Chunky 25.5 necks

ekwatts · Post by **ekwatts** » Mon Mar 14, 2011 2:37 pm

Fran wrote:
Hurb wrote:I don't understand how a thicker neck would stop the floppiness?
I could'nt fully understand the reason behind this either but i put a thread up about down tuning elsewhere and someone came up with the theory: The less string tension the more stable the neck needs to be because the actual string tension contributes to the stability. In feel at least. Which makes sense.

This sounds right to me.

And yeah, I dunno about Dano baritones. They're not like the majority of baritones out there with just a slightly longer scale length, like the 27" Jaguar Baritone Special that came out a few years ago. They're proper 30" six string basses. You can string them up in A or B but it's not really a proper guitar at that point as far as I'm concerned. You're halfway between bass and guitar, whereas you want to be properly in the guitar camp, just tuned down to bowel-threatening levels and it's not really the same sort of thing.

Fran · Post by **Fran** » Mon Mar 14, 2011 3:56 pm

This is it.
I'm a bit pissed off i've got half a dozen guitars i can't use as well to be honest.

endsjustifymeans · Post by **endsjustifymeans** » Mon Mar 14, 2011 8:37 pm

serfx wrote:
endsjustifymeans wrote:The Squire '51 neck was a personal favorite.
slightly off topic, but i find it too chunky for me.. its the thing i like least about the guitar.

so.. it would be perfect for say.. Aen

It's funny that guitar practical lived in Aen-standard.

serfx · Post by **serfx** » Mon Mar 14, 2011 8:45 pm

endsjustifymeans wrote:
serfx wrote:
endsjustifymeans wrote:The Squire '51 neck was a personal favorite.
slightly off topic, but i find it too chunky for me.. its the thing i like least about the guitar.

so.. it would be perfect for say.. Aen
It's funny that guitar practical lived in Aen-standard.

it still does. i've made it my guitar for Serf X .. when i don't feel like playing bass.

Sloan · Post by **Sloan** » Mon Mar 14, 2011 8:51 pm

shecters have kinda chunky necks and are made in 25.5 scale pretty much for metal d00dz and chix.

Fran · Post by **Fran** » Mon Mar 14, 2011 10:38 pm

Sloan wrote:shecters have kinda chunky necks and are made in 25.5 scale pretty much for metal d00dz and chix.

I gotta say the Mockingbird held up great tonight. Changed the whole experience, i was srsly close to jacking last week...

Sloan · Post by **Sloan** » Mon Mar 14, 2011 10:48 pm

ahh, you were looking for just a neck.

Fran · Post by **Fran** » Mon Mar 14, 2011 10:56 pm

I was because i wanted to use at least one of my Fenders. But i cant be arsed with messing around swapping necks and shit and also remembered my NJ Mock neck is chunky, 25.5 scale.
Looks like living with neck dive for now...

Sloan · Post by **Sloan** » Tue Mar 15, 2011 5:51 am

just move that strap button eh?!

lorez · Post by **lorez** » Tue Mar 15, 2011 9:55 am

johnnyseven wrote:My B&B Jazzmaster has a pretty thick neck, a lot thicker than by regular JM - not sure how this compares on the overall neck thickness scale though.

my 71 B&B JM has the chunkiest neck I've played, a lot deeper and wider, the feel is different to a lot of gibson style necks due to the radius difference.