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What bass has the thinest neck?

#42
Drake said:
The ibanez soundgears are supremely thin and narrow.. the higher the number on soundgear... the slimmer the neck.. as in the sr800s and up are slimmer than sr 400s etc... the 400s are still pretty little though... but the 800s and up... whoa.. too small for me to play without cramping.

Mike
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I'll say Ibanez SR series too, but that's ^ not what the higher numbers designate :rollno:

An SR305 has the same neck dimensions as the Prestige SR5005E, and all the other SR5's at 45mm wide nut x 19.5mm thickness at the 1st fret.
 
#43
For what it's worth, here are some neck width measurements I took ...

Warmoth Jazz 1.517

Spector Legend 4 1.565

MIJ 75RI Jazz (93) 1.497

Squier VMFJ 1.501

Spector P 4 1.636

Schecter C-4 1.502

Mighty Mite J 1.470

RockBass Vette SB 1.514

RockBass Vette W 1.509

Artcore 140 1.553

SX P RW 1.652

SX P RW 2 1.643

All were measured at the nut.
 
#45
I used to have a SR800 type soundgear. I traded it for my current Peavey Cirrus BXP,

But yeah i do miss it being narrow. Although I was hard to slap on it, from my experience.

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#48
Well width-wise (at the nut from edge to edge), I'd have to say Ritter 4 string basses have the thinnest width on a stock neck at 1.18", other than that, I've head that some of Jeordie White's (aka Twiggy Ramirez of Marilyn Manson) custom shopped Gibson basses have necks with width at the nut as slim as 1.0 inch. But then again anything is possible with custom shop, and I don't think most of us here can afford too many customs, so lets stick to the basics. Now as far as my experience, Ibanez Soundgear line of basses has hands down the thinnest neck depth wise (back of neck to front of fingerboard), don't think they were the thinnest necks ever made, but definitely the most comfortable thinnest necks I've played. According to Ibanez's website these basses have a neck depth of .19mm at the first fret which is pretty damn thin and perfect for fast transposing. The Fender Jazz necks are maybe a milimeter or 2 slimmer than the Ibanez SR at the nut, but definitely not thinner (depth wise), I own both and comparred them side by side with a measure tape and by putting them together face to face. For a 5 string, my favorite so far was the Music Man stingray 5, thinnest and slimmest neck I've played yet, although Ritter claims to have the thinnest necks of all stock made bass guitars (nut-width that is) for basses of 4 to 7 strings, and their specs do seem to support that info, never really held or played one, so can't justify from my experience here. But for the comfort and tone, defintely the Ibanez SRs are the best.
 

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