FinnDave

[quote name='FinnDave' timestamp='1421854670' post='2665825'] My VM Precision was fine the way it came, new set of strings and that's all it needed. I've used it for a couple of gigs and a lot of rehearsal in the summer when I could leave it at our rehearsal room and go there by bike instead of car. [/quote] So much for that! It's now sporting a handsome Mighty Mite fretless neck. [attachment=185282:fretless.jpg]

Cool, calm, and collected is the only way [attachment=185175:7414_1503092049938396_1195149992481501893_n.jpg] [attachment=185177:10646734_1503091829938418_970163191990594850_n.jpg] [attachment=185178:2013.jpg] [attachment=185179:1-10492317_468127139997621_515003428416621827_n.jpg]

[quote name='LayDownThaFunk' timestamp='1425051638' post='2703450'] What gets me is when people say the music of the 60s and 70s was the best, period. That's regardless of age. [/quote] It's probably as crap as any other period, but at least it's crap I understand.

Would anyone know if there is much difference between the SJB-1 and the standard pick up in the MiM classic 60s Jazz?

I'm 57 and haven't really listened to anything 'new' for many years. I don't listen to the radio or watch tv (except for films). Most of the material my band plays dates back to the early 70s or before (long before in the case of the more traditional blues material) as that is what we like. Since Jenny joined us a year ago, she has been trying to introduce some more contemporary material but the rest of the band tend to resist it (including me) as it sits awkwardly with the rest of our set and we simply don't feel it.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1424871913' post='2701390'] I blame that Janita... she's definitely leading you astray... *jealous* [/quote] I can be so easily lead

I definitely need something Class A when I play White Rabbit on my Jack Casady bass.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1424864592' post='2701260'] I know Class A are definitely illegal and quite right, too. This morning I jumped out of the window naked shouting 'The goats! The goats!'. I'm all right now though - some kindly pixies took care of me and lent me a loin cloth made from lovely rainbows and unicorn fur. [/quote] I think he meant amplifiers, could be wrong though.

It's not the sliding I find so seductive, it's the overall sound and feel, plus the wonderful vibrato. Think I'll pop downstairs and have another go.

You're really not helping, are you?

Be careful, it's addictive, I'm already eyeing up the Fender J I bought last week and wondering how it'd feel with a plain fingerboard.

That is a real beautiful job. I just put an unlined fretless neck on a VM Squier Precision and love it, I have two Fender Js and a P, all fretted and a starting to think fretless is the way to go.

My wife is totally supportive of my gigging, sometimes she comes along, other times not, but she never says a word against it. Unlike my second wife who hated the whole idea. Must be third time lucky

Took my 'new' fretless (Xilddx's second hand Mighty Mite neck & my Squier Precision VM body) to the blues jam in Witney this afternoon. Rest of the band insisted I play it (had about 30 mins on it so far) even though I had a good fretted Fender J with me...we played four numbers, most of them fairly up-tempo and funky stuff and played the fretless on all of them. Can go back to fretted now I've crossed the great divide??? Picked up one of my Jazz basses and it feel so dead and clanky compared to the organic feel of the fretless neck. Fretless just feels and sounds so wickedly sexy

[quote name='xilddx' timestamp='1424479997' post='2696893'] That looks damn cool, Dave! [/quote] Yeah, I think so too!

[quote name='andy159' timestamp='1424451445' post='2696514'] i think everyone is missing the obvious reason for the post, and you have put up the wrong pictures too tell us more about the aussie barmaids including their pictures please. [/quote] I'll see what I can do...I wasn't there this evening.

I'm off to the local PMT tomorrow morning for a box of fret nails.

That's true, it is now completely imprecise!

You can't trust anyone these days, I left my Squier VM Precision lying around and some person of questionable parentage has half inched the bloody frets! [attachment=184432:1-2014-03-26 12.35.25.jpg] Still, as the Aussie barmaids in my local say, "No Worries" [attachment=184434:1-2015-02-20 15.50.57.jpg] [attachment=184435:1-2015-02-20 15.52.21.jpg] And many thanks to Xilddx for sending the neck so quickly

Bought a fretless neck from Nigel, good coms, good price, well packed, fast delivery and great condition. Great bloke to deal with, thoroughly recommend.

Whenever I have experienced this imbalance of volume (assuming it has not always been present) I have been able to cure it with a string change.

The Isle of Everywhere by Gong (from the album You). Ah, such memories...