Neck dive is OVER

[exiledarchangel]

GENIOUS! I almost posted it on Gibson subforum

[Alanko]

I see your Mum is taking the divorce well.

[Dave W]

Another solution in search of a problem.

My SG Special (guitar) doesn't neck dive. My EB-0 doesn't neck dive.

[westen44]

My '64 Gibson EB-0 which I played for many years never had neck dive at all.  I never understood why people kept talking about EB-0 neck dive.  It made no sense to me.  That was one of the most well-balanced basses I've ever had.  Maybe other years/models are different.  My fairly new SG Standard also doesn't neck dive.  Yet I've been online at places where people claim for some reason that all SG-type basses neck dive.  What's going on, I really don't know.  Because the ones I play don't.

[morrow]

My SG has some dive. If I keep my forearm on the bass it stays , but if I was to lift both arms above my head like Gene … down she’d go.

Not a move I do often.

[doombass]

Nah, I would'nt want to walk onstage with a slanted wedgie.

[Dave W]

My SG has some dive. If I keep my forearm on the bass it stays , but if I was to lift both arms above my head like Gene … down she’d go.

Not a move I do often.

From everything you've posted about the music you play, I can't imagine you doing a Gene move. One Gene Simmons is more than enough.

[slinkp]

I see your Mum is taking the divorce well.

Quite well.  http://frantone.com/

[exiledarchangel]

To neck-dive deniers: sadly neck dive is a thing. I found this "out of the box" solution funny enough to post, that's all.

I see your Mum is taking the divorce well.

AFAIK we are not related.

[Pilgrim]

Quite well.  http://frantone.com/

Ya gotta like a lady who sells a pedal called a "Vibutron." 

[uwe]

The SG-Z, EB-4, EB-0L, EB-3L, SB-400 and -450 all neck-dive. Long scale SG shape basses inevitably do that unless you make the body fatter. I have one Custom Shop long scale SG shape bass where they gave the body almost Les Paul type dimensions. That counters neck dive, but it’s quite removed from the original petite SG body feel.

Does anybody agree with me that the SG has one of the few guitar shapes that looks better slung a little high rather than low?



Stone me, but I think Fran's clip-on idea is actually pretty nifty. And, man, it's a relief to see a woman just play electric guitar without any low neckline-, spaghetti straps- or theater layer thick makeup-click enhancements. No nose wrinkling either.

[westen44]

Since I was young, I've definitely preferred the SG slung a little high. 

[Dave W]

Ya gotta like a lady who sells a pedal called a "Vibutron."

Not to be confused with Woody Allen's Orgasmatron.

The SG-Z, EB-4, EB-0L, EB-3L, SB-400 and -450 all neck-dive. Long scale SG shape basses inevitably do that unless you make the body fatter. I have one Custom Shop long scale SG shape bass where they gave the body almost Les Paul type dimensions. That counters neck dive, but it’s quite removed from the original petite SG body feel.

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Stone me, but I think Fran's clip-on idea is actually pretty nifty. And, man, it's a relief to see a woman just play electric guitar without any low neckline-, spaghetti straps- or theater layer thick makeup-click enhancements. No nose wrinkling either.

That's true of the long scale versions. And I don't doubt that sometimes it happens with SG guitars and short scale basses (as with exiledarchangel's bass), but it's nowhere near as common as so many posts on various forums would have you believe.

Yeah, Fran's all right. It is nifty if you have a neck dive problem with any guitar or bass.

[westen44]

Not to be confused with Woody Allen's Orgasmatron.

That's true of the long scale versions. And I don't doubt that sometimes it happens with SG guitars and short scale basses (as with exiledarchangel's bass), but it's nowhere near as common as so many posts on various forums would have you believe.

Yeah, Fran's all right. It is nifty if you have a neck dive problem with any guitar or bass.

Those same various forums would also have you believe that all Gibson basses sound like mud and have headstocks that disintegrate  on contact with air. 

[Basvarken]

Not to be confused with Woody Allen's Orgasmatron.

Wasn't that in Barbarella?




The villain was called Duran Duran by the way