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Anyone know what the Neck Radius of is on a Silver Series Squier P Bass?


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All in the title really!  I've been spoiling (as in lavishing affection, not wrecking!) my Squier Silver Series MIJ P bass to see whether I can get to "love" it ... and it's definitely getting there.  I've a spare Seymour Duncan SPB 1 pick-up so I've added that, got a new wiring loom from Kiogon - and that has made a big difference  (250 Ohm pots).  I've sorted out a bit of a hum (which I seemed to add with the Pick-up!) and it's now silent and, just for fun put some brass saddle into the original bridge.   It now sounds very nice, but I can't work out the neck - on the one hand it's nice and relatively small for a P, but it feels very different "in the hand" to my old P Bass , my newer Sandberg (also a 40mm neck),  and, unsurprisingly my PJ Squier.   So I'm thinking it might well have a 7.25inch radius neck rather than the 14 and 9.5 that I've been used to.   Anyone know the radius or where I can find it?

 

Cheers

Ian 

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It's easy to make some gauges and then you'l definitely l know what it is:

 

Improvise a compass (piece of string and pencil or similar), draw arcs of required radius on to some paper or card (these lines only have to be the width of the fretboard), cut out each one and there you go.

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I've made a template!

And "Yes" it's 7.5 inch 

So, (my) Squier Silver Series P Bass from 1992/3 would appear to have a 7.5inch neck radius - I'm guessing its the same all the way up/down the fingerboard i.e. its not a compound radius.

 

So that's possibly why it feels a bit odd compared to my other basses! 

 

Cheers Everyone - mystery solved!

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