Both. One fretted and one fretless. Problem solved. My work is done here.
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Roscoe Club
- Thread starter JOME77
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I'd go with which ever one has the most influence on the tone of the bass.
Oh yeah. That should be easy. Let's see 2 pieces of exhibition maple.
Uh ........Eeny, meeny, miny, moe ......
Definitely Buckeye Burl with BEM fretboard and Wedge Wenge neck!!! The best sounding, playing Roscoe ever built!! Hands down and I'll challenge any other ZYX out there, title for title!
..... and who started this anyway??
..... and who started this anyway??
Yeah, but your pickups are slanted the wrong way!!!!Definitely Buckeye Burl with BEM fretboard and Wedge Wenge neck!!! The best sounding, playing Roscoe ever built!! Hands down and I'll challenge any other ZYX out there, title for title!
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..... and who started this anyway??
I'm for forward slanted pickups every day, unless the string sequence is reversed. Then ya got to reverse the slant.
That's too confusing!!!
Have any of you flipped a bass and play low string down and high string up? I remember way back in the day I tried to learn guitar licks by Albert King, and for some reason I just couldn't capture that sound. Then years later I realized he flipped the guitar and played loose low gauge strings, but what a player he was and sound he had!!! And the coolest blues voice!!
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My first exposure to "backward slant" pickups was watching a very well know player. He was left handed (and played that way) but played a right handed bass. In order to keep the string orientation correct (B string up next to his thumb) he loaded the strings backwards. Effectively turning a right handed bass into a left handed bass (except the horn was on the bottom).
His bass also had pickups set in a reverse slant configuration. Which was actually forward slant since the bass was upside down and strung backwards.
I couldn't help but notice when right handed players started ordering conventional right handed basses with reverse slant pickups. Some thought they were duplicating his configuration.
See, not confusing at all.
I’ll have to read and comprehend this tomorrow! Too many cranberry juice cocktail drinks chased with Tito’s. 
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The slanted pickups were Jimmy Haslip's idea. The slant keeps his B string tighter in sound and G string warmer. When Keith made right hand models he kept the slant the same direction, effectively reversing their effects. I ordered a bass with the reverse slant after having a long conversation with Jimmy about why he had them slanted the way he did, and was not disappointed.
Changed my build from the regular Old Stock Quilt he had setting around for a few years to this Exhibition Grade #5 and the body is now my preferred Ash. Fretboard after talking to Keith was a really nice figured Zircote.
WHY, Keith!? 
WHY?! Slanting the pups in the opposite direction of Jimmy Haslip's Roscoe..
.. Do you expect us to reverse our strings?
WHY?! Slanting the pups in the opposite direction of Jimmy Haslip's Roscoe.... Do you expect us to reverse our strings?
