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Post by Mikeyguitar on Feb 2, 2021 15:16:28 GMT -5
Odd, but I don't think I've ever seen this match-up on the FDP! 
So, do you guys (and or gals) have a preference? If so, why?
Lately I've been on a bolt-on kick. Some set-neck guitars seem a bit stiff to me. I don't know...maybe it was just the one guitar I remember from years ago.
Thoughts?
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Post by Leftee on Feb 2, 2021 15:19:20 GMT -5
I have both, although no neck-throughs.
I likes ‘em all.
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Post by LesTele on Feb 2, 2021 15:36:28 GMT -5
No preference. Most manufacturers do and I go with their choices and buy the guitars that appeal to me. At present the only bolt-on necks are Fenders.
I did have a Les Paul copy with a bolt-on neck very many years ago.
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Post by modbus on Feb 2, 2021 16:42:46 GMT -5
I have both, although no neck-throughs. I likes ‘em all.
Sounds like somebody needs to get himself a Firebird.
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Post by Leftee on Feb 2, 2021 17:10:43 GMT -5
Someday.
Nice try. 😂
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Post by Seldom Seen on Feb 2, 2021 18:06:49 GMT -5
No preference. Both work for me.
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Post by sirWheat on Feb 2, 2021 18:57:25 GMT -5
They're all good.
I got a Firebird recently, it really rings. Whether it's the wood or the design I don't know but it makes me want to check out other neck-throughs.
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Post by funkykikuchiyo on Feb 2, 2021 19:18:07 GMT -5
Gibson put a lot of time/money/effort into selling the idea that a set neck was the source of all of the great Gibson sound in the 80s and 90s, and it had people thinking a little too hard. It worked for what they wanted, because a bunch of people looked at any/every bolt on and wept gently at all of the tone lost. I'm not saying that it doesn't impart something - change a Les Paul to a bolt on and keep everything else the same and it'll definitely change, just not as much as the set neck fanatics would have you think.
It is hard to get an apples to apples comparison, and many, many other design elements change at the same time. Even the neck joint - the tenons on set neck instruments are not very much like neck pockets on bolt on neck guitars.
Much of the hate for bolt on designs comes from (in addition to the Gibson marketing) the simple fact that a bolt on will let a manufacturer practically get away with murder. If you tried having a glue joint with some of the sloppy bolt on joints out there it would fall apart sooner or later. So, for good comparison, a decently made bolt on has to be considered.
I have heard it described (and tend to agree) that bolt ons have the most percussive sound while neck throughs have the most even sound, a set neck being in between.
I think Peegoo has glued on bolt on necks before as an experiment. Maybe he'll weigh in.
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Post by modbus on Feb 2, 2021 20:01:24 GMT -5
I don't really care either way, as both have their advantages and disadvantages, but the last two bolt-on neck guitars I've gotten have both had too much material in the treble side of the neck pocket, causing the high e string to get pretty close to the edge of the fretboard down near the pickups.
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Post by Riff Twang on Feb 3, 2021 2:49:01 GMT -5
I've had and liked them all, as long as the instrument is well made.
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Post by guildx700 on Feb 3, 2021 20:15:32 GMT -5
Fun thing with bolt on is neck swapping. I love me some neck throughs though, my Bitches rock.
I'll take a dozen of everything thank Q.
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Post by walshb 🦒 on Feb 4, 2021 16:01:54 GMT -5
I don't really have a preference, but most of mine are set neck guitars.
I actually don't like the fact that necks can be swapped so easily. You have to be really careful buying used bolt-ons online. Too bad they don't put matching serial numbers on the neck and body.
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Post by budg on Feb 4, 2021 16:20:24 GMT -5
No preference. Love and own both.
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Post by LTB on Feb 4, 2021 18:01:44 GMT -5
I have set, bolt on and one thru the body bass. No issues with any
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