Worst Neckdive You've Experienced

[GonePlaid]

Well now someone’s said it....

Literally every tbird with the original neck. Fenderbirds are sick but the neck on all three thirds I’ve played dropped straight to the floor. Neck was so heavy thought the thing would fall off the strap.

My Bird is a non reverse. No neck dive. Can't say about reverse Birds, never played one.

 

[DavidBohm]

Saddam Hussein's execution.

 

[Microbass]

Saddam Hussein's execution.

Whoa.

Outstanding.

 

[phrenny]

BC Rich ironbird!

 

[Giffro]

My Bird is a non reverse. No neck dive. Can't say about reverse Birds, never played one.

Hey there Plaid...I would say this bird has a worse neck dive than you would ever have..lol

 

[micguy]

Kramer aluminum necked basses - had a couple for decades. Great basses - sound great, fun to play while you're young and can hang on to the thing. Wear steel toed shoes, though...

 

[Oly Spart]

Ibanez SR505... horrible!!
Not to speak about the fragile finish that was damaged by nails hovering after 4 hours playing.
Very expansive bad bass.

 

[woodensoul]

+1 Hamer Chaparral 12 string & 1966 Gretsch 6071. I love em both & would never sell either of them, they are gorgeous & ya just can't get that sound out of anything else. but seriously bad neck dive.

 

[GonePlaid]

Hey there Plaid...I would say this bird has a worse neck dive than you would ever have..lol
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I've heard tourists exclaim "OMG, the bird committed suicide!" I just

 

[BassJuju]

I have a Gretsch 5440LS and while I love the tone, it has incredible neck dive. I played it this Saturday night for about 2 hours and it was hard to move around the fretboard the last half hour. I do love the tone and I wouldn't sell for twice what I paid, but I may have to sit when I play it going forward.

 

[Crooker]

Yamaha bb 300.
I love it though, plays and sound s great. It's my main gigging Bass.

 

[dj johno]

Have very nice Harley Benton Viola Bass, finish is good, neck dive is awful

 

[MrCrane]

Have very nice Harley Benton Viola Bass, finish is good, neck dive is awful

Likewise, but that's the nature of the beast.

 

[Hippopaulimus]

I bought this 1960s Japanese bass in eighth grade.
Thin body, big thick round neck.
High action and no side fret markers on the white neck binding.
Used this all through high school, but it made me a damn good player by the time I got my hands on a decent bass.

 

[bryan gibson]

Custom SG-type bass, built by our buddy Bob (Bob Wallace Custom Guitars). It is basically an immaculate take on a Gibson, with crazy-nice construction, hand-wound pickups, etc. With the 34" scale it sounds amazing but is impossible to play standing up due to neck dive and extended reach. My brother keeps it securely locked away in his studio and I've used it to cut several tracks...while sitting down of course Yeah, I know, Pix or it didn't happen....

 

[Matt Morgan]

1998 Warwick Thumb bolt-on 6 string. It must have weighed 12+ lbs., short upper horn, terrible strap button position, a neck that was made out of recycled anvils and the head stock was composed of depleted Uranium or some other rare earth element that desperately wanted to rejoin the earth's core.
It delivered that Warwick killer, punchy, growling tone that I totally loved and I gigged it and recorded with it for a couple years but it was utterly exhausting to wear for any length of time.

 

[Eddie LeBlanc]

1998 Warwick Thumb bolt-on 6 string. It must have weighed 12+ lbs., short upper horn, terrible strap button position, a neck that was made out of recycled anvils and the head stock was composed of depleted Uranium or some other rare earth element that desperately wanted to rejoin the earth's core.
It delivered that Warwick killer, punchy, growling tone that I totally loved and I gigged it and recorded with it for a couple years but it was utterly exhausting to wear for any length of time.

I was told Warwick's design of their necks incorporated a metal channel piece included into the truss rod area. This idea increasing the neck weight tremendously, but added strength and helped to eliminate dead spots, but at a cost of added neck weight. Some say a real dumb idea, and maybe alternatives like carbon fiber inserts would have been a much better lighter option, like Spector does.

I know my Warwick Infinity SE is a bass ball bat sized neck, and will wear you out while playing it. I gave up on trying to
be playin it all nite, sometime ago, and only use it for a couple of tunes. Shame, because it is truly a beautiful exotic woods expensive German bass. The body is arched and chambered. But a diver.

 

[bassbenj]

My worst neck dive ever is my Carlo Robelli 8 string. Body has NO horns at all and is super light like celotex or something. And of course headstock is filled with tuners. All I can say is what were they thinking?

 

[Unclejackrock]

My Gibson Blackbird was a head dropper before i moved the upper strap button.

 

[Gaolee]

This Matsumoku built 80s Memphis bass. Tiny body plus a 34" scale neck-thru - the recipe for for dive.

Drop dead beautiful wood, and a sweet floomy prog sort of tone. But it neck dives faster than Dracula. A wide suede back leather strap fixes it since it's so light.

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My first bass was a Vantage that looked something like that. It was bolt on, and mostly maple. It was about a zillion pounds and all the weight seemed to be in the headstock. It was nearly unplayable. It's a miracle I didn't just give up and take up kazoo or something.