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I'm looking to build something special and would like a Status neck for it. There aren't any dimensions on the website for the necks so can anyone tell me if the jazz necks are 37mm, precision 41mm and if they would correspond to Fender necks - eg modern C, shallow C etc? or are they completely different? I can go between different necks no problem but struggle with super slim Ibanez necks so just want to get a feel for what they are like before picking.

I tried about half a dozen websites but couldn't find anything for 13th August

The closest I can find is that one of my favourite basketball players of all time, Magic Johnson, has his birthday the day after me. On Mother's Milk by the Chilis there is a song called Magic Johnson which features a bass player of some description

"Highly sort after" really gets on my onions

There was a band on the go for years called Hugh Reid and the Velvet Underpants. I used to play in a Sabbath Tribute band called Mac Sabbath but the name that always made me laugh was Slack Babbath.

I'd agree with the points above. The finish is incredibly good but the sound isn't very good. I think they've tried to fit as much as they could in there to a price and unless you wanted to upgrade components then you may ( or may not ) be disappointed. I briefly owned one before sending it back as it was easily the heaviest bass I had every played in my life. i generally don't have an issue with heavy basses but this thing was so heavy it was uncomfortable as soon as I put it on. The preamp was either fizzly treble or muffled. I just couldn't get eanything that I wanted out of it This was the one that I had

And some lemon oil on the fretboard 👍

I used the previous version of these called Spacers if I remember correctly in the early 90s. Show them a plectrum and the black stuff would flake off. Needless to say I only bought the one set

For years I used Comfort Straps and anything padded with neoprene until I got one of those cheap, thin Fender straps. It was when i was watching an old Queen concert and noticed that was what JD used so I thought I'd give one a try I can't understand why they feel so comfortable given the lack of padding and the narrow width but I can use them happily for entire wedding sets.

I went into my local DIY shop in around 1990 and asked for a tin of lemon oil. I still have it and I still use it but maybe once every few years if the fingerboard is looking particularly grubby. I actually had no idea what it was until a couple of years ago so checked the label and it's lemongrass oil. My wife hates it, it smells like that perfume that old ladies wear

I had a Melody fretless years ago. I don't remember how it sounded but it seemed to be very well put together

Absolutely correct and who could forget the horn section of d!ck Leakie, Amanda Huggenkiss, Anita Tinkle and former army man Private Parts

Yes it was - with Mike Rotch on keys

Disco Biscuits Mr Jangles VII Tormented Aplenty Seymour Butts & the High Jass Ensemble Doomed to Failure Queequeg Hulk Hogan's Royd Rage Mrs Miggins Pie Shop

Most of my favourties have already been mentioned but one not mentioned so far is the Wanton Song. The first time i heard it was when I found this video on Youtube years ago. Plus it has Charlie Jones playing his clear acrylic Precision

I've got these as well but I would say that they are very balanced as opposed to adding any bass. That's what I like about them whether it be TV, MP3s or vinyl. Would the preamp that you are plugging the headphones into not have a bass control?

Aerosmith's I don't Wanna Miss a Thing - there's a bit on the last chorus where it does the run down and I think that it's the fourth note that Tom Hamilton plays wrong, realises, then moves up a semitone. So good that I do it live as well when we play it

I had a gold bass made a few years back by Warmoth. Gold flake with gold hardware and frets. I may even have had Optima Gold strings on it at one point. Having said that I also have a hankering for a purple bass so it's the colour that I'd go for now

If I'm buying strings as a set then I use 45,65,85,105 but if I am putting a set together then I choose 45,60,80,110 as they are the closest gauges readily available to match the tension. For a 5 string I always try to get a 130 low B in a set if I can The 110 allows me to drop the E down to B if I need it. I always use D'addarios and depending on the bass EXLs, Prosteels or Chromes I've tried really light strings and really heavy strings but these feel the best to me

When I had a Fender acoustic a few years ago the first thing I did was remove the scratchy sounding bronze strings and stick on a pair of Chrome flats. I think that they were 40-100 gauge but could very well have been 45-105. Much better sound IMO and none of that horrible bronze screech

Exactly as per my previous post. When Roger Glover put Jazz pickups in his Rickenbacker, it was still a Rickenbacker. At the end of the day it's whatever you want it to be and if I want to play a Jazzenbacker then so be it.

To further complicate things I would say that these are Jazz basses And this is a Precision

Much the same as me. I still try something different occasionally but most of the time it's D'addario Chormes, EXLs or Prosteels for me. I'd tried hundreds of different strings over the years before I discovered D'addarios and now I don't see the point in going any further now that I've found what I want in a string

Here are a couple I've come up with: