miles'tone

Sold

I have always used 2000 grit wet and dry. Moisten it a little and just rub it up and down the neck. Takes about 20 secs and it just takes the hard shine off really. Leaves the neck smooth and super fast to play. Wipe off any residue with a clean cloth and you're done.
Piece of pi$$.

Thanks very much dannybuoy, that's brilliant!

DR's £18!

£14 cheaper than new! BOOM!

C'mon you're killing me!

Type of bump..

The Fleece is throwing a free entry party tomorrow night in thanks of all the support they've received (38,000 people have signed the petition so far) and to raise further awareness of their situation.

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Of course.

Maybe he has been sold it as he describes it.

Mainly, I'm just seeing how my "Fender-identifying" skills are coming along
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Sorry there Mel, my comment was meant towards the people who wanted to see the pots and date marks.

As for your Id skills they are coming along just fine. Well done for questioning the body shape, you were right to.

To be fair to the seller, they do state to contact them regarding any queries.
They may even be up for an in person inspection from a buyer. Don't know til you ask!

The body does look quite slabby doesn't it.
Fender's back then were all shaped by hand on sanding machines so they weren't as consistent as our CNC basses of today of course. Maybe it was a friday avo bass
May be legit. Looks bloody lovely mind.

Edit.. The "70's" logo as it's known was used from '68

Signed and shared too.
Love The Fleece, had many a great night there.

For anyone who's interested, here's the Chili Peppers jamming on a Funkadelic track with The Roots after the drum off.

I'm hearing more tuba

http://consequenceofsound.net/2014/05/watch-red-hot-chili-peppers-plug-in-their-instruments-deliver-surprise-performance-on-fallon/

Got 9 year old Super Slinky's on my Charvel Surfcaster semi.. Sounds amazing!

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Dunno if it's on the YouTube link provided, but they were interviewed before they done the drum off as well, pretending to be each other.
Pretty amusing, especially when they're talking about the charities they are donating to.
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Will Ferrell and Chad Smith Talk About Their Riva…: http://youtu.be/EsWHyBOk2iQ

Made my morning

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Here's a couple of quickies....

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Oh yes please!

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Thank you everyone for your time and helpful advice. Basschat comes up trumps again
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Awesome stuff! Glad it was nothing major.
Now, let's see some piccys of the whole bass! The little we have seen looks gorgeous.

Can you take a pic from further back to see how the strings run along the whole length of the neck - from nut to heel and a bit of the body? Might still be that easy fix (neck looks to be leaning to the right a smidge to me). The nut seems to be cut properly from what you say.

Fingerboard and frets looks lush by the way.

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Surely there shouldn't be any room in the neck pocket for the neck to move in the first place? This isn't a 70s Fender we're talking about where the pin router templates were so badly worn that there was plenty of play. I've not owned a Fender but none of the other makes of bass (or guitars) with bolt-on necks that I own, have any play whatsoever at the neck joint.

This isn't a cheap bass. Send it back as being of substandard fit and finish. If people don't complain then Fender will never take their QC seriously.
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The neck pocket is mostly open on the treble side of a Fender. Enough for it to move a smidge no matter how precise the rout.
It may be a CS bass but it's still a load of bits screwed together.

Of course it's all up to the OP to do what he feels most comfortable with.

Best of luck with it all.

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If it was only the alignment of the strings equally on the neck that was the problem, the first thing I would suspect would be the neck had received a jolt during shipping. Even a very good neck/pocket fit can be nudged out of alignment quite easily. I would have slackened the strings then slackened the neck bolts & 'got a feel' for where the neck wanted to sit in the body. Then tightened the lot up & checked again, if it's wrong it always will be but chances are things would have seated themselves in the right place for the sake of 5 minutes with a screwdriver.

Easier than sending it back
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This, and what Paubass said.

These basses come a long way and a little shift in transit is all it probably is.

Boing

GHS Pressurewound Bass Strings: http://youtu.be/2GcQJyHGbeY

Fretless at 4.40

Lovely strings, mmwah, warmth and not too high tension. Won't eat up your board as they are relatively smooth. Loved them on a fretless that I had and I will be getting another set when my current defret is ready.

Bump up for Drop Downs

I used to have an old 2 band Stingray that I ended up selling as I didn't quite get on with it.
Saw this Ed Friedland vid recently and realised I was so young when I had mine that I probably didn't experiment enough with the tone controls.
I often wonder what I could get out of it today if I still owned it, what it really was capable of.

Check it out..

Music Man Classic StingRay 4- & 5-String Basses: http://youtu.be/TlMStrT5A6M

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I'd say that they are of similar difficulty. For every root note plodder bass player, there's a three cowboy chord folkie who can't play F or Bb and only has one strum and uses a capo to change key. Or a rock guitarist who only knows power chords and 16ths rhythm. It's the degree to which a player wants to take things beyond the minimum possible that defines the difficulty.

Learning to play guitar as well as Noel Gallagher, or to play bass as well as Percy Jones. Which is more difficult?
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Well said there.

To be fair to him I tried learning guitar half arsed when I was a kid, learned one song in 6 months. Moved to bass and learned four songs the first night! (2 Police, 2 Bob Marley) the smile on my face!
Much easier and more fun to begin on.
Much harder to be good at later on IMO. If the bass screws up, EVERYONE notices! The guitar, not so much.

Congrats!
I'm sure they will make all the difference.

Check out the Delano website. They have symbols next their different pickups to help you find a match that will alleviate this problem.
Otherwise, Dimarzio Model P/J and Split P/Ultra Jazz bridge work well together.

By the way I just bought your old BB415 off SlapbassSteve. I think it's a brilliant bass for the money and the output match between the pickups is spot on.
I have disc problems in my back and I like the lighter feel of the body on this bass but those BB tuners are HEAVY! Just ordered some Hipshot Lic Ultralites off the 'bay (from the States - much cheaper!)
I put some on an old Jazz bass of mine once that was really heavy and just this simple upgrade shaved off half a pound of the total body weight, which brought in the rest of the bass' centre of gravity nicely around the body area which was much more comfortable to manage.
That half a pound extra at the headstock really adds up. Levers and fulcrums and all that.
Maybe look at lighter tuners for your BB. The Lic Ultralites will be cheaper than a decent set of P/J's for the other bass.

Just a thought from a newly converted BB fan!

Good luck either way..