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[quote name='RhysP' timestamp='1376485720' post='2174637'] If you're going to get one I'd say precision with flats & the tone rolled off. Personally I'd avoid the acoustic guitar/fretless bass thing like the plague as it's become incredibly cliched but that's just me. [/quote] How is that a cliche?

Precision with flats Jazz with flats Upright EUB Semi with flats ... any of those will work.

[quote name='Dingus' timestamp='1376455868' post='2174123'] ... My beliefs are immaterial ... [/quote] In that case you might have put less time and effort into explaining your beliefs to us.

When I bought a Lakland bass directly from Lakland in Chicago, I was told by them that a hardcase was unnecessary and nor would they bother with insurance because damage was so rare, even on transatlantic flights. The bass, in soft case and cardboard box, arrived undamaged.

[quote name='Bigwan' timestamp='1375281356' post='2159223'] Very nice - for some reason I thought the freeman precision was white. [/quote] I think there's also white. By the way, who is Matt Freeman? Ah, hang on Google is my friend.

Is it a Matt Freeman?

[quote name='sk8' timestamp='1375189350' post='2157849'] its heavier. Badass II, Seymour Duncan SPB1 pup. I think its the blue sparkle and mirror pick guard that really make it sound unique. Its really hard to explain but it just sounds and is more P than my MIA P [/quote] Does it come with the flatwounds?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK4REjqGc9w

[quote name='bassman7755' timestamp='1374949803' post='2155194'] Not really, just get rid of the black keys and have 11 white ones per octave [/quote] You're missing that seven white keys and five black keys is already the simplified version.

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1375115438' post='2156875'] It's a mug's game to buy what [i]XYZ[/i] plays and expecting to sound anything like them. [/quote] But when I bought a Tony Franklin Fretless Precision I had no desire or expectation to sound like him because I had never even heard of him.

[quote name='neepheid' timestamp='1375133473' post='2157191'] I thought so, I wasn't sure if it was the lighting in the photo though so I didn't want to say for definite. [/quote] You might be right, white can look any colour under the correct lighting but I had always assumed it was a red one.

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1375094045' post='2156536'] Personally I wouldn't condemn a shop based on one reported bad experience. [/quote] Here on BC, I often see one shop or another praised to high heaven for its personal customer service when I know i've been let down by the same shop. Sometimes it's the other way around and a shop is being slagged for being useless when I've had excellent service.

[quote name='neepheid' timestamp='1375107103' post='2156738'] Also as alluded to earlier, I knew I'd seen him with a white one which is unavailable to Joe Public - here he is, the flash git : Photo by David Sidle - [url="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tanager22/"]http://www.flickr.co...otos/tanager22/[/url] [/quote] There's a red one too.

[quote name='Dr M' timestamp='1375101245' post='2156655'] The thing is, different companies treat signature models in different ways ... [/quote] This is right; not all so-called signature models are the same kind of thing. For example, the Epiphone Jack Casady Bass (which was based on the Gibson Les Paul Signature Bass) is not just a different finish version of a bass which is already in production. It's a model of bass in its own right. Quite a few people here own or have owned a Fender Tony Franklin Signature Fretless Precision. I doubt very much if any of them, certainly not I, bought one because of (more likely despite) Franklin's name on it. It remains the only stock unlined fretless MIA Precision. The now renamed Lakland signature basses were not quite the same kind of thing as a signature from Biffy Clyro or Blink 182 or even Rush.

[quote name='Lowender' timestamp='1375064636' post='2156315'] To the point -- I think using a signature instrument is as lame as being a member of a celebrities fan club or having Star Wars bedding. [/quote] That's particularly true of the Gibson Les Paul, of course.

[quote name='Roger2611' timestamp='1375039936' post='2156085'] I have put Fender flats on both My Precision's and my Precision Lyte I really like the sound but I am not entirely convinced with the feel of them, if I try to slide on the strings it feels like if I go too far the heat generated will give me a blister...does that make sense? Anyway I have another set ready to put on my fretless but I have held off because the idea of the fretless is to be able to slide into the notes, I am not going to want to be sliding round on these strings if it is going to cause blisters. So I am a bit unsure at the moment [/quote] Less pressure for a lighter slide and less friction burn.

Here we go again.

[quote name='BILL POSTERS' timestamp='1374920298' post='2154762'] Oh yeah, ALL cars rusted in the 70s not just BL & Lancias. [/quote] You could pay extra to have your new car 'undersealed' but they still rusted.

[quote name='bagsieblue' timestamp='1374907638' post='2154602'] ........seeing pictures of basses disassembled in For Sale adverts. [/quote] Would you prefer to buy a fake?

[quote name='Coilte' timestamp='1374858909' post='2154199'] They look like TI (Thomastik/Infeld) jazz flats to me. [/quote] Thomastiks are red silk at both ends.

[quote name='Jus Lukin' timestamp='1374654201' post='2151262'] Or an Elton John tribute called 50 Shades of Ga... nah, that's not appropriate. [/quote] It's been done several times already:

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1374843215' post='2153956'] We have been here before haven't we? [/quote] We're here every few weeks. Basschat at its pointless best.

Excellent.

I used to find that getting a setup was risky because whatever you ask for you get what the guy himself considers to be a good setup. A bit like a barber who gives everybody the same haircur whatever they ask for.