plastic or wood?

A useful place to check would be the Fender web site, where they specifically state that the body of a Standard Jazz (aka MIM Jazz) is poplar. Now unless someone went and redefined the word poplar, I would say its wood.

On the other hand, wood, at a high enough temperature, will become plastic.

FF

 

Yea, its made from wood.... not high quality, and they coat it with layers and layers of laquer (which is probobly why your father thought it was plastic)... but it is wood. The only basses I know that are not wood are the Corts and the Ibanez Ergodynes.

 

the ampeg dan armstrongs are made out of lucite.

 

I believe the correct answer is:

"Well Dad, if you think I should have an all-wood bass, then there's this guy [insert high-end luthier here (just not Modulus or Zon, they have "plastic" necks! )] you should call, here's his number. But I don't need your old-fashioned 'wood' stuff! I can do anything with a plastic bass! Come on, don't buy me that new one! Aww, man!"

 

Old Steinbergers have 100% graphite bodies and necks, don't they?

 

It was carbon fiber, plastic, or some other material. It was NOT graphite.

 

Carbon Fiber = Graphite.

For example: Modulus graphite necks. The slogan? The Power Of Carbon Fiber

 

Yeah, carbon fibre is fibres of carbon (hence the name), and what kind of carbon, graphite, which is a fairly heavily "compressed" form of carbon, created by high pressures acting on elemental carbon. Too bad I couldn't figure out a way to cheaply compress graphite to diamond.

Geoff

 

That's not too bad, I've come across people who thought guitar strings were made of actual string, and one kid even said this to me when I had my bass at school:
"Chris I believe guitars have FIVE strings"

 

My Zon has a plastic neck. Darn cheap thing warped when I left it out in the sun.