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Gathered together various basses in various stages of construction today, all but two will be heading out (I'll let you guess which two). So many parts, so little time! There's a further two I couldn't be arsed to get out of the pile in the shad alsoĀ šŸ¤”

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17 minutes ago, Beedster said:

We are aligned šŸ‘

You sir are a man of exquisite taste. I bet those two are absolute Ɣrsekickers. I've never tried anything with SimS pickups but I'd very much like to.

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5 hours ago, TheGreek said:

Personally I'd be keeping the fretless with the maple neck and the Ninja black P.

Maybe add a J or H to help it kick more bottom.Ā 

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The maple neck fretless is 100% staying, the ninja Precision, which has a rather special Warmoth neck, nay or may not......

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5 hours ago, Rich said:

You sir are a man of exquisite taste. I bet those two are absolute Ɣrsekickers. I've never tried anything with SimS pickups but I'd very much like to.

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Took me a very long tine to get the hang of SimS but now I have I can't help thinking they are possibly among the best production basses out there

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5 hours ago, oldslapper said:

A gentleman is someone who owns a bass with a maple unlined fretless board.Ā 

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No argument here :)Ā 

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5 hours ago, oldslapper said:

I bought this back recently as I realised how ungentlemanly I had become.

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The David Niven of bassesĀ šŸ‘

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5 hours ago, Steve Browning said:

Rather like the look of the fretless at the top.

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The body (and the neck), is rather lovely SteveĀ šŸ‘

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So I have ten basses, 8 of which are projects and two (the Enfields) are staying. All are Fender fit necks/bodies, which makes it a wonderful exercise in mixing and matching to find what works. The maple fretted neck on the third bass up is interesting as it was pretty much dead on an ash body (not pictured above) but sings on the ultra lightweight Squier body it's sitting on now, a body that didn't sing especially well with the block and bound neck, which sings on the Jazz body.....

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I don't doubt that I'm projecting some of what i hear and feel when I play them in various configurations, and some necks just fit some pockets better than others which will be a factor, but it's bloody good fun finding the right neck for the body, it's Blind Date for basses :)Ā 

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3 hours ago, jonno1981 said:

Love the jazz with the two sims pickups in it. How do they sound? Iā€™ve been tempted by these before as the concept is brilliant but Iā€™ve never heard a demo that I was really impressed with.Ā 

The SimS PUPs are lovely, as are the basses themselves. Took me a long time to appreciate how to use the PUPs, easy to forget that when you play a Precision you address is differently to how you address a Jazz or a 'Ray, and I've tended to use dead flats on Precisions, zingy rounds on Jazzes and lively flats on 'Rays over the years, plus of course the baked-in tone in a 'Ray circuit is very different to standard active Jazz circuits. I started out with an Enfield FL where so much of the tone is in the fingers, moved to fretted where the differences were more tangible, and now with both I see the PUP switching as pretty awesome bunch of preset options that may not replicate the three basses 100% but provide options way above what you'd get from any single preamp (and of course on both instruments I get to to choose both PUP and preamp settings).Ā 

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23 minutes ago, Beedster said:

The SimS PUPs are lovely, as are the basses themselves. Took me a long time to appreciate how to use the PUPs, easy to forget that when you play a Precision you address is differently to how you address a Jazz or a 'Ray, and I've tended to use dead flats on Precisions, zingy rounds on Jazzes and lively flats on 'Rays over the years, plus of course the baked-in tone in a 'Ray circuit is very different to standard active Jazz circuits. I started out with an Enfield FL where so much of the tone is in the fingers, moved to fretted where the differences were more tangible, and now with both I see the PUP switching as pretty awesome bunch of preset options that may not replicate the three basses 100% but provide options way above what you'd get from any single preamp (and of course on both instruments I get to to choose both PUP and preamp settings).Ā 

Thanks for the info. Iā€™ll consider a pair of these for next bonus! I love the versatility and endless options. Might go passive only and see how I get on.Ā 

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So following the stocktake I have done some experimentation

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The rosewood neck on the blue Precision (second top) works best on the natural Enfield

The ebony Jazz neck on the natural Precision (top) works best on the 3TSB Enfield

The Status neck works best on the Blue Precision, in fact surprisingly well

The maple fretless neck works best on the natural PrecisionĀ 

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The rest all work very well as they are. Neck body combinations are like rhythm sections, more about magical chemistry than objective qualityĀ šŸ‘Ā 

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Very nice collection! I'm curious how the block'n'binding neck (bottom) would work on the natural P body (top). Would love to see a pic of that combination.Ā  I've recently developed GAS for the fat 62 precision sound and am kind of looking for a bass I can haul around.

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5 hours ago, Beedster said:

So following the stocktake I have done some experimentation

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The rosewood neck on the blue Precision (second top) works best on the natural Enfield

The ebony Jazz neck on the natural Precision (top) works best on the 3TSB Enfield

The Status neck works best on the Blue Precision, in fact surprisingly well

The maple fretless neck works best on the natural PrecisionĀ 

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The rest all work very well as they are. Neck body combinations are like rhythm sections, more about magical chemistry than objective qualityĀ šŸ‘Ā 

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OK, thatā€™s definitely a cue for more pictures......šŸ˜‰

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7 hours ago, Bolo said:

Very nice collection! I'm curious how the block'n'binding neck (bottom) would work on the natural P body (top). Would love to see a pic of that combination.Ā  I've recently developed GAS for the fat 62 precision sound and am kind of looking for a bass I can haul around.

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Will doĀ šŸ‘

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2 hours ago, Shaggy said:

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OK, thatā€™s definitely a cue for more pictures......šŸ˜‰

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Will doĀ šŸ‘

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