Worst neck dive

[burgerdj]

Warwick Thumb NT. Beautiful and sounded incredible, but incredibly challenging to use in any situation where standing was required. My short wingspan contributed to the problem.

 

[v-12]

Thumb, thunderbird

 

[Winton]

For me it would be this Burny-Fernandes LSB-135.
It has a 35" neck and strap pin at the 16th fret.

 

[J-Bass RMR]

Orange O-Bass.
I changed both strap Button locations, which cured the neck dive, but it (still) has a forward roll.
Maybe that's typical in a bass without "horns" - or maybe I should have left the upper strap button where it was...
I've only played FSOs. It is a nice bass though.
Maybe I just need to get busy with the sit-ups!

 

[BassParrott]

The worst for me was an old small bodied Kramer 8 string bass with an aluminum neck. That thing would dive for the floor I record time!

 

[Wambemando]

Fender Tony Franklin Fretless Precision.
Lightweight alder body paired with an ebony fingerboard, 70s style tuners, and Hipshot Xtender. Perfect recipe for neck diving.
I replaced the tuners and Xtender with Gotoh Res-O-Lites and that helped immensely.
(I reinstalled the originals when I sold it.)

 

[pbass2]

I'd rather play a 20 lb bass than one that I have to hold up the damn neck while I play--talk about non-conducive to a good performance. I couldn't even hang with the Casady I had for a while for that reason, as great as it sounded.

 

[Artman]

An aluminum necked Kramer two-ton heavy thing. Glad that I don't have to carry that on my shoulder anymore. Ugh.

 

[Marc DLarosa]

Was there neck dive before the Prius, when we all drove Camaro's, and Mustangs?

 

[singlemalt]

Another Kramer 450B aluminum neck diver here. And it was all of 12lb.
What a beast.

 

[N4860]

Either a Jack Cassidy or G&L ASAT. Hard to say which is worse.

 

[Robert Booker]

What bass have you played that had the worst neck dive? For me, it was my Epiphone EB-3. I couldn't let go of the neck for a millisecond before the headstock did a kamakazi attack on the floor.

Same.....an EB0 and an EB3. Didn't learn my lesson the first time I guess.

 

[megarat]

Alembic Essence. The mass of that small body just can’t compete with the long-scale neck. The body’s upper horn is allegedly elongated to compensate for this, but in my experience it wasn’t enough.

 

[JIO]

I don't know...that's so cool I would have stood sideways.

Anyone stating a Fender bass other than the more recent Tele-guitar bodied bass or the stupid reverse body (can't even recall it's name) Jag-style bass neck diving is stretching the term to say the least.

 

[Grinderman]

The first bass I owned. Washburn Vulture II.

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[andruca]

From the ones I've regularly played it was the Epiphone Viola. Cool bass tho', and the nimbleness of the whole thing makes up for the dive.

 

[dannylectro]

That bass!

 

[Hummergeist]

By far not the worse, unless you were being facetious.

Worst in my experience, which is all I can say, really. Nope not being facetious.

 

[Matt Morgan]

Warwick Thumb 6 string bolt on.

 

[Leonid Nidis]

Fender kingman acoustic,I actually cracked a glass table with the headstock when it dived.