Anyone bought a cheap (Chinese) neck off eBay?

[kodiakblair]

4 minutes ago, NancyJohnson said:

 

Umm, no.

Glad to hear that, thought my memory was failing me 🙂

[NancyJohnson]

8 hours ago, kodiakblair said:

Glad to hear that, thought my memory was failing me 🙂

 

Have you been on the sauce?

[Geek99]

On 04/05/2025 at 09:41, NancyJohnson said:

It's quite odd, but just the change in one component (albeit a major one) and the bass is so much more appealing to me.

 

Been able to get the action down very low (maybe 2mm at the octave), much lower than the old neck, and acoustically it just sounds more resonant.

 

While I don't need any more basses, I genuinely find joy from doing stuff like this.  I can't believe that what I've done here is realistically that different from what (I can't remember their name) Limelight etc are doing, by sourcing and selling on cobbled together kit.  [Edit: I notice that all the Limelight stuff is now showing as Prices On Application on the classic and cool guitars site.]

 

My wife is now going on about me starting up something to earn a bit of £££ as I slip into an early retirement.  

 

😂

You should. TBF they do put a bit of effort into relicing that you haven’t 

good result though 

[NancyJohnson]

42 minutes ago, Geek99 said:

You should. TBF they do put a bit of effort into relicing that you haven’t 

good result though 

 

Pretty much all the damage on the bass has been done on purpose every time it leaves the house; there's little effort involved in wrecking the visual aesthetic of the body.

[kodiakblair]

1 hour ago, NancyJohnson said:

 

Have you been on the sauce?

Sadly no.

 

13 year clean and sober, only excuse I have for the myriad of mistakes I make daily is I'm thick 😬

[Geek99]

1 hour ago, NancyJohnson said:

 

Pretty much all the damage on the bass has been done on purpose every time it leaves the house; there's little effort involved in wrecking the visual aesthetic of the body.

I do get that the relic job alone isn’t worth the extra (not least as you’re doing it deliberately) 

 

edit - I hadn’t realised that this is your battered aria that I’ve seen before 

Edited 1 hour ago by Geek99