Hellzero

I love that hypnotic top !

Good idea @Lfalex v1.1. Here is the link to the website gallery page of the BassLab L-Bow : https://basslab.de/l-bow-gallery/

According to all you say and all you've tried, @Geek99, that's now obvious that your neck has the typical ski jump or heel raising. Go to a luthier and he will fix the problem quite quickly. It can go very fast or take a bit more time if he needs to remove the 3 or 4 last frets, dress the end of the neck, put the frets back, level them and crown them. Don't worry it's an easy job when you have the right tools and know what you're doing.

But you have to live with these political decisions, no matter how deep you put your head in the sand.

And yellow ones.

I needed a fiver set of double ball Steinberger/La Bella. They all were out of price in the EEC. So, I contacted Mark at BassDirect and he did the Brexit maths. I paid £35.42 GBP shipping included for the set, so far so good as I'm supposed to simply pay the 21% of VAT for these goods. The next day I got a message from the Belgian post asking me €27.93 Euros (£23.57 GBP) as customs fee clearance !?! Not Mark's fault for sure even if the declared value was a bit too high at £40 GBP (shipping fee must be included in the declared value, but it was a grand total of £35.42 GBP), but the "you'll pay the same as the VAT is deducted" slogan you see everywhere is a total lie as you have to add that delirious administrative fee and VAT on everything. Some companies like ToneRider, for instance, give you a real all included price and work with couriers instead of the post, which is better and safer price wise. Thanks Boris is all I can say.

While you are at it, why not a fretless section, it could help a lot too, ... says the fretless player. 😉

That Jools Holland and His Millionaires record is not the fretless Pino we all know playing these melodic lines, but just a Pino Palladino playing conventional bass on what sounds like a bad Elton John record. Sorry, but Jools Holland has recorded much better things than that. And concerning those known by the ones who know them Welsh musicians, I doubt Pino was as free as he was with Gary Numan or Paul Young, I mean that melodic fretless bass sound we all know (with or without the OC-2 octaver and CE-2 chorus).

As a Pino fretless player fan too, I never liked the Stingray fretless sound I was getting. I can come closer to his fretless sound with any bass, but a Stingray... That said, Pino was discovered by Gary Numan, listen to I, Assassin and you'll find that all Pino typical fretless sound is already there. Listen this, it may help you not buying a Stingray, but my Ibanez Affirma AFR A104F instead 🤣🤦🏻‍♂️ (that's not me playing) :

How is the one on the left tuned ?

Or even better, the original ones :

LeFay Waran, maybe. That's pointy.

I hope your wife opened the box to check that there's no damages to the NXT. You can put a clip on tuner on the headstock just under the B tuner, like this :

You should be able to control the amount of mwah with the pressure of your finger(s) on the string(s) and the dynamic of your "picking" finger(s)... It takes some time, but it's worth the hassle.

This is this quite well explained here, but not always linked to a bad shimming : https://hazeguitars.com/blog/neck-shimming-and-ski-jumps-the-latest-research

A true pro luthier (but those doing what is mentioned after are quite rare, sadly) will always make a frets dressing or fingerboard dressing under simulated strings tension, which is the only way to have a perfect neck allowing deliriously low action. That's also why the Plek machine gives such awesome results...

As it's buzzing at the higher frets, it may have the typical Fender neck heel raising. A luthier will fix in no time.

Got some pliers, got some old credit cards, got some super glue, got some boat varnish ? Go on, Jaco only needed these.

Calling @Dad3353 !

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6.35mm action at the 12th fret from the fingerboard means a real 5mm action at the 12th fret !?! 😱 We have to reconsider what a high action is and start talking in centimetres... Did Fender supply the arrows too, back in the mid 50's ?