Doctor J

To a point, but nowhere near what it would be like with the fretless section at the nut. With the frets towards the dusty end of the neck, the fretless part would be mostly useless as there would effectively be a large step between where your finger holds the string down and the witness point of the bridge. The closer to the frets you would play, the higher the action would need to be to clear the fret. If you can't visualise it, try put a coin lying on your 12th fret and try hold the string down at the 7th fret and see if the string clears it 😉

The action would have to be insanely high for the strings not to make contact with the frets when you were playing fretless.

Flametop?

Cronos went fretless from the 12th fret on many of his basses in the 80's

That used to be not quite popular, but not totally unheard of in the late 80's/early 90's. I saw a couple of bands who had that fretted/fretless setup.

Toastocaster?

All the time. I started out with a country lick and am now waist deep in thick disco soup. I am trying to source a midi controller so I can add the synth wierdness this country lick simply needs 😁

The EHBs are fat on the treble side, they're more like a wedge shape, no?

Some gratuitous pics of the SB trying to show how they slimmed out the body 🙂

No, Peavey know how to make an amp. They were sold to Gibson and that's when it started to go south (surprise surprise). Peavey only own distribution rights in Northern America.

Imagine how busy the Fender Returns department would have been towards the end of the 70's 😂

If you're talking about the whispered, breathy sheeeite so in vogue these days, you're pointing the finger at the wrong doggie.

The hue of the side dots is due to the colour of the tinted finish and surely supposed to be like that? Both those necks have wood of the same colour, just one is sprayed with an orange tinted gloss to give it the... well... classic vibe you paid for. There's nothing there which would bother me but if you feel you must return it, go for it.

The ad title is Nowhere is it claimed the bass is a Fender, or even the bass is a Precision for that matter, and rightly so. It's a Fender 3 hole neck plate. The rest? Well, I can tell you what it isn't 😉

I am very fond of this Blade B4. I knew a guy in the early 90's who had one of their strats and it was a thing of beauty, always wanted to try one of the basses. Worst? I bought a pedal case for a project and had moved on from needing it before it even arrived. Now it sits there, mocking me.

"Bass is the tool of ignorance" - Blackie Lawless 😂 On a happier tone, at one gig I was told "We couldn't hear the band but we could feel your bass" ...which was nice.

A Year of Birth bass shouldn't be too expensive at this point.

He should quit smoking, too.

"The bass booms, dropping like a paving slab from the top of a tower block, shattering, spreading the circumfluent surges of the guitar and keyboards to areas of half-baked excitement." Foooook sake.

All killer, no filler! Very nice indeed.

It doesn't look too bad, I'll allow it.

Hipshot B bridges in general, just something about them irks me. The 5 string model, in particular, is a work of asymmetric evil.

There have been two Origin customs in the FS section here recently which have been two of the nicest looking basses I have ever seen. The green 6 string ad has had all the pics removed and, if it was a 4 string, would be living with me now. It was the same model as this, the other one, This is outrageously nice (but unfortunately fretless). The Fender-alikes do absolutely nothing for me at all but, if it pays the bills, fair enough.