The glue amount of this type of necks

[Cederick]

I like how many people are like "the glue in set and neckthrough necks take away tone and sustain" and stuff like that...

But I have never seen anyone commenting the glue amount that must be used for this kind of necks:

Also that 2 or 3 piece bodies would be "worse" than a 1 piece body...

This type of necks (especially for many basses) comes as neck through and that means the body and necks is together like 8 pieces or something.

How come?!  :dontknow:

 

[dmraco]

Looks...stability.  Lots of reasons.

The debate on set necks, neck thru, and bolt ons rage on.  I however was under impression that a neck thru offers the best sustain.  That being said I seriously doubt a human ear can notice the difference, all other things considered equal.  I doubt even more that the glue on a multi piece neck makes a bit of difference.

You are correct...lots of basses come in multi ply necks.  I think it may have originated in stability.  Lots of pieces of wood, with different grain patterns and orientation that are glued together are stronger and more rigid than a one piece neck of similar dimensions.  You usually see these necks with a combo of maple and other exotics.  My sons bass has a wrenge and bubinga 5 piece neck.  I have seen carbon fiber and graphite necks that may be stronger but that is a completely different animal.

 

[Cederick]

I mean for me personally I don't care AT ALL for milliseconds difference in sustain, that is completely uninteresting.
If a guitar rings out enough for a few seconds I'm happy, if it's dead in one second I wouldn't wanna have that guitar.

Because... I mean when you play songs you often pick the strings often enough to not being able to hear the sustain anyway. Maybe if you play some drone metal shit, but that's often buried in so much distortion, reverb and feedback so it shouldn't matter anyway hahaha

 

[Jumble Jumble]

Yeah, makes me laugh. People obsess over sustain and then practice for hours at playing thirty notes per second.

 

[Patrick from Davis]

The actual amount of glue is minimal, most of it gets pressed out when the pieces are clamped together.  My guess is that there are good and bad examples of all three of the types of joints listed.  Some is the design, and some are just plain lemons, and some were put together when the stars were in the right spot and are magical.  Most are somewhere in between.
Patrick