Author Topic: 82 Spoiler with Novatone fretboards (Read 159 times)

elwoodblue · « **on:** June 23, 2011, 04:18:43 PM »

This has come up before...pretty cool Swiss army Alembic.

pauldo · « **Reply #1 on:** June 23, 2011, 07:06:32 PM »

Very cool.

sonicus · « **Reply #2 on:** June 23, 2011, 07:21:16 PM »

Yes , Cool , But I am curious how the finger board connects to the neck and as to the transfer of resonance through out the unit with out sympathetic vibrations and artifact anomalies that will color the sound. Plain and simple ; how well does such a system really work ?
Any experiences around here ?

cozmik_cowboy · « **Reply #3 on:** June 24, 2011, 02:07:52 AM »

I was curious too, Wolf, so I did some research (read Google), and it seems the original neck was planed down & a metal plate attached - the fretboards are magnetic. In the dicussion I found, those with experience seemed split about evenly between it's ruined every bass it was put on & mine was great. Of course, the former camp did include Roger Sadowski.....

Peter

sonicus · « **Reply #4 on:** June 24, 2011, 02:51:12 AM »

Peter, Yes , I Googled with search words 'Novatone Fretboards. I read the Talk Bass comments. It seems it might have some faults . I see the name reference ; Roger Sadowski .