Beat to death?... the issue of necks and thickness

henry5 · Post by **henry5** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 12:34 pm

Quote -"It's the lamination; when you laminate wood, the joint adds
stiffness."

Oh absolutely. There are stiffer woods to use as a laminate though...or you could just laminate more maple (I believe there are several laminates in the current necks, but oriented differently). As for the look, well, it's a matter of taste I guess...

ricosound · Post by **ricosound** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 6:37 am

The stripe on a Fender is not to add stiffness, but is used to fill the truss rod routing.

henry5 · Post by **henry5** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 7:02 am

Yup, sure is....

ali_b · Post by **ali_b** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 10:29 am

the skunk stripe is shedua not walnut,
stiffer perhaps?

throw_this_away · Post by **throw_this_away** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 10:46 am

I would still like to see a bass with a skunk stripe AND walnut wings (4002's were like that were they not?). I would kill for one of those I think...

morrow · Post by **morrow** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 11:59 am

Bruce at Gigstreet sold a mapleglow 4002 last year , John. It was in nice condition. I kick myself for not picking it up ...I had no idea that they were as rare as they are. I was just so used to seeing Blair's fretless 4002 all the time.

I think he was looking for $1500 at the time but he e-bayed it and I think it went down south.

throw_this_away · Post by **throw_this_away** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 12:01 pm

Burn... that would have been a great price.

morrow · Post by **morrow** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 12:20 pm

That seems to be his general " Ric in good shape" price. There was a brown Autumglow ( I think it was before the monte brown colour of the year) that he sold about a year before that.

It was gorgeous but it went on e-bay before I could think of trying to get it. At the time I had it on my mind that I was going to get an older fireglo... eventually I did find one.

He also had a pretty beat up jetglo 4000 that went for around twelve. I think that one is still around town but I don't know who has it.

In the old days you used to see them hanging at Musicstop so there's more of them around than you might think.