Neck blanks on FleaBay

drbassman · March 27, 2008, 06:24:24 AM

Quote from: Barklessdog on March 27, 2008, 05:47:13 AM
For $60 how can you go wrong ?

Precisely!

EvilLordJuju · March 27, 2008, 09:37:19 AM

Quote from: Bass VI on March 26, 2008, 08:49:04 PM

You've done a really good job on that Scott - looking very smooth!

gweimer · March 27, 2008, 11:39:10 AM

I was thinking that this might be cool for the body
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=300209838362&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT&ih=020

I've seen these up before. They usually go for about $120. This one is one of the nicest I've seen. I could use the Gibson neck, the clone body, a Dark Star, and one of the few bridges I have laying around. Maybe the Schaller.

Barklessdog · March 27, 2008, 11:42:24 AM

The neck pocket does not look like it's set up for a set neck?

I don't think it work work as is?

gweimer · March 27, 2008, 12:53:33 PM

My luthier is pretty good. He's built a few harp guitars in his day. He's also done some very nice conversions of acoustic electrics to make a single-cutaway where there was none before.

drbassman · March 27, 2008, 02:54:23 PM

Quote from: gweimer on March 27, 2008, 12:53:33 PM
My luthier is pretty good. He's built a few harp guitars in his day. He's also done some very nice conversions of acoustic electrics to make a single-cutaway where there was none before.

Yep, you could add some maple to the neck and rerout it to fit the Fender pocket on the bass body. It's very doable.

Bass VI · March 27, 2008, 03:01:43 PM

Quote from: drbassman on March 27, 2008, 02:54:23 PM
Yep, you could add some maple to the neck and rerout it to fit the Fender pocket on the bass body. It's very doable.

I concurr Dr.

Or redo the neck pocket to do a set neck, still very doable.

marcnorth · March 27, 2008, 05:31:22 PM

I was thinking of trying to put a medium scale fretboard on one of these.
Anyone think it would work?

Dave W · March 27, 2008, 07:18:47 PM

Sure that would work if you're making your own body or working with an undrilled, unrouted body. Assuming the board would cover the same distance on the neck (you've got 24" nut to end), it would need to have 2 more frets than the 20-fret 34" scale it was designed for. A 32" scale is 23.02" from the nut to the 22nd fret, a 34" scale is 23.29" from the nut to the 20th. You'd just have about 1/4" more of open fretboard beyond the last fret.

The only problem would be if you planned to use an existing body drilled and routed for a 34" scale. You'd have to move the bridge forward 2" and if the pickup locations were routed, then that would change their position relative to the scale length. Big problem if there was a bridge pickup route. The bridge might have to be moved almost on top of the pickup rout.

Hope that makes sense.

drbassman · March 28, 2008, 06:03:24 AM

Quote from: marcnorth on March 27, 2008, 05:31:22 PM
I was thinking of trying to put a medium scale fretboard on one of these.
Anyone think it would work?

I haven't been down to measure, but it would be doable, however, you'd probably have to do as Dave suggests depending on bridge alignment (assuming you have an existing body with mounted bridge) or trim some off the end of the neck. There's a little room for that but you wouldn't want to lose 2" off the existing heel in my estimation. It is not impossible, in fact it's easy enough, to take a maple neck, lope off some of the heel and add more maple to recreate a different heel configuration to accomodate a 32" fretboard.

In fact, I once had a neck thru design neck all built and it was 5/16" too narrow for the bridge I had selected for it (I got the bridge after I built the neck!). Yikes, was I screwed! Sooooooooooo, I removed the fretboard, planed a channel up both sides of the neck, glued in a maple strip on each side, hand planed and sanded it to size, added the fretboard back and had a usable neck that was 5/16" wider. I know, I could have gotten another bridge easier, but I had made my mind up and I wasn't going to do that.

After finishing, you can't even see the seams or wood that I added. With wood, almost anything is possible!

marcnorth · March 28, 2008, 10:16:49 AM

Thanks for the answer.
I figured it would work if the body wasn't already drilled for the bridge. The body I have in mind right now is just a one piece mahogany blank I have. I have 2 of them sitting in my garage just waiting to be used for something. I may just have to pick up one of those neck blanks.

drbassman · March 28, 2008, 10:38:16 AM

Quote from: marcnorth on March 28, 2008, 10:16:49 AM
Thanks for the answer.
I figured it would work if the body wasn't already drilled for the bridge. The body I have in mind right now is just a one piece mahogany blank I have. I have 2 of them sitting in my garage just waiting to be used for something. I may just have to pick up one of those neck blanks.

With a virgin body blank, you could easily use this neck for either 32 or 34" scales. You probably would only need to trim a little off the end with wrecking the heel at all. I'll post detailed pics for you when I get home from work.

drbassman · March 28, 2008, 07:03:39 PM

As promised..........

Dave W · March 28, 2008, 10:08:17 PM

Is this one of the same greatdealz necks that he's selling now?

drbassman · March 29, 2008, 04:12:50 AM

Quote from: Dave W on March 28, 2008, 10:08:17 PM
Is this one of the same greatdealz necks that he's selling now?

Yes, same one from greatdealz. They are nice. I bought one and liked it so much I got another just to have it. You never know when you'll need a neck and I couldn't build one from scratch for this price!