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^^Talkbass.. Nooo.. You say some simple aparrently harmless thing there and Bosh.. you get banned, feckin lunatics... 🤣

I seem to recall him saying he's not a Christine, just simply had to write the song about something..!

I think the OP would have to say he's right.. in as much as narrow/skinny neck doesn't automatically equate to this "fast" thing.. QED The rest is all down to personal preference and or what works best for the individual bass player, hence the debate..

I'd say it's been quite an interesting discussion really.. Like Maureen Lipman said in the ad, "it's good to talk" (that might have been a later ad tho, doh... ) 😁

Nearest I'd get to that would be a cheat sheet with simply the chords scribbled on a bit of paper in felt pen! Reading on a gig conjoures up an image of those big band stand things with a "Jack Parnell" logo and a lil' light on the back to see your part!

I could read notation in a very, very rudimentary fashion when I started saxophone, thanks to the venerable Tune a Day books. I probably retain a hazy memory of the basics. I confess I've never had or felt the need to read notation when playing bass in any context.

I had a (very) few lessons on the saxophone when I was a youngster, didn't feel I got anything that useful from it & I pretty soon concluded that I was better off going my own way with musical endeavours. Then discovered Bass.. Being the punk era of course helped tremendously on the basis you could go out and "do it" anyway.. 😁

Well I've got short stubby fingers and relatively big thumbs, an old girlfriend once said I had "monkey's hands".. Charming eh... 😁

No idea what model Wal it was, doubtless the cheapest most basic they did, (second hand of course) just regular fretted passive (I think) 4 string thing, all plain black, I just thought it was absolute rubbish, it's the one bass that really sticks in my mind as hating it! If you are slinging a 6string fretless, then I doff my hat to you sir! 👍

I suppose if I had to choose a preferred type it'd be more of a chunky baseball bat neck, but I'm really not fussed, if you shove a bass in my mits I'll get the hang of it whatever. Thinking back the only bass I really hated, the neck / fboard in particular, was a Wal. I had one very briefly about 1981 and got rid of it pretty sharpish..

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Good effort guys... 😁

Dunno about slim or shallow, but I once bought an Aria Rickyfaker that some mug had stripped the paint off the back of the neck saying "it makes it play faster" WTF was my thought on that. Luckily I managed to repaint the offending area with a rattle can nitrocellulose and all was good. What the 'ell is a "fast" neck anyway.. beats me??

Top man.. 👍 Definitely do it on banjo OK...!

Hmm.. I recently scored a basic Squier P (pj) bass that still had the cling film on everything Inc the machine heads and PUs.. It clearly hadn't been touched from new. Now this thing ( which I bought mainly as everything else I have is currently disassembled in bits) is excellent IMHO and sounds great exactly as is. I'm not mega fussy or detail obsessed but the neck, frets, general build etc etc are absolutely fine and fit for purpose, again IMHO I didn't even have to drop the action or do the intonation. I've gigged far inferior basses to this in the past hundreds of times, including "names" that didn't play or sound nearly as good... pity instruments that go as well as this weren't available as cheapies back in the 70s when you were looking at the nasty short scale Woolworths jobs as a "starter"

She's great.. A Karen Carpenter for the apocalypse...😁

I'd think they have to accept returns as it's a sight unseen purchase as above regulations .. why not give them a ring and say you'd be interested in buying X item but need to have the return option, with no arguments in the "unlikely" event that it doesn't suit, can't see how they can refuse tbh..

I've really tried to like the Jazz bass over the years, but just can't seem to fancy them at all.. I've had versions of them a few times Inc a pukka 70s one long ago ( which was horrible) also including various Squier permutations, I always rapidly think "Nah.." and get rid of them.. Tbh the only one I really did like was pretty much the first full size bass I had (and used in a 'proper' band) it was one of the better, tho not named, MIJ 70s copies.. black with a maple neck and black block markers, may be just romantic hindsight but that one was great! Unfortunately it didn't actually belong to me, and was a kind of long term loan from a mate... although he wasn't really a player as such, he ultimately wanted it back so that was the end of that one.

I'd completely forgotten about them, just listened to a couple of their things on YouTube... daft name, but they had some quite good tunes I suppose

The old hand brace is a very useful tool I've often found and I'm happy enough using it here ( this one I actually bought new back in the 80s! ) the drill bit has a lil' screw in the end that pulls the cutting part into the wood so as long as you start right it should go where you tell it. Like you say the holes aren't deep enough to go wonky really.

I have got a very small pillar type drill, the "table" part is only a few inches square and you wouldn't get anything like a guitar body under it unfortunately. I should be OK with the hand drill as I only need to go about 4 or 5 mm down and as long as I start the drill "on target" it shouldn't go adrift. As mentioned I did try an experimental version on the old discarded headstock in order to see how it'd work on the same type of wood, which seemed fairly encouraging anyway, we'll see.. 🤞