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A perfunctory glance at the 3 basses sat on their rack yields that yes, the nut on the offending bass does appear a tad higher than the other two. I'll get the calipers out at some point and measure before I get busy with a chisel. I say chisel as what I'm thinking of doing is popping the nut off and sanding a little away from the underside as opposed to filing string slots. To answer some of the other questions from above - I have a high action on most basses as Im a fairly clumsy player, the jazz has a higher action than the offending P tho as I slap that in a few places. The fretless's action is comparitively low as that's used for more delicate stuff and Im less wont to 'dig in' on it. Chris B - same angle yes, tho I do move them around as required, and the pain is spread across the palm end of the fingers and the centre of the hand as opposed to wrist area, fingertips usually fine. Im finding myself stretching the fingers back between numbers during the set now, which doesn't look to professional in my eyes. Im not getting any younger either so thats also a consideration (44 and been playing guitars of varying size for almost 30 years) re particular songs - yes, we do a rendition of Kate Bushes Sensual World which is all played on the lowest F and its octave and a few notes in between, Ive come to dread it. Ive taken to playing some of the Low F's with my thumb to give a bit of relief to my poor fingers. Its looking like the song is not going to appear on next years set list which I cant say Im sorry about. 'King of The Mountain' gives me grief too - another song featuring the lowest (4 string) F octave primarily. Anyways, all advice gratefully received, and Bluejays wisdom of trying some diff strings prior to wood butchery shall be heeded. The Greek - these Status flats you refer to, can i get them online?

Walbassist - thanks for the string recommendation. Are there any hard and fast rules for discovering what tension a particular set of strings may have before putting them on? Or is is just a case of suck it and see?

Nut surgery it is then! Now there's a sentence I thought Id never write...... Thanks for the replys, didn't think of that, Ill report back with my findings/results once ive got busy with the tools.

Nowt wrong with the Squires. Is it the 'Jaco' fretless? I beleive that one has an ebanol fretboard that I personally didnt like, a matter of personal taste I think. If it feels good to you, why are you asking here? get it bought and enjoyed lad

Ok, Im going to stick my head above the parapet here a little. Lately Ive noticed a bit of an issue with one of my basses, in as much as my fretting hand has been cramping up during shows, quite painfully at times. My band does 2 hour+ gigs ( waits for Blue to call me a lightweight ), during which I use 3 different basses, my fretless I can get away with a very light 'fret' on the board, I reckon i could play this bass all day with no problems. I also use a CV jazz with rounds on, that also doesn't need much fretting pressure. However, the main bass I use is a Squier PJ that is strung with flats, and its this one that is giving me the issue. I have to press a lot harder with my fretting fingers on this than the others, and I can really feel the difference by the time we get to the later half of our show. Im not too clever with the physics of all this, what can i do to make the bass easier to play? Is it just a case of restringing with lighter guage strings? Its currently running my favoured 40-60-80-95 as all my basses do. (Fender flatwounds on this one) Is there anything else I can do? And how come this one needs so much more input than the others?

£365? where did you get that from Jenny? Uprite is something i intend to be looking into when funds allow

The ones that get me started are where there are a million pics of parts/details of the bass, but not a single pic of all of it, or even just a complete neck or body shot

[quote name='spectoremg' timestamp='1446405027' post='2899166'] Coat? [/quote] No, shoes definitely works better. Whoever heard of an orthopaedic coat?

[quote name='KevB' timestamp='1446206063' post='2897679'] The Kate Bush trib featuring our very own sprocketflup is worth seeing too: [url="http://www.cloudbustingkatebushtribute.com/"]http://www.cloudbust...ushtribute.com/[/url] [/quote] Aww, thanks mate. **blushes**

Buns and Toasties

[quote name='colgraff' timestamp='1445981793' post='2895974'] I love the bit where he says that he will post it. [/quote] ....in an envelope

So place your bets folks, how long before we see it listed again

[quote name='Annoying Twit' timestamp='1445591307' post='2892580'] I don't think it would be wide necked. I thought that the general opinion was that part of the modifications that had been done to it were to add extra strings. E.g. multiple strings sharing the same slot in the bridge. If that's the case, then it might be improved by returning it to the original number of strings. Might. I only bid £50 on it. I thought that it would be worth a punt at that price. And, if it didn't look as if it could be improved, I could donate it as a mystery raffle prize for the next East Midlands bass bash. [/quote] Its easy to see how the bridge(s) have been added to with the extra strings, but the headstocks a different kettle of trout. Cant see that one meself. I wonder if hes made a whole new neck for it? maybe from an old section of dual - carriageway perhaps

The Lovin' Shovelful

M & M s

Obesity Rollers

KebABBA

Needs more control knobs and switches I feel. Set the controls for the heart of the sun!

and another to inevitably ask if its any good for m*tal

If I still had my 17.5 lb ( yes that's right) HB jazz you would be welcome to borrow it and try for yourself. sadly it is no more, having reached critical mass and disappearing inside itself

Just had a nice easy pleasant transaction with Tom, enjoy the new bass mate

awesome gig last night at Islington Assembly Rooms playing the Hounds Of Love in its entirety, with help of the London Bulgarian Chior, Members of Mad Dog McRae and Kate Bush's original drummer Preston Heyman. And then everyone getting pie-eyed in the local pub afterward where we joined by a couple more special guests A gig I shant forget for a long long time

Doesn't Michael Jackson own the rights to the Beatles back catalogue? Oh, wait......

[quote name='CamdenRob' timestamp='1442321589' post='2866014'] They must have got away with selling over priced tat much easier in the days before the internet.... [/quote] This ^^

[quote name='LayDownThaFunk' timestamp='1442139977' post='2864576'] You know everything was better in the old dayssss... [/quote] [quote name='MacDaddy' timestamp='1442256667' post='2865586'] Nostalgia wasn't. [/quote] Nor history.