Munurmunuh

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Current MIJ Fender Ps - the Traditional 50s, 60s and 70s are all listed as U-shaped, with 43mm, 42mm and 40mm nuts respectively

Ooh I bet they would know the profile specs for MIJ U-shaped necks.... 🤓

Well, yeah, an excellent point. When I first ordered it, the idea was that it would exploit my inexperience and I would mold my expectations to the reality of the bass. (A bit like how my idea of the perfect piano is the highly idiosyncratic one I grew up playing) (very badly) Now I've more of a clue, and am in danger of being less pliant.

Once this gets officially marked as lost, I won't try barking up a similar tree - I figured that kind of money was pseudo-worth-it if I got exactly what I wanted, and the SB-1 would have been that. If fate decides I'm not getting exactly what I want, rather than get second best, I'll just aim lower and in a different direction and perhaps push my boundaries a bit eg fit a dimarzio P to a used MIJ Precision, risk trying a bigger neck. When the SB-1 was returned to the factory in December and I knew I had a fair bit more waiting to do, at least, I bought a BB424 which I've been extremely happy with. Perhaps instead of having one perfect bass plus a backup I'll have two or three middling basses that make me equally happy in different ways. One can tire out my left hand, one can tire out my shoulders, one can sit there looking pretty ... or handsomely knackered .... The thing about dreaming up plans is that you never know if they're actually right for you until the opportunity comes to put them into action. Since that moment isn't imminent, I might as well equip myself with a whole bunch of them

I think the cure for this phase ⬆️ would be found in moving onto this phase ⬇️ so I'll give it a go. And so here's the bass I'm now trying to give up on.....

What happens if you tell your fingers it isn't fast? Do they fall for the lies?

The funny thing is that I've got myself so used to thinking this order is doomed to failure that if it suddenly reappeared, the part of me that's been bracing me for bad news would almost feel hacked off, messed around. And then the bass would arrive, and I would open the case, and all that would melt away.... 😅

I know it must be very late in NZ, so I appreciate your staying up this late to reply. Sweet dreams 😴

Do scorpions edit out smileys, too? 😋

If TB was told this bass was available for sale, it would be gone by the end of the day: a P-bass with a quartersawn J-neck weighing 7.0 lbs.

Ah, forums..... 🥰 Weirdly, I'm not feeling angry or anything like that. I'm aware that the world is in a pickle at the moment, and that the disappointment of a bass going astray doesn't get far down the list of Bad Things Available During A Pandemic. I think my main feeling is that I am absolutely sick of thinking about it, sick of wishing for it. I'm full of daydreams for what I might get instead. Daydreams that don't involve international shipping. The ironic bit to this is that after a lifetime of having to take my music extremely seriously, bass playing was supposed to be just a light-hearted diversion to entertain me at home whilst public music making was impossible.

The dealer, who I chose very carefully, has behaved impeccably so far, I have no fears on that front. It was thanks to his care that I didn't receive an incorrectly specced bass 5 months ago, and the ongoing USPS investigation was raised by him. The number of emails the poor sod has had to write me since September....

This is not a request to be hectored about how I should be feeling, or what I ought to be doing - I'd be posting this on TB if I wanted that - I just want to get a sense of what the average reaction would be, so I can measure myself up against it. --- 21 Sep: placed order for a G&L bass with a non-standard combination of specs, via an US dealer with an excellent reputation 14 Dec: bass arrives at dealer, is found not to be built to correct spec (not unusual for G&L in 2020) and is returned to factory 17 Mar: now-perfect bass reappears at dealers, and is shipped to UK 19 Mar: tracking shows bass arriving at airport in NY and is never heard of again 19 May: after sundry excuses from USPS (lack of capacity, delays at UK customs, etc) an official investigation is raised. These can take up to 32 business days. Allowing for public holidays, that period ends on 7 July, a fortnight from now --- So, ignoring what-ifs relating to the past, how would you be feeling, were you standing in an equivalent spot and wondering, what next? I might be inexperienced with bass-buying, but disappointment and frustration are old friends, so don't feel you need to tread lightly

Most of the bangers on the mid-90s banger-rich albums of the Polish rock band Hey were sung in English...but not this, Je-łe. Fast, loud, and sung by an extraordinary voice

If I equipped myself with one of those, the question would be, which would be reduced to useless junk first, my bass or my arm? 😰 I think the best solution to this issue is sending an email to Bass Direct's Commission Sales Dept

No apologies for bumping this rather than starting afresh 😋 Bass Gallery have this nice Ibanez-Blazer-reminiscent Cimar P bass for sale. The neckplate seems to say Made In Japan. The nut looks relatively narrow for a P. Will these Cimars have the same Dimarzio-copy pickups as in the Blazer?

My latest dumb daydream I would never dare see through: changing the humbuckers on my TRBX for a pair of Reverse P soapbars. But I look at the sizes of split coil pickups, and look at the size of these svelte humbuckers and wonder how that is supposed to fit in there. One half of my BB's split pickup is as wide as my TRBX's humbucker.

Does the current Attitude 3 have a more shallow neck? The Yamaha site lists its specs at 44.5mm / 20mm / 24mm.

I don't know if this helps, but the BB1024 thickness specs are the same as the Warmoth standard profile, which they call "a medium thickness most players enjoy". That neck tho has a 43mm nut, so how different that kind of thickness feels once stretched across the greater width, search me.

I've noticed that some current MIJ Ps have 40mm nuts and are called U shaped, and have been wondering if that means they're like the 424 / 1024. And if so, if that combination of fairly narrow nut with decent depth is a Japanese thing. Whatever it is, I want more of it.

The nut might be only 40mm but the 1st / 12th fret depths are 22mm / 25mm. To give a comparison, a Vintera 50s P is 20.8mm / 22.9mm

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Replacing an instrument with one that suits you more - whether that means adding or losing strings, or increasing or shortening the scale length - is always an upgrade. Even if it's cheaper.