The long and the short of it

[dezb1]

Lakland has rather good shortscale idea.



And the bass in the pic reminds me of a DeArmond Jetstar, which I like a lot.

[kim]

lakland make some quality stuff. not too fond of the look of most of their basses but i really like the colors and design of this one (though i can only see half)

[robroe]

this makes no sense because the body on the left is smaller than the body on the right. why are they talking about making a neck to bolt on a normal sized bass if they are going to fucking present it with a smaller body.


PEOPLE DON'T FUCKING THINK. AT ALL. ABOUT STUFF. ABOUT MARKETING STUFF. CORRECTLY.

[rodvonbon]

rob - I'm pretty sure they are the same and what your seeing is an optical illusion due to the one on the left being slightly turned sideways and held lower than the one on the right. I've got a buddy that works at Lakland, let me send him a text and see what he says. I may even try to get a couple necks from him while I'm at it :}

[DanHeron]

Cool idea, but usually if someone wants a smaller scale neck then they would probably prefer a smaller body too.. I would anyway.

Also the top half of the guys head, looks photoshopped onto the bottom half. ha

[rodvonbon]

I heard back from my buddy:

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Me - I saw something about Lakland making a short scale neck and that it will work on a full sized bass. Is that true??

Him - Yes sir. It's pretty fun.

Me - It intonates and everything? Wild! Perfect for guys like me that play a short bass.

Him - Want one?

Me - Does Lakland sell just the neck? How much?

Him - I think they go for $1000 for just a neck. If you want one I could probably do all the work off the clock and cut that in half.

Me - Tempting, yet still out of my league. Thanks though.

Him - Sorry. The cost of the raw neck is $250. I would make you one from scratch for $350. Essentially the same neck but hand made instead of CNC.

Me - Tempting again. Lemme think about it. Thanks dude.

Him - For what it's worth a Lakland that's $1000 is no better than a non Lakland that was made by the same person. Haha.

Me - Oh, I know.....

[DanHeron]

So.. the necks are $250?

[DanHeron]

I've been looking at pics... The lakland decade shorty looks sooo nice:

[kim]

LOVE the body.

[rodvonbon]

So.. the necks are $250?

I'm kind of confused too. I think, what he meant was the materials cost $250 and he would charge me another $100 to make it totaling $350. I could be wrong though and he could mean that a cnc production neck is $250, but he will hand build one for me for $350. Either way it's more than I want to spend.

[SKC Willie]

That is a wonderful idea.

I wish guitar companies would offer guitars (mainly Fender) would offer their guitars in a long scale and short scale just like they offer rosewood vs maple (on some guitars)

[Billy3000]

the bass player from another band around here has one of those basses, not with the short scale neck. It looks pretty cool, but I'm not really a fan of the sound. I've played a couple other lakland basses a p copy and a jazz copy and they both didn't sound or feel anywhere near as good as the new american standard fender versions, and they were also like $300 more expensive.

[kim]

i can imagine maybe for certain stuff the pickups might not have enough attitude and sound to 'refined'.

i think this is where wal basses are probably the most versatile basses you can find, ok they're fucking pricy, but they can go from country to doom and be perfectly suited. on record it's such a distinctive sound i can usually tell if it's a wal bass too, which makes it even more cool.