recently saw what purported to be a neck dive solution on ebay. looked to be an overly long strap button replacement for the neck horn strap button. maybe 3 inches or so (hard to tell).

Thanks Gee. That sounds so ugly though.

You are correct. I've seen them listed as "Bass Balancers." My Hamer 12 string has a bad case of neckdive. However, everyone I talked to urged me not to go that route. Unless the hole for the button is going to be drilled deeper into the body, they said it would simply put more stress on the button and the hole and possibly rip it out. That may or may not be a problem with a lighter bass. Figured I'd just throw that out here to consider.

One idea that came to mind was to add weight to the bridge.

Thoughts?

Or maybe subtract weight from the head??

Yeah, but what if that turns me into a guitarist?

HAHA, i thinks that was a joke... if it was LOL

It was a joke.

Unless you are a guitarist. The ones I played with never really enjoyed those much. Drummer & singers did though.

Too solve it this way.. you would have to add WAY to much weight to do any good.

I think I said this a few months ago but this may help you. I have an Epiphone EB-35 5 string SG bass that is tremendously neck heavy (little body, no upper horn to speak of, and a very wide weighty neck). I took a velcro, wraparound pocket thing, kind of like one of those wallets that wrap around your wrist or ankle that joggers use, added some lead fishing weights in the pocket and put it on my strap about where the strap lock is. It doesnt totally offset the neck dive but it pretty nearly balances it out.

Jeffery that really rings a bell.

I think I unintentionally plagiarized you. Apologies!

How much weight?

I am really not sure how much weight it amounts to....I used about 5 or 6 medium fishing weights. It doesnt seem like much but all you are trying to do is counter neck dive and it doesnt take that much. Like I said, it doesnt cure it all the way, just makes it so the dive isnt as pronounced.