Mr

[lea Eric]

Hi all

I need a replacement  neck  for  my ibanez RS924 roadster bass. 

Any thoughts welcome 

Thank you 

[Sean]

I think a better thread title would help loads 😉

[Baloney Balderdash]

20 minutes ago, Sean said:

I think a better thread title would help loads 😉

I admit when I saw the thread tittle my brain automatically filled in the blanks:

 

[Gank Bass]

20 hours ago, lea Eric said:

Hi all

I need a replacement  neck  for  my ibanez RS924 roadster bass. 

Any thoughts welcome 

Thank you 

If you have some accurate measurements of the neck pocket you may find a suitable "paddle" neck you could reshape or alternatively scour eBay, there's a few stores that part out vintage instruments. Depending on the condition it might be worth repairing? 

[Bassassin]

On 14/10/2025 at 23:27, lea Eric said:

Hi all

I need a replacement  neck  for  my ibanez RS924 roadster bass. 

Any thoughts welcome 

Thank you 

 

I would think any full-scale 24-fret neck with (what I assume is) standard Fender heel shape/dimensions could be made to fit. Unless you can find a random 80s Ibby neck with the correct proportions (which is wildly unlikely) you'll have to improvise/do some modding, or at least shimming to make it work.

 

Is the original neck definitely unsalvageable?

 

And do change the thread title!

[LeftyJ]

I just came across your status update and replied there, but I'll repeat it here too (and I'll share the pic you posted there): 

 

 

For what it's worth, this doesn't appear to be a factory fretless (RS940) but a defretted RS924. A 940 would have no fretlines, and only tiny dot inlays near the edge of the fingerboard where the fretlines would have been, rather than inbetween fretlines. Maybe this helps lower the boundaries to have this neck refretted instead . Being a lacquered fingerboard there will be some extra work involved to do a tidy and invisible job. These are fabulous basses, I really enjoyed mine a lot when I had it, so definitely worth the effort! It was prohibitively heavy though, and nowadays I favour a narrower nut width.

[Bassassin]

That is definitely a defretted RS924, and the OP should absolutely get it refretted. These are extraordinarily good basses (if a bit of a boat anchor!) and increasingly rare - as I implied in my earlier post, you're not realistically going to pick up a replacement neck for it anywhere on Planet Earth - they're getting on 45 years old & were only made for a couple of years before the Roadstar IIs were introduced. I own one of these, old MIJ basses are sort of my thing, and I know of what I speak. And if I'm wrong, please point me in the direction of a replacement blueburst neck for my irreparably twisted 1984 Aria RSB Deluxe II - cheers!

 

RS924s are also worth a bob or two in an increasingly collector-oriented market - as it's not factory fretless, returning this to standard would potentially improve its potential resale value.

[JPJ]

Replacing a 924 or 940 neck is going to be a challenge given that they are one of the best proportioned necks I’ve ever played. I’ve owned my factory fretless RS940TV since 1982 and it will have to be prised out of my cold dead hands.