Why is it called "bolt on neck" when they all use...

[Hoochie Coochie Man]

For those who are interested, (and who haven't already checked Wikipedia), here is some information to muddy the waters. They do quote part of the Machinery Handbook which I tried to paraphrase from memory in a previous post.

The artical does confirm the ambiguity others here have found in the terminology.

Screw - Wikipedia

 

[tjh]

"Why is it called "bolt on neck" when all these types of builds have screws?"

... for a similar reason that 'machine heads' are almost always referred to as 'tuners' ...

... and the gasoline 'engine' in your car is often referred to as a 'motor' ...

... etc., etc.

It gets the point across in everyday speech, and is accepted as a general replacement without going into a great deal of detail ...

.. or something like that .. kinda, sorta ...

 

[Hoochie Coochie Man]

The projectile launched by a crossbow is called a bolt, or a quarrel.

One on-line dictionary defines quarrel as:

An angry argument or disagreement, typically between people who are usually on good terms.

 

[toomanyslurpees]

Why do they call them fingers but I never see them 'fing'?

 

[two fingers]

Ah crap. Who let the engineers in here? They always throw definitions and facts and crap into a perfectly good sarcastic conversation.

 

[xnewyorka]

Why is it called "bolt on neck" when all these types of builds have screws?

http://www.dailycivil.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/bolt-vs-screw.jpg1_.jpg1_.jpg

C'mon people. We know the difference between screws and bolts that require nuts to fasten. Anyone want to take part in the new social movement to call these instruments "screw on necks"?

Rallies? Marches?

If you people start screwing around with the names of my basses, I'm bolting!

 

[Basshappi]

 

[two fingers]

If you people start screwing around with the names of my basses, I'm bolting!

Thank you for bringing it back TB style.

 

[AcridSaint]

Screw-on neck means that the neck itself is threaded and screwed onto the bass. Bolt-on makes sense although it doesn't use bolts, because it's an attached part. And I don't know why I even answered this thread

 

[Hoochie Coochie Man]

All of my basses have screw off necks.

Can anyone recommend a bass with a bayonet mount neck?

I once did a show with a keyboard player who we asked to sit in with us, and he objected to playing the song Why Dont We Get Drunk (And Screw), because his mother was in the audience.

Maybe she was an engineer, and would have objected to our improper use of the terminology.

 

[packrat]

All of my basses have screw off necks.

Can anyone recommend a bass with a bayonet mount neck?

And then we can have a Nikon vs canon argument about mount suze and direction!

 

[Oldbasslover]

Personally,

What the heck is wrong with bubble gum, spit and duct tape. Those three items when mated proportionally makes anything rock solid.
Bolts, we don’t need no stinking bolts.

 

[Oldbasslover]

All of my basses have screw off necks.

Can anyone recommend a bass with a bayonet mount neck?

I once did a show with keyboard player who we asked to sit in with us, and he objected to playing the song Why Dont We Get Drunk (And Screw), because his mother was in the audience.

Maybe she was an engineer, and would have objected to our improper use of the terminology.

Speaking of moms...
There was a great video short I saw a while back -
Two guys are sitting around arguing what the piece of real estate that is between the scrotum and the anus.
As they are arguing, Mom comes in and one of the boys says “lets ask Mom, she’ll know. ‘

“Mom, whats that thing called between the a$$hole and the ball sac?”

She looks at the two of them, looks at what is between them and replies “The coffee table.”

 

[petrus61]

The projectile launched by a crossbow is called a bolt, or a quarrel.

One on-line dictionary defines quarrel as:

An angry argument or disagreement, typically between people who are usually on good terms.

Let's not get into the cross definitions of a quiver.

 

[StatesideRambler]

Relax a bit, it's slang.

 

[Eminor3rd]

CARROTS CARROTS CARROTS

 

[Hoochie Coochie Man]

A lead screw is not the opposite of a lag screw. A ball screw is not what some may think it might be. An Archimedes screw is a water pump. An air screw is a propeller.

I have to go now. It's time for me to bolt.

 

[rocu]

This thread is nearly as good as this one: Post a funnier picture than the one above - Parallel Universe Edition

 

[navijaz]

Why do people order a "panini" when it should really be a "panino"?

Why do people use the terms "conservative" and "liberal" as opposites and in a generally wrong sense?

Why do they speak of the weight of something when they actually mean the mass?

[...]

 

[Ironbar]

There wasn't a vote for "Don't give a darn"