This is my exact bass. I bet you’ll love it as much as I do!
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That’s not as pricey as I thought it would be for a neck-thru with the detailing on the wood. Very nice! I have the deep twilight glossy on my SRMS and love the look. I think the matte is even better. I didn’t pay that much less for a bolt-on. Very nice!!! (I said that didn’t I)
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I have the JMJ Mustang …! It’s neck feels so nice, goes well with flat wound strings.
Love it…! Only problem I’m having is trying to slap a little on it.
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I have the Ibanez SRSC 805… It’s great piece of playable art…!
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So… just wondering… are neck-throughs always more expensive?? I certainly haven’t done the research on this, but I think there are some high-end brands that don’t do neck-throughs at all, for sound/resonance reasons. Is that religion/superstition or is there something to it?
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I called the store and had them order one. They told me that the blue was not in stock so I’ll be getting the Butterscotch. It will take about a week to arrive and they’ll set it up and let me know when it’s ready. I don’t mind the wait because I’m on the road and won’t be back for another week.
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Awesome!
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Nice! I also tried to track down the blue one but no luck, seems they are much harder to come by. Let us know what you think once it arrives.
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I put it in the same category as string through body and high mass bridges. Lots of people swear they can hear a difference but it’s not something anybody can show makes a definitive, measurable improvement.
The things about this, I really like neck through body, string through body, and high mass bridges. Maybe they don’t matter, but I still like them.
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Well, there’s one very obvious difference between bolt-on and neck-through. A neck-through allows for easier access to the higher frets.
Everything else might not be as clear as some people want to believe…
There is even a scientific approach in this article to try and get an answer 
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I can’t say I actually know the answer to that. Unrelated to sound, there’s something about my engineering brain that experiences anxiety about an additional joint that all the tension on the instrument is attempting to pull apart. If I were doing the engineering I wouldn’t want the stress of figuring that out and would think it more elegant to string it like an archery bow. I don’t like putting in compensation structure for a weak point when it could be naturally avoided. It’s part of my philosophy of engineering elegance being the best solution if possible. I have no evidence in this case that it matters. In my fantasy brain I see those two pieces micro-vibrating against each other across the overlap because it cannot be infinitely tight. I also imagine a density and stiffness change across the length of the strings that interrupts even propagation of sound through the material from end to end. Realistically, given that it’s even arguable how much tone comes from the wood, this may be a subtlety not worth considering. Diving boards are neck thru if that’s any indication. Welcome to the anxiety of an engineer regardless of reality.
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Thanks for chiming in, @eric.kiser, @Krescht and @DaveT - it seems a lot is personal preference based on aesthetics, hunches and gut feeling… oh, and that keen engineering insight (if you happen to have that as well) 
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It could be that the discontinuity breaks up a resonance in the length of the neck. If I were a luthier I’d probably be the type that takes measurements of such things.
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And you’d probably come up with a solution that would revolutionize the bass/guitar business!!
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Thank you for the compliment! It feels especially good this week. I can be nostalgic about the times when I was paid to be innovative rather than estimating how long it will take to be replaced by a robot.
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I hear you, @DaveT - that is when you have to (or at least try to) flex your innovative muscles outside of the job!
I am a chemist, but have worked with engineers for many years - I see a problem as a nuisance; they see it as a challenge! I always appreciated that a lot 
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Will do.
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Oh cool! I was a chemistry major (analytical) and lasted about a year in the industry before realizing I liked academic chemistry more than working in the field, and so I went back to software 
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Hey, whaddyaknow, I am an analytical chemist 
Having now seriously derailed this thread, I am posting a pic of a Sandberg Nighthawk TM4 in copper matt:
There… back on track
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That makes three of us, @howard and @joergkutter . . . (I’m retired, though)
OK, back on track . . . that Sandberg is a very pretty color! 
Cheers, Joe
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