LeftyJ

Before the hangman's noose - Devildriver

Eat it - Weird Al Yankovic

King Me - Lamb of God

They can even do a wood veneer in the phenolic resin so it will look like a wooden fingerboard.

Cool, I wasn't aware they reissued the EXB series. Odd to rename it, but also understandable given its resemblance to the popular RG guitar range. Can't go wrong with the SR300e, the Soundgear is Ibanez' "can all, do all" range. Any Ibanez will offer excellent value for money in its price range, so I bet the RGB will be an excellent bass too. Both have thin, flat necks so you might want to try them in person first. The pickup configuration in the EXB is very popular among metal bassists. For death metal and the likes, you might want to consider going 5-string for the added low notes down to a low B. Since you specifically mention your long fingers, you might just enjoy the extra width too. Both models are available as 5-string, the RGB305 and SR305.

Nice, I quite like the simplicity and plain look! 24" scale should be fun too.

Striking similarity to the Status Retro-J model too.

Pu$$y - Rammstein

If you still love everything about the G&L except the neck, you could also order a new one? G&L offers different neck options on their USA-made basses.

Break Stuff - Limp Bizkit

Enter - Within Temptation

RS924. The RS920 is an older and very rare 22-fret version with two soapbar pickups and a different preamp. I stand by my earlier assessment @TheGreek's bass is an RS924 with a new fingerboard, but I wouldn't rule out a factory custom job.

As a vintage Ibanez fan, this hurts my feelings a little bit. This is a very rare bass that's hard to come by in original condition. The 24 fret models from 1981 and later are far more common, and especially the single-pickup models don't pop up often. An all-original MC800 from 1979 is pretty special.

Very pretty! That's exactly what the dots would have looked like, but only the MC940 came from the factory with a fretless ebony board like that. The RS840 and RS940 had maple boards. Unless this is some custom order by an Ibanez endorsee back in the day (Sting? He has famously played several Musicians, both fretted and fretless, 4-string and 8-string, and the bean bass Roadstar basses. Maybe Roadster too?).

If you're absolutely sure it's a Roadster, that fingerboard is definitely not original. All Roadsters had maple fingerboards and had PJ pickups from 1981 onwards. Prior to that there were some older models with the large Musician style brown soapbar pickups. The factory fretless RS940 had an unlined maple board with tiny off-center dots. If yours has an ebony board, it's likely a defretted RS824 (passive, 2V+2T) or RS924 (active/passive, VT + bass + treble, 3-way switch and active/passive-switch). Edit: Yep, modified RS924!

I've been using the Mono M80 flight bag for my Status basses instead of the original Hiscox cases, and I've been very happy with it so far. Build quality is impressive, it's comfortable to wear as a backpack, the padding is very thick and sturdy, the neck is held by a long flap with velcro, the front pocket is very useful with a velcro loop for your instrument cable, and when you don't need the shoulder straps you can just tuck them away in a back pocket. I love mine! It's wickedly expensive for a gig bag, but it feels like it won't let me down easily. I've been using the guitar version for my headless basses.

Could be any Jazz Bass pickup in a custom cover. The best way to tell would probably be to unscrew the pickup window and see what the pickup looks like from below. It looks very nicely and expertly made! I love the silverburst too.

I beg to differ, a good rail pickup works great ☺️

What are you to me? - UNKLE

I usually do. I recently made a small pedalboard with a few basics (tuner, compressor, OD, chorus) but before that I've always just plugged my bass into an Ampeg tube preamp, with a rack tuner on a parallel output, to an EBS head and 4x10. I've always been very happy with that tone, and still am ☺️

Cool idea, I will be watching this thread to see how this turns out. I'm not joining though, because money. And a lefty probably isn't going to happen anyway unless they get enough requests to be able to make a full batch of lefties.

No, these are qartolini's.

Imagine changing chords for the first time in years, and not changing the notes simultaneously! There must be some music nerd in that room thinking "This band sucks!"

Looks lovely, and I love that topwood! It reminds me of olive wood, with those wild grain patterns. Very nice!

I have never had a custom instrument made for me, but I did have some modifications done to factory instruments with mixed results. These were nearly all electronics mods, so easily reversible. The one that comes to mind that REALLY disappointed me was the addition of an Audere JZ3D preamp to my 1975 Jazz Bass reissue. It changed the character of the bass, even with the controls flat (less bottom end with the EQ flat, and slight compression), and added a huge amount of control options that I never used. Being a lefty, the one thing that annoyed me most, though, and which I hadn't taken into consideration when ordering the preamp from Audere, was the controls all worked in the opposite direction of what I was used to, including the pan pot! It worked so counter-intuitive that I absolutely hated the bass and stopped playing it entirely. It's a great bass though, so after sitting in a rack for months I decided to have it changed back to passive, with a regular VVT setup again, but I did have an active bass boost added - because I decided the only controls I ever use on an active bass are bass boost and high cut. It's absolutely perfect now.