Paolo85

So, the bottom line: this bass looks horrible and rattles, but it sounds good, it has a good fingerboard and it's cheap, so if you want to check if fretless may be for you for the cost of a set of strings, this could be a good option. It's pickup only from Bromley so if you you'd be able to try it. Strings are great LaBella tapewounds that cost more than the bass. This is (was) Fazley PJ fretless. Those are decent basses, you can read commentary here Mine cost me £85. It was good but superheavy. I play standing exclusively and hate heavy basses. At some point Fazley cut the price to £50. I was not smart enough to realise it was because they were going to discontinue them. So I thought "ok, resale price is zero, let's try to make it lighter, it may be fun". So I chopped the headstock and started drilling holes in the body (this was inspired by somebody else in BC, when THEY did it, it looked neat..) To fit the smaller 2+2 headstock, I fit tuners from an Ibanez. Now there is a rattle around the hesdstock. I doubt it is because of the neck break angle as it continues even if I hold the strings past the nut with my hands. My impression is that something is wrong with the tuners. Still, the rattle does not get amplified, maybe just faintly on a bad day. Other issues to note are that there is alluminum tape under the bridge (the grounding is still there working fine) which I put there to lift thr bridge as the pickups were too close to the strings. There are bits of painters tape on the body that got a bit sticky, I'll try to clean before the sale. One of the neck screws is not the original one. There are some screrches. And there is a black metal plate drilled in at the back which I used to hold the bass as an upright for a few days (long story). Also, I sanded and refinished the neck with tru oil and ot was a sloppy job. I am aware I should be ashamed of putting this on BC but I need space, I have given up on fretless and don't see this changing anytime soon as I now play guitar more than bass. And I don't want to deal with nutters on eBay Pics in the next post

If I was at all interested in another P bass at the moment, I would buy this beauty 100%. It is beautiful, the headstock design makes more sense than a Fender P's, it is light, and sounds like a good P.

I appreciate the good advice but please do not worry about me Maybe I should clarify that it's not like I have been playing this for 20 years non-stop. I bought it when I was 18 to replace an Ibby I was not fully getting along with. A year later I had to stop playing because tendinitis. The bass sat in my parents' flat in Italy for the best part of 20 years. Then I started playing again a couple of years ago and I brought this bass in the UK after Christmas 2022. I have loved playing it. Learnt some funky Jamiroquay lines on it, it sounds great and it's lots of fun. But at the end of the day, I hsve discovered I am a P bass guy and my P bass bitsa gets 90% of the playing time. Now if I were to move to short scale (I have bought one with split coil at the neck as that's the sound I go for), this Cort which is a hell of a bass for the price, risks spending another 20 years without being played much. Which IMO is wasteful and even a bit sad. If it does not sell at a decent price I'll consider donating it.

You are probably right but I see this as a good exercise in letting go