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The NS series are US made, hence the Czech ones having Euro in their name (except the ReBop of course). [url="http://www.spectorbass.com/NewFiles/usneck.html"]http://www.spectorbass.com/NewFiles/usneck.html[/url]

Yeah my '96 is a bit grubby - looks even worse when you take the strings off. The dirt does seem engrained into the wood, thus I feel the very light steel wool might be the only option.

The Stingray 2EQ I find well suited - it doesn't distort the natural sound of the bass only accentuate it. I've played a few Ibanez and been impressed, especially the SR505. The EQ on that was terribly powerful..

Oooh very nice Gwilym, what's the top ?

Here's my defretted Yamaha RBX775..

Dawsons is a bit dull. Expect standard Squier/Fender/Peavey/Yamahas and if you're lucky a couple of Stingrays. SC in Salford is definitely the best around however isn't walkable from the city centre - can't really get there without a car. Don't even bother with Forsythes, they'll probably have a bashed up dusty Squier Jazz at £220 and that's it.

I've played that Buzzard ! It's a tone monster - but that neck would be a handful for anyone.

Beat me to it ! I got my Stingray plate from there. It was a VERY tight fit at the neck pocket, took some persuasion to go on but it's fine.

My RBX775 has a fairly thin and shallow neck at the nut, it gets reasonably wider nearer the top frets and isn't too chunky anywhere. The BB614 I had felt fairly similar to a Precision.

Stunning. One hell of a piece of maple.. when we get soundclips ?

I got my Spector Q6 Pro from SoundControl on interest free finance. Paid it off on time and all was well - £330 in total. If I hadn't have paid it within the 12 months then it would have automatically begun a 3 year plan at about 30% APR that would have made the bass cost around £600. Be aware.

The bridge cover certainly isn't something I'd expect to see on the V940.. As long as you like it .

Headphone amp is a must - the walls are pretty thin.

Spector Q6 Pro. I sold it because I wasn't advanced enough to make use of the higher strings, I feel now I would. Only thing that doesn't maks me feel better is that I got what I paid for it when I sold it.

I played a Euro 4 Zebrano the other day. Felt very nice - sound wasn't my thing but other than that a very nice bass. Very well put together and I think good value (compared to US Fender / Musicman / Warwick).

Stringbusters once sent me a 5 string set when i'd ordered a 6. When I rang to point out the mistake they did send the correct set immediately and came the next day, along with an SAE to send back the 5 set. Stringsdirect have always been 100%, although a little pricer on D'Addarios (which I use).

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I played a Buzzard LTD in black today at Birmingham Sound Control, the neck was HUGE, gave me cramp pretty quickly. Sounded absolutely awesome though..