Beedster

Thanks @PaulThePlug, that's the one I'm using also, great idea to share it here though 👍

Good communities tend to share information so I guess both, but first and foremost a community. Some extremely knowledgable and kind people here 👍

I'll update as I go @NancyJohnson, I'm going to do some practice runs on some old wooden shelving getting the technique at least competent if not expert before I maul otherwise completely usable necks, but if you notice a range of headless bitsas flooding the site...........

Seconded 👍

Kudos @bassace 👍

IME it’s everyone but the bass player, who in every band in which I’ve played has not only been hugely talented but a great guy who everyone loved 👍

Lovely 👍

17. Terrified 😕

The SimS PUPs are lovely, as are the basses themselves. Took me a long time to appreciate how to use the PUPs, easy to forget that when you play a Precision you address is differently to how you address a Jazz or a 'Ray, and I've tended to use dead flats on Precisions, zingy rounds on Jazzes and lively flats on 'Rays over the years, plus of course the baked-in tone in a 'Ray circuit is very different to standard active Jazz circuits. I started out with an Enfield FL where so much of the tone is in the fingers, moved to fretted where the differences were more tangible, and now with both I see the PUP switching as pretty awesome bunch of preset options that may not replicate the three basses 100% but provide options way above what you'd get from any single preamp (and of course on both instruments I get to to choose both PUP and preamp settings).

Not too flexible for some styles?

So I have ten basses, 8 of which are projects and two (the Enfields) are staying. All are Fender fit necks/bodies, which makes it a wonderful exercise in mixing and matching to find what works. The maple fretted neck on the third bass up is interesting as it was pretty much dead on an ash body (not pictured above) but sings on the ultra lightweight Squier body it's sitting on now, a body that didn't sing especially well with the block and bound neck, which sings on the Jazz body..... I don't doubt that I'm projecting some of what i hear and feel when I play them in various configurations, and some necks just fit some pockets better than others which will be a factor, but it's bloody good fun finding the right neck for the body, it's Blind Date for basses

The maple neck fretless is 100% staying, the ninja Precision, which has a rather special Warmoth neck, nay or may not...... Took me a very long tine to get the hang of SimS but now I have I can't help thinking they are possibly among the best production basses out there No argument here The David Niven of basses 👍 The body (and the neck), is rather lovely Steve 👍

We are aligned 👍

Gathered together various basses in various stages of construction today, all but two will be heading out (I'll let you guess which two). So many parts, so little time! There's a further two I couldn't be arsed to get out of the pile in the shad also 🤔

Ah man, 15 mins............. 👍

I suspect that he would sound as good whether he's playing a '62 Fender or an Encore, he is great proof of the 'all in the fingers' model 👍

Nice advice, thanks mate 👍

Thanks mate, interesting 👍

Tiger stripe

i had a tiger stripe ebony neck by Warmoth, I’ll dig out some pics. Same feel as normal ebony but very different aesthetic 👍

Anyway, back to the question! Anyone used a spindle sander to fo this?

Yes, and so many more 👍

Took me a long time to get into flats, and even longer into flats on a Jazz, in part because many years ago a guy in a music shop told me "flatwound string sound dead". OK, they're kinda definitive on a Precision and accepted as such, in so many respects they're even more so on a Jazz. Wanna hit some retro heaven? Flats, back PUP on full, front PUP rolled off a little bit, and a pic through an all-tube head. Sorted 👍

And the body/PUPs and neck are a pretty formidable combo, very powerful and focussed, but the full Fender headstock and gaps at the pocket bug the hell out of me 🤔