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  1. discreet
    Yes, and if you have no stage lighting in a darkened room and are wearing black, they won't even tell where all the radical bass tones are coming from!! OR, you could just play a standard P Bass (proven over 60-odd years as the best all-rounder there is) and stop spending your money on basses that sound only slightly different from each other to non-bass players.
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    Why not? It could be matte black all round too, for total stealth...
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    Just have three split P pickups with various switching options. A sliding pickup is going to be more trouble than it's worth, imho. Though it would have novelty value...
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    You could have pickups under a guard though, that would be easier.
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    Oh yes. You gotta love sanding...
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    It self-relics, too!
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    That's a thought. So if you needed to shim the neck, you could instead choose to strip the paint off...
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    And a Boeing 747 uses 90 gallons of paint weighing 550lbs...
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    That's actually an issue if you use say, two cans of paint per refin, then do say, three refins on a body that's already painted and clear-coated... you could end up with the equivalent of ten or twelve can's worth of paint on there... and paint weighs roughly 1kg per litre. And an average can is 400ml, so 10 cans could weigh, er... forty tonnes. Seriously though, you could end up with 8lbs of paint on a bass weighing say, 8lbs... thus a 16lb bass. And if you're refinishing a 70s Fender, it might get silly...
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    You could set that up using tbree split P Bass pickups, presumably.
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    Yes, it's mad. In fact the better the existing finish is, the better the refinish will be. A light surface scuffing to key the paint, careful attention to dirt and grease removal and as you said, you're good to go...
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    I suppose it's down to how much difference you think it's really going to make. Obviously pick up placement is crucial to tone (one of the few things that is, imho), but do you really need to cover the entire area between the neck and the bridge? There are penalties to be paid in complexity, weight and cost. I've found over the years that simpler is better. Any increase in the number of pickups, electrical complexity or preamp options (including outboard FX) just serves to distract me from the business of actually playing. YMMV. Any bass or amp I've owned that features lots of sound sculpting options tend to end up set and forget, so little point in me having the options in the first place.
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    You could probably get away with three - and fit a five-position switch, like a Strat.
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    Of course, you could always stick a Jazz neck on it...
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    Chunky and around 42mm at the nut. Very playable, but it's definitely a P neck. If you're a Jazz bass fan, you probably won't like it much.
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    No P or J or PJ? Wacky, different AND simple..? Er... Wishbass?
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    Now THAT'S interesting.
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    I'd probably use the Herrick 8-Pole and place it somewhere between the traditional P position and the, er... traditional Ray position.
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    A La the Gibson Grabber? Could be very interesting, but the fact that there aren't more of them about makes me wonder if the juice is worth the squeeze... what about just one carefully-placed 8-pole pickup with a multi-option preamp/parallel switching, et al?
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    Wal-type. Or Hayman/Shergold. With 8-Pole pickups and an ACG preamp with filtering...
  21. discreet
    Something with dual humbuckers and a spiffy preamp!
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    Good advice. And cut outside the lines! You can get closer later. Trying to save time results in a smaller-than-usual headstock! Apparently.
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    Just noticed I had 200 plays of the audio clip in two days... all in Japan..?? Maybe someone had too much Sake and fell asleep on the 'repeat' button..?
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    Please do! Come to think of it, I think KB may well have used the Mike Dirnt shape? Though I'm not entirely sure how it compares to any other 'Telebass' headstock. They all look alike to me.
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    How about an audio clip? I'd love to know what it sounds like.
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