Hi folks,
I wanted to ask this question a long time ago, but I was too lazy to make a picture.
The problem is the following:
Back in 2005 I ordered SUB5 in the US and my friend transported it to Europe in his luggage dissasembled.
The neck was detached from the body and there was a little strip of plastic with two holes located in between the last two bolts of the neck joint:
When I received a bass I was too exicted to concentrate on little things, and I attached the neck with that plastic strip in between the neckplate and the body. Just like it's shown on the picture. It seemed to be kept where it originally was as I took it out of bubble wrap.
I heard that some guitar and bass owners always inspect the neck joint of a new instrument and remove and sand off all the factory stickers or excess paint left on the edges. It's also usefull to tighten the neck screws probably once a year to improve the sustain. Some custom guitar makers even add glue into the neck joint in addition to the standard neckplate to improve the sustain. That's why this strip of plastic took my attention.
So the question is - What was that strip of plastic really needed for? I cannot be sure about it's origin, but it is most likely factory produced and maybe I just placed it in the wrong spot or maybe it's not even needed at all?
Has anyone even spotted such thing while dissasembling SUB bass?
I wanted to ask this question a long time ago, but I was too lazy to make a picture.
The problem is the following:
Back in 2005 I ordered SUB5 in the US and my friend transported it to Europe in his luggage dissasembled.
The neck was detached from the body and there was a little strip of plastic with two holes located in between the last two bolts of the neck joint:
When I received a bass I was too exicted to concentrate on little things, and I attached the neck with that plastic strip in between the neckplate and the body. Just like it's shown on the picture. It seemed to be kept where it originally was as I took it out of bubble wrap.
I heard that some guitar and bass owners always inspect the neck joint of a new instrument and remove and sand off all the factory stickers or excess paint left on the edges. It's also usefull to tighten the neck screws probably once a year to improve the sustain. Some custom guitar makers even add glue into the neck joint in addition to the standard neckplate to improve the sustain. That's why this strip of plastic took my attention.
So the question is - What was that strip of plastic really needed for? I cannot be sure about it's origin, but it is most likely factory produced and maybe I just placed it in the wrong spot or maybe it's not even needed at all?
Has anyone even spotted such thing while dissasembling SUB bass?
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