Kramer Bass with no neck heel

[W1_Pro]

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This is a bit of a strange one, looking at the heel of the neck, normally, these are a standard squared off heel (well, on mine it is anyway). This looks like someone has removed the heel for some reason...very weird....

[alyctes]

There seems to be some damage on the body above the heel.  Possibly related?

It would be interesting to see it with the neck off.

 

Edited 3 hours ago by alyctes

[alyctes]

I'm going to stick my neck out (ha!) and compare it with this one...

My guess is that they changed the design at some point.

Equally, I may have entirely the wrong end of the stick.

 

[briansbrew]

Mine up close 

 

[floFC]

I have never seen a 450B like that either. Mine has the chunky heel also.

@alyctes is probably right, and the design change (maybe when they started making the DMZ so they can use the same necks).

On that particular bass though, there is a  lot of damage to the body right where it joins the neck, indeed. It may or may not be related. The neck plate is also much shorter than on mine (again like @briansbrew DMZ).