Corvette neck replacement question

Dragonlord

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Hello, I've got a 2001 passive Corvette std with ovangkol neck and a 1999 active Corvette std with wenge neck. I am thinking of swaping the necks. Is that safe/easy?
Thanks
 
Hi, as long as you are careful and don't force anything it shouldn't be dangerous to try. However, the margins are very small, ollie said that it's around 1/10 mm on each instrument.
 
thats very little room to play with,ya mean .1 MM mats?thats a very close tolerance for wood but it is warwick were talking here so it doesnt surprise me, :wink: I actually read somewhere(a company that ships basses in 2 pieces)that "a sheet of A4 paper will fill any gap & make a good tight fit"whatta tone killing joke. :roll:
 
Mr Rabble said:
You could also swap electronics, leaving the necks where they are!
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Well, I'm only gonna keep one of them, and I like the wenge neck and the body of my passive (it was my first serious bass, I'm attached to it!)
 
Just in case anyone is interested: I started the operation this afternoon, so far so good! I've already swapped the necks, re-stringed the basses and now I'm setting them up... never done this before so it's taking longer than normal, but it's a fun and extremely interesting experience. I also think I'll be doing my own setups from now on... cheers to those who have answered to this topic!
 
Great news that the swap was successful, let us know the result when you're finished with the set up / mats
 
Well, I noticed this morning that, while the one neck seems to fit well, the other one leaves a gap on the lower side, about a paper wide, although it doesn't move. Should I unscrew it and put a piece of paper there to keep it tighter or something?
 
Does it feel rock solid? Does it have any lateral movement at all. I'd have thought that a sheet of paper will not make much difference if the screws are done up tight.

I once fitted a status graphite neck to a Fender P-bass. The neck was designed for a J-bass, as I preferred the profile. To be honest, you could probably drive a bus through the gap, but it was solid, didn't move, and sounded fine. I think the gaps were more of a cosmetic thing!

Having said that, I can't speak for the Warwick approach. Maybe if they had a small gap in a new bass it wouldn't even leave the factory (I might be willing to buy some "seconds" though)
 
No, it feels rock solid, don't think it's really a problem. I had just read on another forum about putting a piece of paper if there is a gap and I thought I'd ask to see if I must do it.
 
Personally, I wouldn't bother. Paper is not a very strong substance. I heard something similar about sandpaper - tried that in my "gap"... it fell out!
 
Yo Steve,

I've got small nocturnal rodents living in the gaps where your old Status neck joins the body of my Jazz :lol:

BTW new MM Sterling arrives tommorow.....MM and Warwick in the same practice room, heaven
 
Nice to know the Jazzbasstard fretless is still going strong. Enjoy the Sterling!

Still waiting for the $$ - nearly 8 weeks now - and going away for a few days soon - bound to arrive while I'm away. The guitarist in my current band has just ordered a PRS Santana - made me feel better about spending the money!
 
:D Bet your $$ can floor his PRS!

BTW, noticed from an earlier thread that you 'do a bit' of Free. Is that the main reason for the fretless (Bad Co. Feel like makin' love)? You'll have to let me know when you're in the Sheffield area - sick of listening to sub standard versions of Wishing Well/Fire and Water etc.
 
There are two main reasons I play fretless-

1 - because I can... got on with it quite well right from the off (not that I don't benefit from a bit of intonation practice)

2 - the first two fingers of my left hand are a bit arthriticky (Mrs SJ refers to them as my "whizzy fingers" - but we won't go into that) - the fretless is actually very easy to play in the physical sense - light flatwound strings, low action etc - I can almost stroke the notes out (we won't go into that either). By comparison, my fretted P-bass was like wrestling with a log

I can play it "straight", or make it sound more fretlessy - some of the slides work great with the Free stuff

We play quite a bit of less well known Free songs (less well known to me, anyway) - but we had a Free fan at the last gig who was well pleased. I'm well up for the solo from "Mr Big", but we're waiting for the drummer to catch up with us on that one! He's not around much - so we're checking out a new one tonight (drummers - don't you just love them?)

Will let you know if we get to the Sheffield area - but we tend to be quite local to Huddersfield!

Cheers
SJ
 
I hear alot of references of the "Mr. Big" solo. Is Mr. Big the name of the solo?. What would I search for to download it?
 
If you want to have a go at working it out - I'd personally recommend a live version - I've got one recorded at Sunderland (I think) from a Free Greatest Hits CD - it's a bit shorter and much funkier - or otherwise just get the feel for it and go for it in your own style (or a bit of both)!

Is this where I make the joke about it taking a lot of practice to make it sound spontaneous? :D
 
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