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If it has to be a Fender then for me a Geddy Lee sig. Japanese would be pre-loved, but you can get the US ones new I think.

Interesting, I used to play the violin to a decent standard . Probs why the second bass I ever bought was fretless.

Thanks, very kind of you to say so. I'm not sure yet about samples as I need to work out what I have that I can record with. Secondly I would need written commitment that you wouldn't all point and laugh 😞

That is absolutely brilliant. Well done you!

Hi folks I've always loved the Stingray fretless sound, but they are quite a few quid especially his sig bass, so I set myself a task to see what could be done for not too many £s to get the look and as much of the tone as possible. Here's what happened next... I picked up a preloved DiMavery MM501 fretless as a starting point. Actually a lot nicer that I thought it might be, well put together (even with quite a weird passive set up). Nice Rosewood board, lovely satin finish to the D profile neck and acceptable hardware. Brucie bonus, it weighs less than 8lbs. I acquired a Retrovibe Stinger '77 with the Retrovide AlNiCo MM pickup (wired in parallel for this project) and put it all together. Finally I decided just to spray the midly unpleasant tort pickguard black to save a few quid. I also swapped the original fit rounds for some LaBella LT flats. Here's how it came out. To my ears, and despite my huge talent deficit, I think it sounds pretty good and I am really pleased with the results. If were to do any further upgrades, I think I'd go for a proper new pickguard, some better knobs to cover the nuts on the pots and maybe a nice metal or bone nut. As ever my timing is appalling as my arthritis means I'm not playing much now, but if anyone is interested please PM me.

Just relieved Jacek of the burden of ownership of his Zoom B6 unit. Lovely guy to deal with, excellent comms and the item was well packed and exactly as described. Many thanks for such a smooth tranaction.

Lovely looking thing. Weirdly I have just splashed out £99 on a fretless Dimavery copy of a Stingray that I intend to mod a bit to get to be a rough imitation of Pino's fretless Stingray.

Have you folks seen this range? I stumbled across them the other day... Sadowsky-Metroexpress-21-fret-vintage-m-bass

The ACG Moth is by a mile the most ergonomic bass I have ever played. Check this out for something a little different... ACG Moth bass

I've enjoyed owing ACGs with both the smaller scalloped carve and the more general profile per the Mk1 above. My preference is the more standard carve for reasons expounded by young @neepheid above.

This on evilbay: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/177635234310?_skw=fretless+bass+guitar&itmmeta=01KBQ1RSNA2SAKE57B7HM3YPPA&hash=item295be29206%3Ag%3AikQAAeSwkbto7nWi&itmprp=enc%3AAQAKAAAA0FkggFvd1GGDu0w3yXCmi1cB4xQ2Uk9MV%2FwPEzUPbdX5OGVXsyzO1vpAOf9WBRoX1kNgng3x98jHb3SPLnqZ2%2BxgX8%2FwQn1E2b4UN5sF9ugTZCEuy1lbm9VZFYRNvP7SYThcf%2F2XpY9S6xALNAeIIiccOchPHUSVPiqL6IqJ8sBGXr0Ig8u2CrGHirCiTWNavF5%2BwNfD9ZYJsvXLFZRB77FOOdohUiY9iZOcMmXIxh2E4o82j3yI46LfjV9Bj50Dex%2Bk%2FvAE%2BUd%2FKjkPiPRsEMs%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR_ia4-HdZg&LH_ItemCondition=3000

Love the overall look of this, just not keen on the colour. If you put it down, how do you ever find it? May something that Hotblack Desiato from Disaster Area may find interesting.

I had an RBX270FL and it was a great bass. I had it for years and only sold it when I fell into the ACG rabbit hole and bought a fretless bass from Alan (that I still have).

Just to let you good folks know that Brian (earlpilanz on ebay) now has a template for the V5 24 4-string.

I'm sure that will be coming shortly.

A bit more Pink Floyd than punk maybe? Just my view comparing the bass to the Roger Water sig. bass.

Old but still amusing:

Agree 100% with the OP. It's a message I have consistently given my kids as they were growing and I played them both kinds of music, country and western (kidding). They were fed many shades of the spectrum from full on prog right through to jazz (not that I have much of that), and they took what they wanted from each genre. They now have actually quite divergent tastes which is interesting. The real point of "communion" has been the Graceland album.

I was really hoping that a batt-o-meter measured something completely different 😞

WD do this one. Is this the kind of thing you are looking for? Plenty of colour options. WD Custom Pickguard For Fender Vintage 1970's-1980's 20 Fret Jazz Bass With Custom Integrated Control Plate

Looks like there are some new colours for the JJB-300. Anyone seen any in the UK? Bass Guitar – JET Guitars

Used to be mine, lovely bass.