Cuzzie

Essentially you need to match your body neck pocket rout to the contour of your neck heel. If there is a mismatch you can alter the neck pocket to fit the neck so there is a good contact maintained. the most important joins are Heel into the body laterally on the upper horn side.

I was going to say the Tech21 PSA2.0, but that’s may not be the price you wanted to hear either!

Seems like we have a roughly accurate chronology then - good work @jrixn1

I think if I have it right from memory they produce around 250 bases per month so that holds water, and you can work backwards

Latest 18130 is 2013 will keep searching

No problems with my status neck or my Stealth

I cannot for the life of me remember either, I am sure I made reference somewhere an old one of mine was 15 hundreds - and I think that was around 2010-2012?

Email them!

That’s the spirit look forward to it

Fair enough To do it justice - I would have accepted phone video or audio just for a taster!

I’ve put all kinds of effects through mine - handles with aplomb

Good we need more info and possibly audio

It is such a phenomenal cab - congrats. It does look like cherry on a cake

Mine would look like a lollipop then - its already ridiculous with the hohner

Thanks - I have a stealth - lovely flat profile and probably my fave neck is their Jazz bolt on - just a dream - only way to decide is to play i reckon! I am a bit like happy jack though, i can live with most profiles

No worries - i suppose a lot will also depend on which preamp is in either bass as well

Have you ever played a Status stealth and compare the 2? Always quite fancies a streamline

Not cheating - I have always used the pre cut TUSQ XL nuts - just make sure you get the correct one for neck width

Shaping bodies is just patience as well and templates!

The thing is you can easily pop the electronics and hardware you won’t from the get go - makes it very pleasurable

The other thing to bear in mind is also that even from the factory from a good manufacturer there will be alterations - some basses leave with a shim on the neck - tolerance on CNC machines means that it won’t be perfect every time so a bit of pocket work is necessary. It’s no different in bitsa’s, you can switch a nut on a neck to have a reverse headstock whatever handed the bass is, pockets can be built up, necks can be shaved - as long as you keep your scale lengths correct, these minor tolerances are fixable, then the parts do fit

Thanks The only ‘bought my bases I have are ones I defo can’t make (Yet hopefully!), or are a bit special/not easily available like a Hamer 12 string, or Hohner B2AD and my Sandberg MarloweDK old shape. The key to self builds carving or not carving is the neck - that is where you invest your quality. When I can make a neck very well - the potential for me buying is even less. You have to remember companies like Cataldo (I am still not sure if they do necks) and Nash are really only bitsa companies - I am pretty sure Nash did their own bodies but imported necks and did a relic job. I don’t know the answer to this as to how much luthiering they do, but wasn’t Leo Fenders objective time basically build a big company offering bitsa Basses?

I’d put my bitsa’s against bought basses any day of the week. Are they perfect? No Is every bought bass perfect? No What you can do if frugal and be prepared to wait and pounce at the right time is pick up what you want/need second hand, or even new but unused. First one I did was the white one with the status neck - I was very specific about what I wanted for this, so some bits were new - Totalled all up, would still be competitive with a Fender Standard/player series and defo cheaper than the Mex Nate Mendel. Second was the Gold - done from blank, paint job relic according to where I wear the bass and play it - this was defo under a new Mex P. Third is orange - body shaped by me personally with fonts where I wanted them to rest my hands - all in all cheaper than a second hand Mex. I could parts them out and recoup most of what I paid. It can be done

Balancing the force

Remember if you want different pick ups from the Delano - or potentially pre-amp it’s not on the configurator-but you can email and sort it once you have your configured code saved