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[quote name='scalpy' timestamp='1493228212' post='3286761'] Just jammed a piece of paper in the nut slot (ouch!) and the problem is resolved. I'll have a think about getting heavier strings, although it seems a shame as I thought these were would be on for life! Thanks for the help everybody. Harry [/quote]see below

I dropped down to one, a Jazz 5 string, for a few years, but at the time I was probably playing more guitar. However I missed having a fretless, so that got added and now I' back up to 3 again having bought a semi recently, just 'cause I love the look of them!

Prime Bass is right. G &. L MJ bass is precisely that.

My direct answer to your specific question is horrible! Having looked on the website there is absolutely nothing there I would give house room. He may be a very good/clever luthier but they all look like style over substance to me and I bet they're expensive.

I don't think any 35 ins scale basses with only 21/22 frets exist! It's sounds to me as though you want a custom build, everyone hear says Maruszczyk will build you anything you want for a reasonable price, though I have no direct experience.

[quote name='FinnDave' timestamp='1490797911' post='3268124'] I use an Epiphone Jack Casady in a blues rock band, it's a semi-acoustic and 34" scale. [/quote]Good choice, sorry I forgot to mention them!

I had a spell of about a year of only fretless, just because my 5 string F. Jazz was to heavy for a damaged shoulder and the fretless was lighter. I don't think anyone noticed other than it was not a Fender. If you don't slide around and finger accurately it's very hard to tell often. I remember a gig with Robben Ford after he had parted company with Roscoe Beck, and his bass player was on a fretless Jazz for the whole gig. Play what you like and don't be intimidated by others.

If it's blues and you want an alternative to a precision it has to be a semi ala Gibson EB2/ Epiphone Rivioli. That's what many of the British blues bands of the sixties used, think Animals, Yardbirds etc. If you don't like short scale and I don't, Warwick do a good one the Star bass (which I think is 32ins scale) Ibanez used to a long scale semi (although I think they have now dropped it for a short) Dean make one currently finished in Yellow cab style complete with checker side and I got a long scale from BaCH which does the job well.

My brother recently bought the black and white 5 string version and says the quality is good. Needed a tweek on the action but plays ok. I have the BaCH semi and can only say that for the money it's brilliant. I reckon your conversion job would work better starting with the painted model and then getting the vinyl you put on cars printed with your Paisley pattern. That way if it does work you at least have a reasonable black bass you can use/sell.

Thank you, the 'sh' is a surprise but I guessed the chick bit!! May be their sales profile might have been helped had they adopted a more western sounding name like the chinese do. Adrian guitars would have been pretty good.

I know this is a dumb question but as I have never seen one of these in the flesh or in a shop I have no idea how to pronounce Maruszcyzk. I'd like to be enlightened.

Is Mac plying one in this photo of wings?

That would be really interesting to do. However won't there be a problem of the Starcaster body being designed for a short scale neck and a jazz neck being long scale? The bridge position need to be different and don't the Fender bodies come drilled for a bridge?

I would hope so. Beautiful bit of maple topping. Reminds me of a Maruzcyk (or however it's spelt!)

Seriously black!😎

Glad to see Fender have stabilised the necks better with an extra screw. Like the chandelier!

Nice looking bass, think the control knobs spoil the look though.

I had a Washburn guitar that looked kinda PRSish but had that same weird pointy headstock on it. What were their designers thinking of. The headstock got broken off though when it fell over so be careful.

I totally agree that so called acoustic basses are a waste of space, unless you have to have that full bodied look. You may be better off looking for a solid bodied bass with a piezo bridge like the Fishman. Fender Japan made the HMT with an f hole and a piezo bridge, some Yamaha TRBs also have them as does the Spector Spectorcore which I use. Can get a pretty good "acoustic" sound from it.

I think you need to decide if you like a passive pickup sound or active. Really good all rounders for reasonable bucks are the Korean made Spectors Legend and Coda. The NS shape is really comfortable and much favoured by US metal band bass players.