Yeah neck through is usually heavier than bolt on version. Then again my Lignum neck through Fretless is only 7.5 lbs.
Speaking of material and tone. There’s no denying that on a Fretless’s fingerboard each material sounds different and that’s is an in your face difference. Oddly enough, my favorites are composite like Richlite, Ebonel and super (CA) glue.
That’s what I’m worried about too. If weather causes a misalignment or god forbid a warp, it’s gonna be a disaster.
Sorry if I muddied the waters - I didn’t read it at all facetious.
I took it as genuine. I was solidifying our collective agreement and handing us trophies as I also added the “hear with the eyes” bit because that’s been a saying of mine ever since being on the professional touring circuit.
We had some similar ideas and comments come up when people were asking about the real, meaningful differences between the different fender lines - squier, made-in-mexico, made-in-japan, made-in-usa, custom shop.
I love the wine experiment idea.
same team! same team!
Right on man! I wound up going down the rabbit hole a little bit on some of the other wine experiments that were done - some interesting reading!
*fist bump*
For a good neck-through bass, which price level are we talking about, as a minimum?
Well Schecter can do it at pretty crazy low price of around $800 your Cort is pretty sweet. I would not think twice about it, it would be pretty awesome.
Everything does effect everything, same in the saxophone world.
The part below the headline that folks generally get lost in is - by how much, and does it matter.
Go on a sax forum and search for the tone debate on color of lacquer sprayed on the brass horn - it is endless.
So yes everything matters, including the neck attachment type.
To me, as beginners enter this elevated pallet of tone ‘education’ thing, focusing on big tone shapers first and smaller tone shapers last, as your pallet improves is more important to me.
Strings/pickups/electronics - then everything else.
The PRS Kingfisher is just over $1000 new. I have one and it is a sweet bass. Definitely heavy though. Mine is an older brown one with beautiful wood grain. The new blue ones are nice looking too.
I had an ESP neck-through and it sounds GREAT (cause, Humbuckers!)! Should be around 800-1000€ new. I sold it for 400€ - in mint condition!
We’re bass players, we don’t really worry about such things… that’s for the guitarists to fight over 