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Fender American Professional Jazz neck on a Precision body

I know OP hasn't logged in in a while, but here's the obligatory link:
J Neck P Bass Club

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Ah, excellent. I am also, or at least have at various times been, a member of the P Neck J Bass minority. Reason for this was I wanted to try a fretless Jazz Bass, so I took the neck off my Tony Franklin fretless Precision and put it on an Am Pro Jazz Bass body. It was great, at least for a while. The Jazz neck on the Franklin Precision body was excellent too, nice pickups in that. Of course you might reasonably ask why in the Sam Hill I would put a fretless Precision neck on a J body when I could just buy a fretless J neck. Two reasons:
  1. I loathe lined fretless necks. Either give me no lines (much preferred) or give me lines and dots. I don't know why people (Fender!) think people want lines but not dots. Annoys the crap out of me.
  2. Ebony fingerboard, please. Stop using rosewood on fretless neck, FFS. It's too soft. Who at Fender doesn't know this?
Anyway, all of this is now moot, because I sold all my basses (several Fenders, a couple of Lakland, an Ibanez, a Spector) last year due to being unemployed, except for my 60th Anniversary Jazz Bass. I recently sold that too, but that was so I could buy an octave mandolin and a cheaper Jazz Bass. My adventures in mando-land did not work out and I ended up not buying a cheaper Jazz, but instead I acquired a fretless Warwick Corvette $$. Which I absolutely love.
 
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Great topic. But looking at the photo, I really want to know how you get three cats to eat from their own respective bowls?

That is an interesting question, with a two part answer.
  1. What you see in the pic is dry food that we used to leave out for them to graze on, so no separation was required.
  2. The real answer is: separate rooms. We give our cats wet food at dinner time, and this requires each cat getting shut in a room with their dinner, due to the different speeds at which they eat and their relative appetites.