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[quote name='GremlinAndy' timestamp='1335039239' post='1625173'] not professional enough to spell "professional" correctly though? lol ...Sorry dude, I just had to... I know it was just a slip of the keypad! Good luck finding your bassist! Oh, have a bonus bump on me too! [/quote] Shob gite.

I'm posting this for my mate from my last band. He's 50 y/o, a bit of a shredder. He's a songwriter but will play covers happily, and a sublimely good guitarist. Although he loves to shred, he can play any rock/blues style to a world class level. He has played his music on Radio One's "Friday Rock Show" and was featured on the John Peel show back in the day. He's a really, really nice guy, and very reliable and enthusiastic. He'd consider anything, but mostly likes to play classic rock and metal, covers or originals. If you want to see him play: http://www.youtube.com/user/Greenshredman#g/u Let me know if you are interested and I'll pass it on. If you contact him direct tell him Mark sent you.

Copy of an early Yamaha BB perhaps? There is a PJ BB that looks very similar to this. Might be why its familiar looking.

I reckon with about 10 minutes work this should be worth a lot more than this guy expects. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/251039789617?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2648 It's good and "Roadworn", so he's put it up for "spares or repair" I suppose he doesn't know that its trendy to artificially batter your guitar at the moment. I quite fancy it, I love old MIJ's and these were supposed to be almost as good as the real thing. What do you think? £100.00 if he sells it as a damaged old bat, or £300.00 if it sells as "roadworn and dripping with mojo"?

Blimey, if you had dissed the Badass on BC a couple of years back, you would have got pooed on from a great height by the BC Mafia! I think they still have a shrine forum to it pinned somewhere....... I asked Bernie Goodfellow to tweak the neck on my last frankenbass. when he saw I had put a Babicz bridge on it. He said, "Oh no not another new bloody bridge design, none of them make any bloody difference!" (To be fair, when I got it back he said he really liked the Babicz after all because it was nice to set up). But that says it all really..... The best pickups i have are on my Lakland Glaub (Fralins), they are grindy, growly, full and cut through. My Wizard Thumpers come a close second, and at only £50.00 are amazing. BTW, +1 on the Willpower pup, I have a Model one in my frankenbass and it sounds amazing. No more Seymour Duncans for me though. I'd buy the Wizards if I was you, you won't regret it.

Turqoise Tokai Jazz with a brass pickguard. I was a 17 yo lead guitarist and had to gig it straight away in a Free/Rory Gallegher type blues rock outfit in the mid '80s. It sounded and played great even if I didn't (btw, have been a bassist ever since, never looked back). Really, really ugly colour scheme. But I'd give every bass I own to have her back.

This guy is in Manchester and ships it all over. some great online tutorials of how to use it too. Not sure if it's cheap, but its made for guitars. http://www.manchesterguitartech.co.uk/

And you did too, I just read your reply. Sorry about that, I went off and bought the thing and didn't check back. For the record, thanks for the advice and I agree with you 100%!

Hi, I posted a few weeks back asking if anyone had experience of Warmoths new "Slim Taper" neck option. Nobody did, but I went ahead anyway and promised to give my opinion to anyone thinking of buying one (Warmoth bass necks seemed to have a bit of a rep for being baseball batty on the talkbass forums). I got this one in standard maple, but with a macassar ebony fretboard. Nut is P-width, finish is satin nitro. Well it is slim, but not unusually so for a high-class instrument, I expect they are comparing it as "slim" with fat vintage Fender-style necks. Anyone used to playing a Lakland or a Warwick lightning fast neck will be familiar with this kind of profile. In fact with the fast satin nitro finish, it feels very like my Lakland Bob Glaub. The finish and workmanship is as perfect as you would expect, and these come with strengthening rods like USA Fenders, but did not feel heavy at all (another stigma of Warmoth bass necks apparently), so hopefully neck-dive won't be an issue. I have to say that although I had to sell my partner into slavery to get one, I'm absolutley chuffed to bits with it. If you are thinking of getting a slim-taper Warmoth, you won't be dissapointed. BTW Machine heads were from Axesrus, and are really nice for £8.00 each (beautiful machining on the gears), great service too. [attachment=103675:028.JPG][attachment=103674:027.JPG][attachment=103672:025.JPG][attachment=103673:026.JPG]

Learning DEFINATELY NOT EVER to work with all the "puffed up w***ers" mentioned in earlier posts. Most of them can't hang on to a decent band anyway, no matter how "f***ing amazing" they ostensibly are. There are just as many truly nice superb musicans out there who are decent to work with, they are the bands that will work out and last long. Seek them out and stay with them, ignore the rest no matter how attractive they may seem. Do not be tempted to bask in anothers glory, be confident and proud in yourself.

I have the money to pay for one ready, but I think things can have an intrinsic value based on workmanship, playability, sound, customer service etc, so not sure i agree. I don't want to waste my money on a baseball bat. It's hard to make that judgement without the opinions of people like you who already own Warmoth necks, as I don't have access to one to try it out, and I have never had to deal with Warmoth. Thanks for your opinion on the profile though, that was one of the most important parts for me. As far as the slim taper profile goes, nobody seems to know about them so I assume it's a fairly new option. I think I'll get it made anyway. I'll stick a brief review of it up on BC once I get it if anyone is interested.

For my latest frankenbass, I want to put a Warmoth P-bass neck onto a Fender body with some Wizard thumper pickups that i have. The neck specs i want are: Maple neck, Macassar ebony fingerboard, unlined fretless, "Slim taper" neck profile. I do have a few worries though: My biggest worry is that I have heard that Warmoth bass necks are a bit thick and "baseball batty". I really like a slim neck, so I wonder if anyone has experience of their "Slim Taper" profile. I have also heard that the steel reinforcing rods in the neck affect the sound (I assume brighten it up) and make the necks quite heavy. Anyone know about this? Also, and I know that this is quite a subjective question, but do you think that the £350.00 odd (including shipping and customs) that this is about to cost me is justified for a Warmoth Fretless neck and the earache I am going to get from my missus? Are they really that good? I'm also wondering if I should approach a luthier over here, but I like the fact that a Warmoth neck holds its value, while a British one-off might not, and I really want the funky macassar fingerboard. Any advice much appreciated! Cheers Mark

[quote name='thepurpleblob' timestamp='1329670207' post='1545602'] You could be overthinking it [/quote] Lol! wondered if it might be a dry subject for some. It's all well researched stuff, but I had always wondered about it. I'm a science geek so I found it interesting.