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Sadly this year hasn’t been the year we planned to have at Wrinkley Towers, so will have miss this one, if there’s any crumble left over, any chance you could pop some in the post !!!! Have a great day everyone.

It’s down on the bridge.

I had to part with my Sei headless 5 when my arthritic fingers struggled with the neck width, I reverted back to 4 strings but couldn’t forget that missing low B. Salvation appeared when I got my hands on a Wilkinson 4+1 conversion kit and transformed my mongrel P bass, the narrow string width won’t suit everyone, but as I swap between guitar and bass the 16.5mm works for me, together with a regular 4 string neck width, I’m back in heaven

Both of my P basses are 1.5 treble, 2.0 bass side at 12th fret, both have a playing card shim in the neck pocket just below the lower screw holes, hope that this helps.

This is similar to what I would suggest, however, I would relocate the lower button, as per the early Warwick Thumb position, this will change the centre of the body “gravity “ and automatically raise the headstock, hopefully my description makes sense .

Take the top off and check all the ribbon connector cables are pushed fully home and secure. A “wiggle test” is always my first check.

Just spotted this, like many I had only met Norm at the basshes, lovely man , please pass on my condolences to his family .

It’s a really well engineered setup, one of Trevor Wilkinson’s early great ideas and sadly discontinued many years ago. I haven’t seen a kit for sale anywhere for quite some time, which is why I bought a complete bass to aquire the necessary parts to fit to my Warmoth P body. The main advantage for me, aside from the string spacing, is that in the trio we play a lot in F and Bflat so I now play mainly around the 6th fret to avoid longer stretches at the first. The only downside is, from the leftovers I’ve now assembled a four string jazz bass that I don’t need !!!

If you can wait until the next bash it will be there to try out or if you’re close to M5 junc 28 anytime, call in and have a play.

Here’s an update, spent some time adjusting pickup height and now the balance across the strings is perfect, also the string width of just under 16mm at the bridge works really well for my aging fingers. With regards to the neck, there does seem to be a lot of smoke and mirrors surrounding the “Signature” brand, all I can say is the quality of fretting is excellent, it’s withstood the pressure of coping with 5 strings for 4-5 years or so, without any issues, also it’s 21 frets with finger board overhang, which seems unusual given its supposed age. Whatever the origin the end result works perfectly for me.

Great news, good that it’s all worked out well for you.