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Dead spots are a natural thing to do with the natural resonance of the wooden neck .... Placing heavy clamped weights on the headstock will shift the resonance of the neck in your favour....hopefully so that all the useable notes are not fighting that frequency. Ridiculous neck dive is inevitable.

im sort of at the same place as the op.... i was a bit shocked that the stingray neck for a 4 comes without peg holes drilled?? i was hoping to do the neck swap myself but i would be a bit spooked about drilling those holes in the right spot. Surely status could drill those for the customer if they requested it? Also the nut ...does it even come with one?

apart from the cool factor i cant quite see the point ...the shorter strings just dont sound that great unless your just going for some kind of wump ...the low e especially is quite unmusical... i learnt on one in the 70s which is what they are great for but couldnt wait to get onto a long scale.

I haveI just cured the severe lack of mwah on my g towards the nut end.... I clamped a weight onto the headstock and it's now singing. But It's now a neck dive ...ok for studio takes. I did this after reading up about the bad finger ....but this is pretty poor for a CS fretless ....you would have thought they would have created a neck with a different period of resonance.

[quote name='WalMan' timestamp='1361112406' post='1981169'] It has history Originally when I bought it secondhand (but I am pretty sure virtually new) it was a single pup passive Pro1, Volume, tone & a mini coil tap switch plus jack out on the tear drop control mount Then I got a Wal cover from Pete (amazing considering when I was looking to replace the bridge I would have had to take the old bridge off & send it back before he'd send the replacement) anyway got the Wal cover, Kent Armstrong made a pup to go inside & my local go to guitar man fitted it back at the bridge. The tone became a second volume as I tended to just run it full on anyway. It would have been this configuration for this video. Finally in '96 I took it up to Pete @ Wal for a general overhaul, but was shown another Pro1 like mine being retrofitted with Custom electrics and got that done instead, replacing the Kent Armstrong pup for a proper Wal, adding the updated all string tree (rather than the tree that only covered the A & D originally) and moving the jack to the edge along with an XLR out, that got used when I was having trouble with an old Trace combo cutting out at gigs, so I kept an XLR to the desk at hand and used it straight to the PA more than once to great effect. The controls went onto an enlarged panel and there is an access plate on the back for the micro switches & battery. Controls are the standard Vol with pull pick attack, sweep & 2 x tone with pull switches that narrow the tone Q IIRC. And that is how it remains to this day. My baby It was always a pretty solid sound as a passive but adding the actives opened it up to something else altogether. I was told by Pete that the original passive Pro1's were always intended to have the retrofit available to add at a later date, but I would never have known unless I had arranged to go up that fateful day in '96. [/quote] wow..what an interesting story.... i also heard that bit about pros being upgradeable... but i bet there are hardly any that went through with it..... thats wall is rare to say the least!

[quote name='WalMan' timestamp='1360853996' post='1977457'] I do indeed have the Wal, though it morphed from the original Pro to Custom in '96. Still playing with the drummer & guitarist too. [/quote] thats an oddball wal ....its a pro ...but with two pickups ...was it active??

The bassvi if you want to get the cure new order cocteus type sound will rely heavily on the original bass vi strings. ....I nearly gave up with my musicman vi using their own eb strings tuned e to e because the strings especially the low e was so loose dull and toneless that it was unmusical. When in desperation i tried the fender bass vi strings ....well it was a revelation......it sounded exactly like a vi in every way. The 80s bass vi sound is definitely all about the strings....I view this pawnshop offering as a totally different animal if it can't take them.