Doctor J

The recordings never lie.

I remember chrisguitars, usually a decent site, had a Coronado II bass listed for quite a while. For some reason, an owner had crudely gouged a hole, roughly the size of a cornflake, into the back of the neck around the 5th fret and inlaid a plastic jewel, like an emerald. They probably used their cro-magnon forehead to hammer it in. It was't a clean job, it wasn't a smooth job, the jewel stuck out, quite literally, of the neck. Eventually, it sold too. People forgive all kinds of sins if the thing is old.

I'd say crazy, personally, but I'm not the target for old gear. I would not be surprised at all if it sells at that price.

The pickup is wired to the switch and the switch is wired to the preamp, no? Leave the switch alone, so.

Vigier Passion and Arpege have 40mm nuts and the strings don't taper out too much at all on their way the bridge. They're far comfier than a 4001 too and usually quite light.

Any thoughts? Well, I wouldn't really have a use for it so I won't buy it, but you might have an entirely different set of criteria. What do you think?

If you use .105 for E when tuned to E, then it would make sense to try to keep E, A and D the same gauge, no? I use a .145 for B on a 4 string ESP Jazz I have in BEAD and sometimes drop that B to A. In my experience you've got to have bigger differences in gauge the lower you go, not smaller.

Hate is a very strong term, needlessly so. Many basses have been bought and sole over the years, can't say I've ever been so upset as to actually hate any.

I think slap bass and funk are two very different things. Slap can be a feature of funk but, to me, funk is about punctuating space, the interaction between multiple instruments and silence, combining to create a very rhythmic whole. Someone is slapping a bass does not make it funk, frequently it's the very opposite.

Expect the asking price of any old tat to skyrocket in the aftermath.

But the bar on a 5 string is not an unusual feature across other brands.

The bar is used on almost every Floyd Rose equipped guitar, many of which have headstock adjusted truss-rods. It's not an issue, in my experience, when it comes to truss-rod adjustment. I agree with you on the 4-string one, though, I've done the same on every 4 I have, either that one or the Hipshot one.

Not enough to strip the wood, it appears.

You might say you found what you were looking for?