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This seems almost too good to be true. ive registered, and just waiting for the email. Thanks for sharing!

I agree with that. This looks like a bass that has been owned and modded in a way that suited the previous owner/s. The string through ferrules seem to be a result of fitting a replacement, brass bridge, with that option and the subsequent holes made for that feature, made without recourse to a pillar drill and are, thus, all over the place.

Im not judging anyone at all, play what you like. I try and get it correct but dont aways manage it. I even said in my first post that ive always played it wrong (wrong to how i should play it) and no one ever noticed. It’s just that i made this thread just to point out how this has been missed for decades by those that teach this song etc, not to tell everyone how to play it.

It could also be a dry solder, which is kind of a nightmare to find, so the only easy thing to do do is make new solders everywhere. It's not that long to do, but it's a bit of a pain in the derrière to do.

Of course.

Played a late afternoon gig in Methil yesterday with Blockbustarz Glam band. Ticket sales not great with only 50 sold but with a few walk ins we had a decent enough audience. Not the most enthusiastic but they dance from early on and we had the dance floor filled on several occasions with the floor shouting for more songs at the end. Started 4pm and finished 6:30pm with a 20min break in middle. According to club they are seeing less custom at the moment and last week they put a free band on and the place was empty so not good news. Not sure what's going on there but hopefully they get to grips with it. When we mentioned the Xmas gig on 14the Dec the organiser said it wasn't in his diary but he'll double check and get back to us. We'll give it a week and if nothing from him we'll take another booking. We had to refuse 3 other enquiries for Dec gigs so should manage to fill it. Another club in the next village have been looking to get in on the Glam thing too so who knows. Used the Sandberg VM4, Shure wireless, Keeley Bassist comp and into Handbox WB-100 and the new Barefaced 212 cab. This was the cabs first proper trial as it was a large club with no PA support and it worked a treat. I could hear the cab no matter where i stood on the stage. Hollow stage so the bass does boom a bit even on a gramma pad. The Barefaced cab sounds very similar to my Mesa rig with the Mesa 210 giving it slightly more mid focus but not a lot in it. The tone with an all valve head is just sublime. The fact its a one hand lift with a single cab to a gig makes it worthwhile for me. The one big change to my sound has been dropping the VM4 pick up height a touch. When i was digging in i was getting more distortion than i liked and i have never really been able to nail the issue. Changed amps, cabs but wasn't sure. Using the Barefaced cab which is 1000W confirmed it was more down to the bass. The gig last night proved it has been the bass all along. I tweaked it during the week and its now perfect with some distortion when i really dig in hard. On a more personal note we decided to hit the local McD's and had a Big Mac Meal and i'm still searching for the meat. Apparently 2 burgers in it and i couldn't taste meat anywhere. The cheese slice was thicker than the burgers and the roll was twice the diameter of the burgers. Won't be buying that again. Seriously reckon the burgers were 3" diameter and about 1/8th inch thick. (That's 75mm and approx 3mm for the younger generation) Next week is a new venue for us in Camelon, Falkirk. 2 weeks later we are in Camelon again at our regular venue for a birthday party. Dave

In my experience 'the mixer' is usually the lead singer, who more often than not owns the PA. I feel your pain.

We've found our man.

And here is the Beedster II: An all maple varnished fretless Shuker Precision neck with wonderful rounded edges coupled to (what seems to be a Northwest) two parts swamp ash body (nitrocellulosic natural finish), fitted with two Seymour Duncan SJB1 pickups (CTS pots), Gotoh lollipop tuners and a Fender (slotted grub screws) BBT bridge with threaded saddles. This fretless is fitted with Thomastik flat wound strings and is a real delight to play with an ultra low action and very straight neck (the double action truss rod is just very very very slightly tightened), loads of mwah when needed, but also more double bass tone on the neck pickup with the tone rolled a lot off. So a very versatile bass and, to me, better sounding than all the fretless Jazz Basses I had and that neck is just pure joy to play. Furthermore it's not a relic sunburst à la Jaco like mainly all fretless Jazz Basses... Yes I was having an overdose of these and needed a more sober classy fretless. And even if I'm a Jazz Bass guy, I've always preferred the width and feel of the Precision Bass neck. Thanks Chris! 😊👌🏻

So, played them for a good few hours at rehearsal yesterday, and I'm warming to them. The slight stickiness went pretty quickly and once I was actually up and playing with others, they felt fine - as @Sibob says, like a well-played in roundwound. The sound was great, though - from sounding really toppy and bright at home, they fit really well into an ensemble context, with a really strong fundamental tone. I'll be sticking with them for now (not least because of the price!) but I'd say they managed to improve on rather mixed first impressions.

There are two different schools of thought. I take the view that I’m there to make people listening happy, either tgey or a landlord are paying. My personal level of perfectionism takes a back seat. However l also get the “get it exactly right” mentality

I love it! 🤣. If it was priced accordingly, it could be brought back up to spec? (Apart from the ferrules 😬). Gut feeling it plays nice. Are you happy to share how much you paid for it @ronswanson?

A very long day. Had a full rehearsal, setting up the whole PA, monitors etc. We seem to have a serious problem with the mixer...and a gig on Friday. Otherwise it was a fun day.

Any recommendations for laser cutting steel for a neck plate?

Wow, the soapboxes came out faster than usual for a BC thread 😂 Maybe i should have put this in off topic 😎

Bit of an odd gig last night. The rain maybe didn't help and apparently there was some boxing on and a local music festival. Maybe 30 people in. They appreciated us anyway. Acoustics very difficult to manage and a few times I couldn't hear the guitarist clearly enough which led to a couple of very bad bum notes and a complete restart of one song - I can't actually remember ever having to do that with this band. I need another clip box for the lights. Carrying cardboard boxes across the carpark in the rain doesn't do them any favours, and I really need to reduce the number of trips.

Never too old to learn Rob. Dave