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[quote name='Dingus' timestamp='1363031871' post='2007385'] ... most bass players and bass makers broadly agree nowadays that a bolt on neck is best .... [/quote] Bolt-on neck is not best on a hollow body.

Never say never because there are set-neck Teles: [url="http://www.fender.com/en-GB/series/special-edition/special-edition-custom-telecaster-fmt-hh/"]http://www.fender.com/en-GB/series/special-edition/special-edition-custom-telecaster-fmt-hh/[/url]

[quote name='gjones' timestamp='1363043378' post='2007644'] Those are the ones I knicked from Haimsey and put on my facebook page to show the perils of smoking. [/quote] I thought you might have knicked the whole collection.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1363031012' post='2007361'] Have Fender ever made any basses with though- or set-necks? [/quote] I don't think so. Even the hollow bodies like the Coronado had a bolt-on.

[quote name='ead' timestamp='1363041508' post='2007604'] I thought I might try a set out. Do any of you fine people have good/bad experiences that are noteworthy? The ones that immediately spring to mind are the Rotos, D'Addriao and Picato offerings, but I presume there are others out there. [/quote] La Bella, Fender, Status, Pyramid and GHS too, and probably others. As usual, they are all a bit different and there's no substitute for trying them.

[quote name='fred8816' timestamp='1362615627' post='2002370'] [size=5][font=verdana, geneva, sans-serif]Does this happen often? I have never seen these type of patterns on a maple neck before, certainly not on a high-end instrument.[/font][/size] [size=1][/size] [/quote] Both my 2006 Fender Precision 62 Reissue and my 2008 Lakland Skyline Decade have these so-called knots showing on the back of the neck. The Fender has three of them. I've never had a problem with either neck.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1363024827' post='2007176'] I still haven't seen the pics. Did anyone copy them? Or are they actually the ones posted by gjones in post #35? Confused [/quote] But they aren't the full set.

I have to say that looks very nice.

Learning two fingers alternating is good but there something to be said for being able to use one finger as well. Particularly on straight four or eight parts you'll often get a much greater evenness of tone using just one finger. I find that my index and ring fingers never sound quite the same, although probably no one except me is going to notice.

[quote name='xilddx' timestamp='1362930282' post='2006321'] Entertainment [/quote] No, I insist that it was art.

[quote name='Jigster' timestamp='1362926274' post='2006237'] This forum really is a powderkeg at times [/quote] Yes, one minute you think you're having a conversation and the next minute someone is saying 'You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!'.

[quote name='Stacker' timestamp='1362921653' post='2006166'] That... is mental! [/quote] ... ah, but is it any good for metal?

[quote name='xilddx' timestamp='1362921618' post='2006165'] All this backstabbing of someone who's not allowed access to defend himself makes me a bit uncomfortable. It's not like slagging off Jeff Berlin or Alain Caron. Inti is a superb player who has a rare combination of technical skill and expressive nuanced playing. He has a very entrenched POV and you won't change his mind however the validity and considered logic or sense in your argument. Leave him alone or join TB and discuss it with him over there. [/quote] Nige, while I have some real sympathy with the point you're making, Inti did pick the argument and then pursue it.

[quote name='Stacker' timestamp='1362919081' post='2006133'] Indeed! Yeh, c'mon, guys, make it easy for us not in the know............. [/quote] There are artists and there are entertainers. The latter are also knows as clowns. Art is good while entertainment is bad. It got abusive. That's roughly the gist of it and the threads all got locked.

[quote name='the_skezz' timestamp='1362918358' post='2006120'] Looks like I've joined the wrong forum [/quote] Not if you are an entertainer.

He had name of Inti at first then changed it to, I think, anitloco, then disappeared.

Excellent, and better than some of the bassists we've had on here.

Sometimes I look at my bass playing equipment. I always carry my hands and my fingers with me and often look at them closely.

[quote name='Hutton' timestamp='1362906103' post='2005906'] A wee side note: One of my favourite albums which I never tire of listening to is John Mayall's 'USA Union'. Larry Taylor plays great bass on the album. Freddie Robinson also plays some very tasty guitar. [/quote] I really like that album too.

[quote name='the boy' timestamp='1362873250' post='2005790'] Always had "something to say" though. [/quote] Typical of the young generation.

Yes.

[quote name='seashell' timestamp='1362861994' post='2005592'] No they didn't - they were too busy singing to put anybody down! [/quote] ... and they were trying to be friendly.

It's alive!!

... it has shuffled off this mortal coil ...

[quote name='haimesy' timestamp='1362856285' post='2005466'] Polyurethane laquer everywhere except front of headstock , which is nitro .. I believe [/quote] OK, I see.