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Ok, well... all I can say is that I'm a T-bird player since '74 and have experienced much worse. Never wanted to own any of those - but still own/play my '64 Thinderbird II.
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Worst neck dive
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Ok, well... all I can say is that I'm a T-bird player since '74 and have experienced much worse. Never wanted to own any of those - but still own/play my '64 Thinderbird II.
Of the basses I've tried, the Warwick Thumb and Jaguar-shaped basses (Fender, Squier, etc.) stick as the 'worst divers' i've played.
I guess my 3-bolt ASAT is an outlier as even the chinciest of straps keeps it well balanced, standing or sitting. My G&L JB Trib is significantly worse, albeit perfectly manageable with a decent strap. My Bacchus jazz bass is also considerably neck divier, as was my Affinity jazz. Guess I got lucky.
I remember trying a 5 string Warwick Streamer LX circa 1999-2000. I had tried a 4 string Thumb in the store, and had pretty much made up my mind to get a 5 string (that needed to be ordered), so I tried the Streamer LX to get an idea of the neck profile. I reckon the body must have been made out of balsa wood! As soon as I put in on a strap, the headstock nearly hit the deck.
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bassslinger flats,
my gibson 1966 gibson thunderbird non-reversed:
headstock is like nine inches long... even w/the tinier grover tuners: BIG DIVE! you should've seen the size of the muscle on my port-side's hand just south of the pinky - it got HUGE when I was working this live! now it's a sit-down sitch w/it for recording... I've used short-scales for gigs 'pert-near always since 1998.
(HUGE respect to @godofthunder59 for both the pickguard and the bridge!)
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my gibson 1966 gibson thunderbird non-reversed:
headstock is like nine inches long... even w/the tinier grover tuners: BIG DIVE! you should've seen the size of the muscle on my port-side's hand just south of the pinky - it got HUGE when I was working this live! now it's a sit-down sitch w/it for recording... I've used short-scales for gigs 'pert-near always since 1998.
(HUGE respect to @godofthunder59 for both the pickguard and the bridge!)
on bass, watt
mike watt's hoot page
Ken Smith Burner 5 string. Great sounding and playing bass that I wish I had kept, but all of the weight was in the neck.
I tried a $4k+ German-made Sadowsky 5-string. The bass was super lightweight, but as soon as I sat down with it, uh-oh, GAS-relieving neck dive. Didn’t even plug it in.
The absolute worst for me was a Hoffner-style violin bass. Long neck, small lightweight body.
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My pleasure my bird brother! They do dive like a Stuka but I'm so used to it I don't notice
they're long mothers but I have gibbon like arms and can even reach the G tuner lol.
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Measure?Measure twice, drill once!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was experimenting with pick guard designs before settling on that one.
Hofner Ignition Club bass. Even for a short scale it was almost determined to hit the floor if you released the neck. Probably one of the biggest reasons I let it go down the road.
I had a Spector NS-JH5 that had a super light weight flame maple body, but the neck was still the massive 35" scale 3 piece maple neck bolted on. so any time I let go of the neck it dove straight down unless I wore the strap a certain way. Mind you, I'm short so the headstock would only be like 3 inches from the ground when it dove.
