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 11 hours ago by Geek99

[Obrienp]

I am so tempted to buy another Chinese neck of fleaBay but at the moment I can’t play due to bursitis in my left elbow, so I am putting it off to see if I recover. I turn 70 shortly so recovery is not a given: arthritis seems to be getting its claws into me.

 

If/when I am ready to jump, it’s going to be a fretless jazz. Bizarrely these seem to sell for about £20 more than the fretted ones, so it would be somewhere around £110. Prior to the bursitis, I had been enjoying playing my Sire U5 fretless shortie and was wondering whether I could manage a full scale fretless but didn’t want to lash out on a new bass (like a Sire P7). I have a couple of bitsas I have put together, so one would provide the body.

 

I have to say that putting these basses together is very addictive and with the quality of these “cheap” necks, it can be done for less than the price of a Squier Affinity but with much better hardware. Is this an addiction?

[ghostwheel]

6 hours ago, Obrienp said:

Is this an addiction?

It may jolly well be.

I've bought two Chinese fretless necks of eBay thus far. They are very well built. The only issue, aside of side dots placed where they would be on a fretted one, with the first (with coated maple fingerboard) was its width at the nut (38mm). The second one was more of a hit than I expected. Although described as having a rosewood fingerboard, it's actually got an ebony one. At least, it looks and feels like ebony. Love it.

As for the first one, I'd love to ship it free of charge should anyone here need one. The screw holes at the heel are drilled to fit into a Sire P7.