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stingray graphite neck!

#41
Jim C said:
I just find it amusing that some serious MM fanatics will not admit to something that can be heard or seen on a VU meter and complained by a bunhc of guys that play MM basses daily. I just play diffrently to compensate; no big deal.

No to say they all do it, but plenty of them do
Don't hear guys saying that most Fenders don't have a quiet C# or D
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Apologize for the off topic, but has anyone found this to be true with a pickup swap and using the Nordstrand version, or is it just the design itself?
 
#42
darthplagis said:
as for the weight issue, status necks are made of HDF (high density foam) wrapped in the carbon and then finished with the poly. (like a surf board with CF instead of fibre glass)

so they are pretty much hollow :)
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So, do other manufacturers like Modulus and Moses have similar processes? Are there necks also light weight?

I'm just curious because I'd love to have a Status neck, but they don't seem to make one that fits my bass.
 
#45
phillipkregg said:
So, do other manufacturers like Modulus and Moses have similar processes? Are there necks also light weight?

I'm just curious because I'd love to have a Status neck, but they don't seem to make one that fits my bass.
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im pretty sure both modulus and moses are solid, carbon fiber and resin, as a kind of plasticy neck. though i have no experience with them.

what type of bass? i know they do only 4 string P and J and i think maybe 5 string MM. i dont know of anyone who does replacments for any other companies neck pockets like laklands or sandberg etc
 
#46
I'm bumping this thread. Just had one installed on a my Stingray. It's a fretless neck. I like it, but oddly, it still has many behaviors of a wooden neck.

I used to have a Modulus Flea, and this Status neck is quite different from it. Less aggressive, so to speak.
 
#49
drnknmstr said:
I'm bumping this thread. Just had one installed on a my Stingray. It's a fretless neck. I like it, but oddly, it still has many behaviors of a wooden neck.

I used to have a Modulus Flea, and this Status neck is quite different from it. Less aggressive, so to speak.
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Did you by Tony's fretless?

I almost pulled the trigger on that.

What did you put it on?

Honestly I want to put a Status 5 neck on a Ray35.
 
#50
I bought Tony's fretless neck.

I had a 91 Stingray with an epoxied fretless neck. Decided to give it a shot with the Status. I've got standard D'Addario nickels on it.

Needed it to be professionally installed and setup because it the bolt pattern was different and I wanted machine screws. All in all, a worthwhile buy to me so far. Still has the typical deadspots, though to a lesser degree. As much as that may sound like a bad thing, I think it means that there are certain woodier elements to it. Maybe it's because of the coupling of the neck?

Mine doesn't have the tightest neck joint pairing.

Has less of those graphite woes some may have. It's actually not too much brighter or punchier than the epoxied board I have.

Strangely (though not really) the intonation is much easier and accurate and it has the focus of a fretted bass but can growl like a fretless when applied. Little less "mwah" than the wooden neck.

Sonically, it's sounding more like Michael Manring (!) than Pino Pallandino, or what have you.
 

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