My 'Neck' of the 'Woods'!

[Craig Courtney]

Originally Posted by Tim Bishop

Yep, dat be a great combo! Along with that one, I have a few favorites: Probably my favorite would be Coco T&B, Maple Core or Walnut Core, with Maple or Walnut Lams. Oh yeah, and give me that in a 7&7 please!

Well,
I'm an advocate of Walnut over Maple and a newly converted "Smithee".
I did my first show with my first Smith BSR 5TN .
Even though I have to re-learn how to play my bass because this thing
actually reacts to everything and anything you do on it.
The bass is intoxicating.
It takes a fraction of the effort with the right hand to do anything and everything because it responds like nothing I have ever played or heard.

The B string is a thing of beauty. Rich and deep but not overwhelming like every other 5'er I've played.

The best way to describe it is like strapping yourself into a Ferrari.
The bass responds up and down the spectrum to everything you do.

My sound engineer even commented that no matter where I played
on the neck, the volume was even and smooth and every note could be heard unlike all of my other basses.

It used to take so much effort to get those upper notes to sound out
but now I have to remind myself to just back off, play the notes, and trust the instrument. I'm not used to a bass that responds this well to whatever you need to do.

Is it the construction of the neck?
Setup of the neck?
The pickups?
Combination of both?
All three?

Ahhhhh.....
Wait....
It's got to be Ken's "Secret Sauce".

Crown and Diet coke for me, I don't have to drive my bass
again for three or four days.
Are there any laws against that?