Strat Body w/Bass6 neck?

[ddd]

I had a idea this morning that I think might be pretty cool. Would it be possible to put a Bass6 neck on a Strat body? (with custom bridge positioning if necessary)  I want to do this so I can to mix and match my collection of Strat pickguards/pickups onto a Bass6 neck/body...

I did some quick math and I think it would work. The Bass6 neck is 24 frets and 30 inch scale, so the distance from the 24th fret to the bridge should be about 7.5 inches (25% of 30"), right? If so, this is pretty close to the standard strat bridge position - maybe about 3/8th inch further back? I probably wouldn't use a Strat tremolo... I'd probably go fixed... or maybe the jag/jazzmaster if I could still fit a standard strat pickguard in there...

What do you think? Thanks for any input!

 

[AprioriMark]

Unless I'm mistaken, all scale length math aside, the neck pockets are not the same size.

-Mark

 

[line6man]

If so, this is pretty close to the standard strat bridge position - maybe about 3/8th inch further back?

"Pretty close" is very different from "exactly." You need to be sure your saddles are in precisely the right places if you expect to intonate properly. 3/8" is pretty far off.

 

[Justinginn]

Find the bridge with the longest saddle travel?  :dontknow:

 

[stubhead]

I'm pretty sure he means to have a designated "Bass6 body" with the correct bridge placement, he just want to be able to swap pickguard assemblies w/pickups in and out of that body. You could have one pickguard with 3 singles, one with 2 humbuckers, one with EMG's etc - it's fairly common out there in the real world, unlike here - where everyone just build a whole 'nother guitar to try a new pickup! :laughing3:

 

[ddd]

It does look like the neck pocket is longer on the Bass6 bodies...and the neck-screw holes wouldn't line up (they'd have to be custom too) -- but I'm pretty sure warmoth could do it -- based on what I've seen in the gallery, they can do just about anything.  :icon_smile:

Thanks