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Ah, Dennis Fano! Now I can see his Novo designs in this bass.

Can’t beat a little innuendo and who doesn’t love a little Nigella.

Misty -various artists-

Yes, we'll have to disagree 👍

There's a Scott Devine video you should be able to hunt down on YouTube where he talks about tapewounds on a P bass. It's a few years old now but I did it myself after hearing that and was very pleasantly surprised with the result.

Again, if I’d have stuck an old neck on the precision body I sold could I charge £1600 for it? It’s literally the same principle. The bass may play wonderfully well, but its value evaporates if it’s not a vintage item. Put it another way, if I sold you a 70s bass that turned out to be made of parts. Would you message me back and ask me what I had done, or would you shrug your shoulders and chalk it up to experience? Finally, the buyer is obviously concerned about this. He’s spent £1600 and could have been ripped off, so as someone who is on the board of Citizens Advice I’m professionally offended too!

Thanks Dad3353 Nothing near me (St Helens / Widnes), I’ll go to Liverpool if I can’t find anything nearer. There’s a music school nearby that I will contact this week.

Really? Sale price is not much more than the retail cost of some recent MIM Sig models (DM is £1499), I buy stuff that plays well and sounds good, which is what the buyer appears to have done?

There are far more expert people than me on this forum, @Andyjr1515 of course being one of them, but my experience with a mid-70's Fender neck that I bought following a period in which it had been off the bass (and some recent stresses with a relatively recent Warmoth neck) suggests keeping it at tension is a good strategy, wood is not as consistent and stable a material as we'd like it to be, so reducing the risks is a good shout 👍

Fair point.

We’ll have to disagree on this. The only value in this bass is if it’s a vintage one. The only reason it was purchased was because someone wanted a vintage jazz.

Correct. The neck will not be fitted. It has been fitted and used while it has not been in my possession so it really is what to do with it to make sure it remains in great condition when stored. I am leaning towards fixing it to a body or body substitute, adding a cheap bridge, stringing it and storing in a hard case. I am worried that slackening the truss rod will allow the neck to move more than if it was strung and under the correct tension.

Sold a bass to Steve, very helpful and great communication, highly recommended BassChatter!

Through The Mists Of Time - AC/DC

It's Indonesian built, but the same applies. This is on the back of the headstock if anyone's interested... Probably not 😁 The good thing is Rivolta QC and set them up in Nashville, so a second set eyes once it's left the factory. The fret work is rather lovely, ends all nicely rounded and polished. These eastern factories can really produce quality work if the budget is there. This is easily on par with (I'd say better than) Yamaha's Indonesian builds, and I'm a big Yamaha fan.

That would be my hope.

Tapes are a surprisingly lively string, I have them on both Precisions and a Jazz and they are awesome, La Bellas especially

I have to say I disagree. I’ve met too many people who have completed grade 8 in an instrument and can play a piece note for note but do little else. In the gigging world, there’s lots of trips and hazards where you need to be agile and able to improvise. Learning a bass part is 10% of the gig.

I have a lot of respect for all the folks who post in this forum, sometimes things get lost in translation I suspect Steve 👍

Hi Folks. Never tried Nylon tapewounds. Thinking to put La Bella 50-105's on it but I read they're flimsy, floppy and weak in output compared with the 60-1115's (and other brands). Small guage wire inside the 50-105's I read. Is this the consensus view? Looking for the conventional sound one gets out of tapewounds (not upright-like). I won't under any circumstances alter my original '63 P-Bass (eg. widening nut etc.) so seems 60-115's are out, leaving me w 50-105 if I stick w La Bella. Am I going to regret it?

As someone who has bought a stolen bass from a used products shop before, I get you

I have never seen a 450B like that either. Mine has the chunky heel also. @alyctes is probably right, and the design change (maybe when they started making the DMZ so they can use the same necks). On that particular bass though, there is a lot of damage to the body right where it joins the neck, indeed. It may or may not be related. The neck plate is also much shorter than on mine (again like @briansbrew DMZ).