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2 minutes ago, Acebassmusic said:

I had a look and found 3 previous for sale threads with some info in. Neck seems to be a 35" scale. Hope this helps 👍

 

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Thanks for your help, I didn’t use “Perception” in my search as there was no mention in the ad, sadly 35” scale doesn’t work for me, have a free bump though.

Can’t find any previous listing, is it 34” or 35” scale, thanks, Mike.

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.

4 hours ago, Bornin1980something said:

Hang on, Where's the tuner for string number 2?

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.

On 26/06/2023 at 11:16, chris_b said:

IMO you need to change the balance point by extending the button on the upper horn. Replace the screw with one double the length and add a spacer to move the strap button nearer the 12th fret.

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 .

PM’d 

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 !!! 

1 hour ago, Woodinblack said:

I still have one of those wilkinson kits, I need to get round to making a 5 string P bass with that spacing

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.

2 hours ago, velvetkevorkian said:

Nice, how does the 4 string pickup work with 5?

I had a bass with one of those Wilkinson kits, it's a pretty neat idea if you can manage the narrow spacing

The pickup was my concern when putting this together, at the moment the A string sounds a little more prominent than the other four, at home I only have a little ZT Lunchbox to play through, not the best thing to setup a bass, have a rehearsal on Thursday so I can have a better idea then.

  As for the string spacing, that works really well for me, I can only pick with my first finger and use my thumb for damping, the other three aren’t much use these days, the width of the neck and narrow spacing were the main attraction for me.

Here’s some more info, 

Nut width 40mm, string width 32.5mm

String width at bridge 62mm

Std 34” scale, strung with Labella LT flats 

As far as I can tell, the Handcrafted company originated from Canada before moving to the USA, before being forced to close by Fender, started by Alex Lifeson and one other, with input from Geddy Lee.

Having played a 5 string for many years, my then bass was a SEI headless that I thought was my forever instrument, sadly as time passed my arthritis worsened and I struggled with the neck width and eventually returned to 4 strings. However I never forgot the advantages of having that low B brought.

   Fast forward and this week I had the chance to buy an old Status Eclipse only an hour or so away, it turned out to be in a sorry state and while I was mulling over the prospect he mentioned he had several other interested parties, the subject turned to other basses and the advantages of a 5 string, then said, you might be interested in this, I put it together some time ago, producing a jazz bodied bitsa. The body was nothing special “BUT” it had a Wilkinson 4+1 conversion kit, the most incredible neck and a pair of USA emg’s. 
  24 hours later I had transplanted the neck and hardware onto my Warmoth P that was crying out for a decent neck, and here’s the result 

It was only a matter of time !!!!

(Merry Christmas to you both)

I have a problem with nickel strings causing blistering, so on guitar it’s either coated or stainless, on bass It’s always stainless, that’s the only way I can overcome the issue.

I use low tension Labella’s on all my basses except the Jabba fretless which has the lightest gauge Deep Talkin Labella flats on, if this is bass you were thinking of at the Sw bash. Bass Direct were out of stock of nearly all their medium gauge Labella’s for ages so in desperation I thought I would try the lightest DT flats and I absolutely love them on that bass, Bassdirect are by far the best supplier of Labellas, good luck in your quest, Mike.

In my quest to find something light and compact, this came up locally. At 37x32x37 it’s not in Barefaced territory nor as light at 10kg, but it was considerably cheaper S/H. Only tried it out at home and it does seem quite punchy, I’m also intrigued by the speaker which appears to be a twin cone unit, anybody gigging with one of these and how does it stand up on its own ?

In my guitar playing days, I often used Fender valve combo’s on their side to help with cooling, as long as you can elevate it a little to keep the vent clear it will be quite happy.

This was my second favourite at the SW Bash, the build quality and finish is outstanding, it was only beaten by the 8” cab having a little more punch to my ears.

Excellent, something to look forward to at next years SW bass bash ????

My initial thought was something along the lines of a mini “ Barefaced 10 “ style, although Paul’s suggestion of a sloping front sounds like a good idea, perhaps a combination of the two, good luck !!!