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Potential Project: Schecter Neck on Precision MIM

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Scrappersa

Jan 12, 2009
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www.pancakeshouserecords.com
#1
Hey guys, I am new building instruments and making large modifications, but I would love to learn more about it and try it in the future. It is truly a beautiful art form. When I was in middle school, I built a body but I moved before I could wire any electronics and attach a neck.

I've been playing on a Schecter Diamond Series Custom-4 for the last five years. I've tried playing other basses and I just haven't been able to find anything that feels as nice that that neck. I love the width, I love the extra 4 frets, and I love the feeling of it. I recently bought a Fender Precision MIM and the neck is too fat for me. I've considered doing a quick switch with a Jazz neck, but I think I want to take it further and instead attach the neck of a Schecter.

A couple things about the Schecter. The neck width is 1 1/2 inches at the nut and 2 1/2 inches at the 24th fret. The Precision is 1 5/8 inches at the nut and 2 1/2 at the 20th fret. I haven't gotten in there yet to measure the pockets, but the Schecter is considerably longer. The scale length of the necks are different too. From the nut to the edge, the Precision is 23 5/8 inches long while the Schecter is 26 1/2 inches.

I would not just jump into this immediately, but I want to know if it is possible to accomplish.
 
#2
Unless you are going fretless, then the placement of the frets would be incorrect when switching from a 20 fret to a a 24 fret. That is unless the last four frets are part of an overhang.
If you are up to it, a router could be used to lengthen the neck pocket in order to make the 24 fret neck 34" in the P's body, because as of now, it would have a total scale of 36 1/8".
 
#3
Thanks flow. Sorry for the long wait time on the response. I've been doing some research. I bought a jazz neck and put it on the precision but there are some things that I still don't like about it.

If I wanted to do this, I would really need to just route the length of the pocket and make a few adjustments in the bridge? (Assuming that the depth of the pockets are the same.
 
#4
The scale length is the same, 34"( distance from nut to bridge = scale length) The adjustment would be to rout the Fender for the Schecter neck so that the Schecter neck stays at scale, if you have the room for this, it should be an easy fill and rout.
 
#8
If you don't understand everything, I explained it in detail below, if you did just skip my post.

By the way, CAPS are not yelling lol, I'm too tired to bold everything.

What people are saying is that BOTH necks are 34" scale. This means that if EITHER neck is installed on ANY bass, then the nut of either neck MUST BE 34" to the bridge give or take an 1/8". So, if your Fender P had a 20 fret neck on it and you want to put a 24 fret neck on, you still have to have the frets in the same spot relative to the body. This means you need to route the bass body for an extended slot to allow space for those 4 frets. So, your neck pocket would be about twice as long then (that's a rough guess... you HAVE TO measure exactly and route exactly the right neck pocket).

Rockingbird is saying that you can put the neck on now without routing and to make the bridge 34" from the nut, you would unscrew it and move it closer. This is the easiest and definitely safest way to go (for your fingers and your bass); HOWEVER, your neck now protrudes more from the body and you could have neck dive AND ALSO the pickup is now in a different spot relative to the bridge (cause you moved the bridge) and so the tone might be different.
 

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