Señor Voorhees
Well-Known Member
Are the guitars you've played hipshot hardtail and neck through. There's really not much room for neck angle with a bridge as shallow as a hipshot. The pictures on the axe palace don't give a good viewing angle, but it doesn't look like there is one... And if there is, it's not by much.
In order to have neck angle with a hipshot you'd have to crank the saddles pretty high.
Now that I'm looking at my E-II bass though, there appears to be a very slight angle despite being a short bridge. (though it's bolt on so not entirely a good comparison.) I'm gonna guess that the guitar has a smaller angle, and that angle (especially one so shallow) makes very little difference in the feel to one with a straight angled neck. There's also the possibility that it was never the neck angle he didn't like, and it was something more significant like neck profile or joint or something.
In order to have neck angle with a hipshot you'd have to crank the saddles pretty high.
Now that I'm looking at my E-II bass though, there appears to be a very slight angle despite being a short bridge. (though it's bolt on so not entirely a good comparison.) I'm gonna guess that the guitar has a smaller angle, and that angle (especially one so shallow) makes very little difference in the feel to one with a straight angled neck. There's also the possibility that it was never the neck angle he didn't like, and it was something more significant like neck profile or joint or something.