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Location: Braman, OK | I dunno why, but that 5-piece neck just seems to exude quality. Is it just me? I mean, when I'm perusing the 'Bay, I tend to skip right past anything without the stripe.
Am I just being weird? :confused: |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | I feel the same way. That's one of the reasons I always preferred the Adamas II over the original Adamas. Dave |
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Location: Warren,Pa. | Generally, the 5 pc. neck denotes a USA item. It's what's INSIDE that really counts. USA 2 pc. necks have the same insides. It's the 1 pc. necks that denote imports. Those are made of a cheaper, less stable wood and have nothing inside to give them the strength and long-term stability that the USA necks have. But the 5 pc. necks do have the biggest cool factor. I really like the Adamas necks with the Ebony center. Wasn't there a Collectors' with a Purpleheart center or something like that? |
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Location: Canton (Detroit), MI | My Adamas Melissa Etheridge 12-string has the walnut neck without the stripe and I miss it. I thought for a while that it was a "cheaper" neck (which it ISN'T) because it didn't have it.
My favorite "skunk stripe" is on my 2002 Collectors. Now THAT is a nice fat 5-piece neck stripe!!!
Nothing like a visual stripe....I'm about to buy myself a solid-body electric, and I'm drawn to Fender Stratocasters with the stripe on the neck.
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Location: south east Michigan | I also like the stripe. I always thought that the design made the neck stronger but I found out during last years tour that it is for the most part, for looks. |
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Location: Midland, MI | Originally posted by Old Applause Owner:
Nothing like a visual stripe....I'm about to buy myself a solid-body electric, and I'm drawn to Fender Stratocasters with the stripe on the neck.
I prefer the looks of the five-piece neck on Ovations and find the two-piece necks rather 'plain' looking.
As far as the Febder, you really owe it to yourself to check out the G&L stuff. Being a recent convert myself, I'm probably not the most objective person, but...I think G&L makes a better Febder than Febder. The resale bl0ws goats, but that just means if you buy used (as I prefer to do), you can get some screaming deals.
YMMV. |
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Location: Indiana | I agree with cruster. G&L are great guitars and basses. I have 2 basses myself.
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| G&L are better than Febder in the same way that Heritage are way better than Ginson. In both cases (especially Heritage) their quality control is way better. |
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| And I agree totally about the skunk stripe. The fatter the better. |
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Location: Midland, MI | I would substitute Hamer for Heritage in your post, but the sentiment remains. ;) |
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Location: Canton (Detroit), MI | cruster, too late....bought a 70s reissue Strat today at Motor City Guitar....they had some used and new G&Ls, but I was after the "Strat vibe".
What came in a close second was the Epi Les Paul Ultra that was tested in the current Guitar Player. Absolutely the lightest normal-size body electric guitar I've ever picked up!!!!! If Gibson's quality control had caught the neck problem I found(bad sealer, causing a ridge near the neck heel along the wood grain that looked like a sure problem down the road), it would have been a sale.
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Location: south east Michigan | Roger...nice get....post a pic! |
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Gotta Have the Skunk Stripe