But should I swap necks? (Whiskeyface ripoff thread)

[trace]

Thanks for the inspiration whiskey_face!

So I'm moving soon from a house to an apt and am only taking 1 guit, 1 bass, and one amp.
Anyway, I'm taking my Kramer dmz-2000 as the guitar and my orange crush 35b bass amp but I couldn't decide between these two basses, my kramer aluminum neck and this grabber copy I got from jwar. Both are projects anyway so I figured I could combine the two! I love the kramer neck but I hate the bc rich-y body style. And it has way too many knobs and switches I don't even know what they do
I had them both somewhat apart so I went ahead and pulled the necks to mock it up. I like it a lot so I'm pretty sure I'm going to do it regardless of what y'all think lol.

[AxAxSxS]

My first thought was no, and financially speaking, NO!


But this is kinda win, I say go for it!



A note on all the switches and knobs.

I'm not sure whats going on there as the P/J pups don't support what mine does with a similar looking control layout, put Kramers pickups and internals were quite good based off the examples I've owned. It might be worthwhile to find a way to incorporate all that into the end project.

[trace]

My first thought was no, and financially speaking, NO!

Yeah I should have said that I am not going to make any permanent mods to the kramer at all and hopefully very little to the grabber. And I will keep the extra body and neck so that I can return both to stock if I need to resell. The kramer electronics are very good but I like the simplicity of the grabber. I may upgrade the pots since the tone is a bit scratchy.

[Holy Schnikes]

Shit looks tight on the Grabber.

[Haki]

Shit looks tight on the Grabber.

[sylnau]

Shit looks tight on the Grabber.

Yeah! But look like the metal neck is not large enoug to fit? Maybe it's just the picture.

[trace]

it is a little narrower, I will have to make a little wood shim of sorts. I think it'll look fine when it's done. Stay tuned for pics!

[goosekevin]

Swapping is definitely the right decision
I would lovvvve a grabber, especially with that neck

[tuffteef]

ye mate dase has a grabber with a alumi neck
pretty sweet

[whiskey_face]

fuckin do it.

[Jeff-7]

The Grabber looks sick with the Kramer neck. Do it.

[dase]

ye mate dase has a grabber with a alumi neck
pretty sweet

yup and it's basically the best thing ever.

[jrmy]

fuckin do it.

[AxAxSxS]

If its just scratchy, open it up and spray some de-oxit inside the pots. 90% of the time it works all the time.

[higain617]

I have an '81 DMZ but it's black and doesn't have the crown cut on the back of the body. It has passive P/J pickups and is the shit. I wouldn't personally do it but they're your guitars.