My 'Neck' of the 'Woods'!

[Bob Faulkner]

I won't argue with Ken on necks.. He refused my custom neck request 7.5 years ago when I ordered, but he explained to me in fair detail why he doesn't do custom necks and I accepted that.

To this day I take him for his word.. We rehearse in my basement, which is not temperature controlled other than what seeps down from upstairs, and the temperature changes down there require me to retune all my other basses every time we play. The Smith rarely needs to be retuned, and most of the time when it does it is so little out that the simple change in tension of tuning the E string the 1/4 step it may be off brings the rest back in tune. As we rehease the amps will heat the basement up so we'll see a temperature swing down there of 20 degrees during a session, no need to retune the Smith.. That neck is solid as a rock..