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Maybe it's the ambiguous term "skinny" - my Thumb 5 is the same nut width as a couple of my other 5s from other makers (I can tell as I've put Just-A-Nut 1s on them) so not wide, but chubbier than them. It was more the depth than the width that I was referring to. The old 4-strings have much shallower necks.

I suspect it was Sheriff John Brown, who was going to frame Bob, but it went wrong. How many roads must a man walk down?

I shall have to try and find one then. My 1988 Thumb 5 has quite a chunky neck and all the other Warwick 5s I've played (mainly Thumbs, the odd other one like a Buzzard) have had fatter necks than that. And a Warwick 5 for £500?

Have you got SGC Nanyo on your list yet? If you can find a second-hand one, you'll find it has a lovely neck, is very light, and sounds rather good.

Probably the first MTD, the first Ken Smith, and the Mary Stick. But I wouldn't buy any of them without playing them first, as to me the most important thing is how well it plays - does the neck profile suit me? If not, it can sound like angels singing and I still won't buy it.

But the fives aren't slim-necked, not even the pre-1990 ones. The early fours are though.

Pardon?

Personally, I dislike the material he's produced post-Beatles, and generally prefer Lennon's contributions in the Beatles. But as a bassist, his influence was significant, and obviously many people disagree with my opinions because "Mull of Kintyre", "Pipes of Peace", and "The Frog Chorus" were all hits, to name but three songs that he perpetrated.

If you go for a genuine 70s P, you'll find a huge variation in necks. You need to try a few.

The fifth string has been photoshopped out.

But that's only a way to distinguish drummers in general.

Obviously you're now sorted - for anyone else seeking answers, I use a Tecamp Puma 900 with both a BB2 and a One10 (not at the same time) and it's lovely. YMMV.

IIRC, all the DBE strings I've encountered have had smaller eyelets at the nut end than the bridge end.

Pete Best played all the Beatles bass lines.

For the Marillion tribute band: Line 6 G50 wireless to Zoom B3n, accompanied by a Roland PK-5A controlling a Korg Volca Bass as it's a bloody sight cheaper than a Moog, then into a little Ammoon mixer offering more control than just putting the Volca into the Aux on the B3n. For the originals band and the covers band: Smooth Hound and Zoom MS-60B. But who knows, a Line 6 HD500 might be just round the corner.

I saw Are you getting the headstock reshaped?

Next you'll be saying that you only bought a P to knock in tent pegs...

The problem is obviously you, not the bass. Either play with your fingers or take the knobs off. 😁

Level pegging now. But did I vote for steel or for steel?

People voluntarily use Herpes? Wouldn't touch them with several bargepoles. Nor Yokel, they're shyte too.

Mass per unit length will be roughly proportional to the cross-sectional area of the string, which is derived from the square of the diameter. So 135 -> 145 is a roughly 15% increase, 135 -> 140 is about 7.5%.

My Hohner is natural finish - that way the paint doesn't get chipped (although a bit of lacquer has got knocked off one of the corners. Damn).

You really need to let it go. This way lies madness.

I've got about half a dozen. One suede-backed one for the 10-string, to solve the neck dive, another leather one with bits of metal on it, a couple with dragons on them, one black one with red patterns for the Esh Poseidon (the odd shape means that one of the straplocks has to be back to front), and one which is the same pattern as the bassist in the band I'm in a tribute for always wears.

That falls down when you consider that the voice is an instrument, therefore everybody except someone mute from birth is a musician.