Neck construction/reinforcements

[uOpt]

I wanted to do a nice Precision 51 style build, but it turned out to be pretty frustrating. The neck makers don't offer you one-piece maple easily. Most insist on putting in double truss rods and graphite or steel reinforcement bars.

That makes me wonder: my Stingray has pretty much perfect construction. The truss rod, whatever it is, with it's adjustment at the heel but adjustable from the front is genius. Whatever reinforcements are inside the neck obviously don't do any damage to the sound.

So I gotta ask: is it public knowledge what kind of construction is behind the MM necks? Since they have one-piece maple I guess MM gets by without skyscraper class rods, unless they are in the truss rod slot.

 

[kamakazee]

This might help some: How To Build Ernie Ball Music Man Guitars & Basses - YouTube

 

[uOpt]

I need that buffing machine

Didn't have any specifics on reinforcements, though.

 

[kamakazee]

Well, you can always saw one of yours in half.

 

[tbonesullivan]

I like how EBMM does their necks. I wonder if having the glue joint between the fretboard and neck helps with the stability of the neck, even though they are from the same piece of wood.

 

[uOpt]

Well, you can always saw one of yours in half.

What I need is a decent X-ray and not one of those wimpy one the dentist uses.

 

[keko]

I like how EBMM does their necks. I wonder if having the glue joint between the fretboard and neck helps with the stability of the neck, even though they are from the same piece of wood.

+1

 

[Golem]

That glue joint hasta be there ... thaz how the truss rod
sneaks in. Marketing trend is that if you have graphite
in your neck, you brag about it. Steel is very rare in the
entire industy [maybe only Warwicks ?]. The thing that
really convinces me that EB bass neck are all-wood is
that they have little or no delayed response to tweaking
the truss rods. You get the expected result immediately
with minimal, or zero, increase beyond that result over
the next several or dozen hours. Tweaking the relief on
a graphite loaded neck means aiming at a moving target
and applying a lotta windage.