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Right.
I have an old body from a vox standard bass. (Pbass style pickup rout) Its a lovely heavy lump of wood and it seems a waste to have it just sitting under the bed so tinking of starting a wee project.
I'm thinking of making a fretless as i dont have one and have never played one.
So first thing i need is a neck.
Oh and I have very little money so need to do this on the cheap.
either a fretless or a cheap fretted one that i can take the frets out of. (i'm reasonably handy with the ol' woodwork so should be safe!)

One of my local musicshops has an un-badged p bass style neck, a few dings, broken nut, dry patches on the rosewood, japanese '85. Feels really good. It says £50 is this reasonable how much are these things worth? I dont want to go spend more money than i need!

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If the neck comes with hardware then £50 probably isn't too bad, though how the guy knows it's a japanese '85 if he doesn't know the brand is beyond me. Stamps on the heel?

I might be more inclined to pick up one of the cheap squiers that go on ebay for less than £50 pretty regularly, and then sell off the parts that are no good to you (like all the electrics :)). A bit of a pig in a poke, but I'd guess you're in the same position with the neck you're looking at.

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[quote name='LukeFRC' post='149682' date='Mar 2 2008, 01:19 AM']yeah it says on the heel. it sans hardware too. im tempted to take my body allong, see if it fits and then try and talk them down.[/quote]
£50 seems pretty high when you can get an entire new P-type bass for £70 off ebay, or a new maple board P-bass neck from Soundwood for £75 or so. Westfield necks seem to crop up every now and again on ebay and they're worth looking at.

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Maybe look at something like this, you can always sell it on if it's not your bag or get it re-fretted :)

[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/yamaha-rbx-270-fretless-bass_W0QQitemZ130202436569QQihZ003QQcategoryZ4713QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/yamaha-rbx-270-fretl...1QQcmdZViewItem[/url]

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