tauzero Posted November 7, 2020 Share Posted November 7, 2020 (edited) MihaDo Fingybass arrived earlier today yesterday. Seems nicely made. Fretting is good, there's a little buzz from playing bottom C on the B string but that's it (and even that might be due to me not fretting the string firmly enough). Chamfered edges, the body extension along the neck gives clearance all the way up the fretboard. Nut clamp is a piece of brass bar with grub screws for the clamp. As can be seen, tuning uses a 3mm Allen key and is very smooth. I think I'll put another strap peg in on the lower bout so it doesn't get scratched up. As can be seen, it has 2 3.5mm sockets - the lower one is the headphone socket (jack socket is switched off when headphone socket is switched on), and I think the one just by the switch is an input, allowing playing along with bangin' choonz. Intonation was almost spot on, just needed to move the bridge a couple of millimetres on the low B side. Controls are volume and tone, as you'd expect, and sound is pretty good. Next thing is some experimenting with effects and EQ. Edited November 7, 2020 by tauzero Inability to read (see also: Squire/Squier) 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc S Posted February 22, 2021 Share Posted February 22, 2021 I must admit, I'm tempted to get one of these too. How are you getting on with it? Are the strings just cut-down? Or are they specialist strings? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreek Posted February 22, 2021 Share Posted February 22, 2021 Newtone Strings can make any strings you want at reasonable cost. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeftyJ Posted February 22, 2021 Share Posted February 22, 2021 Since the ends are clamped behind the nut / zero fret, you can just cut any kind of string to size 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Posted February 22, 2021 Share Posted February 22, 2021 Subbed. Where did you get it from? I see one on the bay for about £300, is that the right kind of money? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tauzero Posted February 2, 2023 Author Share Posted February 2, 2023 Tuning systems for headless basses have cropped up in several topics, so I thought I'd disclose what the Fingy uses. Whipping the wooden cover off reveals this: The cap screws go through washers and a flat load-spreading plate, through the body, and into threaded holes in brass blocks sitting in routed grooves. The strings pass through holes in the brass blocks and the ball ends anchor them. Turning the cap screws with the provided allen key moves the brass blocks up and down the screw, using the string tension to keep everything in place. I haven't yet changed a string (haven't made as much use of it as I should, in fact), so I'm not sure if the ends of the cap screws are butted up to the ends of the slots or whether there are holes at the ends of the slots to stop them moving around. The bridge is a very simple non-adjustable one which could be replaced by something like the bridge part of the Warwick 2-piece bridge if that was really necessary. Apart from the trivial annoyance of inserting the allen key, tuning is an absolute delight - the allen key makes it easy to turn and get the tuning spot on. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemmywinks Posted February 2, 2023 Share Posted February 2, 2023 Might be worth measuring the screws and seeing if you can replace them with something suitable for tuning by hand, like a wing or knurled adjustment screw. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Jack Posted February 2, 2023 Share Posted February 2, 2023 Judging by the latest photos on their website, they now use knurled knobs/wheels instead. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemmywinks Posted February 2, 2023 Share Posted February 2, 2023 Ah well then I'd be onto the company abpout a free upgrade! Always liked the look of these and the Wingbass things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tauzero Posted February 2, 2023 Author Share Posted February 2, 2023 Looking at their Ebay store, they have one with more advanced Guyker-like tuners (for three times the price), but most of them have the same setup as mine has. A couple have more sophisticated bridges, one with a BBOT, another with individual bridge pieces. It looks quite a feasible upgrade but it all seems to work OK as it is. The extra leverage of the allen key and the fact that (like most headlesses) it's a screw thread rather than a worm gear means that it is the easiest and most accurate tuning of any bass, headed or headless, that I've used. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waddo Soqable Posted February 2, 2023 Share Posted February 2, 2023 Most interesting, l like the simple tuning system, something I could probably copy (or at least a version of) and use on a project as I'm on a bit of a headless binge at the mo 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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