Neck thrus

[smavridis]

post yours!

 

[JaySwear]

i've had a few, but i'm really not a fan  ???  not sure why. upper fret access is better, depending on who you ask the sustain is better, but i always felt like a good bolt on was just plain powerful

 

[smavridis]

i just have a thing for neck thrus. which did you have?

 

[mayfly]

all my Rickenbackers are neck throughs.  Some of them with two octave necks too. 

All designed in the 50's.  Ahead of their time, Rick.

 

[JaySwear]

i had a Gibson SG Special, and a PRS SE Soapbar II, but always prefered bolt ons.

i've had an Ibanez GAX70, Ibanez SA160QM, Peavey Wolfgang Standard, Ibanez RGA121, Ibanez RGR521, Ibanez RG570 all with bolt on necks.

and honestly, with a gibson (LP especially) the upper fret access isn't really helped by it being a neck through anyway  :icon_biggrin:  the neck joins at the 16th or 17th fret anyway.

 

[tfarny]

Jay, those aren't neck throughs, they are set necks. A neck through is where the neck and the main body are all the same piece of wood.

 

[m4rk0]

I always wanted a nice japanese neck through! preferably a Matsumoko!
especially the Westone's are nice...the Thunder, Spectrum FX, Pantera

 

[OzziePete]

I HAD a Gibson Firebird that was a neck thru. White Firebird V, chrome hardware. No photos of it unfortunately.

With the mini humbuckers that thing could sing - hell, it even made me sound good!

One day I got out a Rat Pedal I owned at the time, dialled up mayhem on the Fender Deville 4 x 10 and selected the bridge pickup and presto! "Hey Hey My My" tone all over the place.

Thanx to a tax bill some years ago I had to sell it fast to meet the bill on time. The guy I sold it to was a bit shifty too. He saw the original Rat Pedal in the room, said he wouldn't buy the Firebird without the pedal ,so I had to let both go for the price I was asking for the Firebird. :sad:

Regretted the sale of that guitar from day 1. But in hindsight the design of that Firebird was a bit flawed. It was neck heavy, and the way the head stuck out from the body you had to be careful not to knock the head against a wall if it was strapped on. And yes, I now know how much an original Rat Pedal is worth. Take it as lesson learnt.... :tard:

I think if I get another neck thru I'd go for a Yamaha SG2000. More balanced design, and probably better made than any production Gibson.

 

[JaySwear]

neck-thrus, set necks, i always think of them as the same thing haha sorry  :doh:

although, yeah, those would both be set necks. both too cheap to be neck thrus.

but i still prefer a bolt on. can't really explain why. i think part of it is the ability to change a body or neck if i wanted. even though i never would on pretty much any of the guitars i had. but i like to think if something awful happened and i broke a neck or put a huge gouge in a body i could replace it

 

[DocNrock]

Jackson USA SL2H, and an Ibanez Prestige Bass.

At one time, I had a Kramer USA Stagemaster, but idiotically sold it.  :doh:

 

[SrDeMaFp]

I've only owned 1 neck-thru (and still do own it). It's a BC Rich Assassin Classic DLX. Played great, felt great but, the pups were lacking so, in came an SH-6 for the neck and an X2N in the bridge. I could kill small animals with this fudging thing now. :headbang:

 

[dbw]

But in hindsight the design of that Firebird was a bit flawed...the way the head stuck out from the body you had to be careful not to knock the head against a wall if it was strapped on.

Dude this is true of EVERY guitar.

 

[OzziePete]

But in hindsight the design of that Firebird was a bit flawed...the way the head stuck out from the body you had to be careful not to knock the head against a wall if it was strapped on.

Dude this is true of EVERY guitar.

I wasn't as articulate in my description as I should have been...lol!

It was just that the Firebird, when strapped on and standing/walking with it, did stick out the head of the neck, more so than other guitars that I've had. The design wasn't as balanced as I had hoped it would be. Sitting down with it & it felt fantastic.

A Tele or a Strat strap on very well, and also very good when sitting down (except for maybe the non contoured body of the Tele which can be a bit of push under the ribs).

 

[TonyFlyingSquirrel]

Just my TFS6.