I have a gedo fully carved five string with high C, the neck is not chunky (despite being 6ft I have tiny hands and struggle on six string basses but this is fine) the G string was hard to bow but my local string luthier did an excellent job on reshaping the bridge and now it bows fine, I mainly use it for jazz and having the high C helps so much especially with my aforementioned little hands. Gedo dont currently have any five strings in stock.