bought at the the neck joint, which is harder and more expensive to do.
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If you look at the dead-on pic of the front, that's not the case. The treble side has a VERY small amount of neck wood between it and the wing. The bass side has A LOT more wood showing.
 
#71
I think this is a great start to something I would love to see hit the market. If they fix the bass side where the body and neck joins and also smooth out the upper contours a bit it is going to be an amazing looking single cut.
 
#73
Maybe they will in the future, if this one will be released and if it's an succes :)

eude said:
I wish they'd done a SC version of the Soundgear personally, but I'm glad that the whole single cut thing is making its way into mass market, at least potentially.
If I hadn't ended up the custom route, I would be playing Soundgear basses without a doubt, serious playability and tone at a seriously good price.

Eude
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#74
True. Though it's not as bad as their guitars which are almost always black xD

6stringpanda said:
Seriously-Their Premium line is no joke.

Not many companies can match the materials and craftsmanship in these price ranges.

Just wish they would spice up the colors with some transparent Blues and Greens, all my Ibbys lines up start looking like a dark gloomy forest.

Would also like to see more ash and maple-need some high end Ibbys that "Snap" and "pop" a little more.

By the was-I am an extreme Ibanez collector and player.
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#77
Thomas Kievit said:
16.5 mm string spacing like all of the other 6 string BTB's.
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Yeah I wish the BTB7 were that way. 15.5 mm is tight. Difficult popping and "digging in" fingerstyle. I have 17.5 mm on my custom NYBW basses. It's nice and in-between for me but my 19 mm buddies call it narrow. Love that BTB7 but 15.5 mm... :rollno:
 
#79
TigerInATrance said:
That's the first singlecut that really makes me want to own one. It looks like the string spacing is nice and tight too...

Beautiful looking instrument!!!!
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Being a BTB, I couldn't imagine the spacing would be tight. BTBs are traditionally wide spaced...

edit: 16.5?? did I miss something? Every BTB I've played with seems wider than that... That's how I ended up with my B206SM and my Studio 6. They had narrow string spacing compared to the BTB676 I keep drooling over.
 
#80
awilkie84 said:
If you look at the dead-on pic of the front, that's not the case. The treble side has a VERY small amount of neck wood between it and the wing. The bass side has A LOT more wood showing.
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I saw a traditional doublecut BTB at a store today and realized what we're seeing.

The way they these things are built at the factory, the neck stock doesn't appear to taper where the body wings are glued onto the sides.

Probably to save money, the singlecut uses the same exact construction method.

The end result is that the bass side DOES indeed have a lot of neck wood showing, because there is simply more length of it than on the treble side. Which is why the bass has a very odd, not-quite parallel stripe of light colored wood running all the way up the body that shows as an expanding width between the dark topwood and the neck itself.

A visual shame really, because this production method makes the neck look like it was attached to the body with a strange stripe running the length of one side. How this could not pass QC is beyond me.

Lonnybass
 

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