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Travel Neck and Hard Case
Inside the bass neck is a L-shaped carbon fiber bracket. This bracket runs down the entire length of the neck, turns inside the heel, and continues through to the end of the neck foot. Having this carbon fiber bracket not only reinforces the wood grain of the neck, but insures that the pressure points are carbon fiber to aluminum. A 3/16″ Allen wrench is used to assemble/disassemble the neck from the body. Removing the neck and packing up can be done in just 15 minutes.
The height of the strings or “action” is adjusted by a second location on the back of the bass. A 3/16″ Allen wrench is used to move the entire neck forward or backward, and this smooth adjustment is done under full tension after the instrument is setup.
The core of this travel neck mechanism centers around a fully-lined aluminum channel and aluminum “frog”. Many current travel neck solutions involve some sort of wood to wood pressure points and contacts. Over the years of use these wood contacts will wear and “slop” will develop in the neck joint. This system is constructed and installed so the joint will never wear and slop will never develop. This unique system was invented by luthier Jim Ham in 1995 and he has kindly taught me the method and technique for installing travel necks on my Lloyd basses.
The aluminum frog slides inside the channel and allows the bassist to adjust their string heights without using threaded wheels in the bridge. Ebony caps off the entire block for a sleek, attractive aesthetic.
I am excited to offer a new travel neck trunk from the Red Brown Case company in California. Each trunk is custom built to fit my different Lloyd bass models. This means any double bass I build can fly securely in checked luggage and under 50 lb… including a 5-string bass with chromatic C-extension!
For a 3/4 Lloyd the trunk dimensions are 49″x32″x19″. For a 7/8 Lloyd the dimensions are 51″x32″x19″. The Red Brown trunk is the strongest, lightest, and most versatile bass trunk I’ve come across in the industry and sells for $2600 plus freight shipping.
