Fair enough - an ill-suited neck, however well made, makes an uphill battle out of bonding with any instrument.
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Show me your unmodded cheapie.
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Fair enough - an ill-suited neck, however well made, makes an uphill battle out of bonding with any instrument.
Yep, I'm a lightweight slim neck geek.
You'd love that Fenix - the neck is only 20mm front to back at the first and 21mm at the 12th. Possibly the shallowest neck I've ever played. I bought it with half a mind to fix and flip it but having made it playable it is fast becoming a guilty pleasure
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$100 save from Goodwill. Can't resist a reverse p.
Sounds and plays way better than the bill I spent on it.
Not modded, but the tone mini-pot was wasted and it looked like someone just grabbed a hand full of wires and pulled them out. Wired up with single volume and tone for now, as I don't have any on hand and a full size pot won't fit without touching the input.
Sounds and plays way better than the bill I spent on it.
Not modded, but the tone mini-pot was wasted and it looked like someone just grabbed a hand full of wires and pulled them out. Wired up with single volume and tone for now, as I don't have any on hand and a full size pot won't fit without touching the input.
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You'd love that Fenix - the neck is only 20mm front to back at the first and 21mm at the 12th. Possibly the shallowest neck I've ever played. I bought it with half a mind to fix and flip it but having made it playable it is fast becoming a guilty pleasure
Here's my slim neck favorite. It's a crappy picture but you can kinda see how slim the neck is.
125.00 Squier V. Tele. Not the greatest tone monster I was expecting, but I’ve been around others to compare with and they really aren’t either
But still. Plays fantasticly
But still. Plays fantasticly
40.00 garage scale Memphis.
Plays ok with new jack, pots, strings ( do repaid count as “modified?”)
Plus an hr of cleaning all the skank off of it
Plays ok with new jack, pots, strings ( do repaid count as “modified?”)
Plus an hr of cleaning all the skank off of it
Jaco didn't even need oneSid didn't have a jack
Paid thirty five dollars for this. Was missing a B string and tuner. $10 for a used set of tuners and a B string for my old take offs and viola'! My new travel/camping bass. I spent $200 on ATA case to fly with it (or one of my other basses). It's one of the few passive basses I own. Here is the bass and me performing with it at the Bird Cage Saloon in Prescott, Arizona.
1984 Ibanez MC888-BK "Bean Bass". I picked it up from at least the second owner for $500.
I originally went looking for a Roadstar II, which is what I played back in high school... but I happily found this instead.
Upon playing this beauty, I abandoned my search for the Roadstar. This has such a great growl.
I originally went looking for a Roadstar II, which is what I played back in high school... but I happily found this instead.
Upon playing this beauty, I abandoned my search for the Roadstar. This has such a great growl.
Here's my slim neck favorite. It's a crappy picture but you can kinda see how slim the neck is.
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I was thinking the other way. Difficult to really shown on a 2D image, but...
The nut is a full 1.75" but it feels like playing air guitar.
One of my primary gigging basses is a stock Squier VI, with the stock strings, now probably 2–3 years old. No mods needed to make it a great sounding, great playing, reliable, solid gigging axe. Squier is turning out perfectly good quality these days (at least most of the time IME), and I got a great one. I know how to set up Jazzmaster/Jaguar-type instruments very well, and that's all it needed. Plus I actually like the stock strings, with their floppy low E. Using the flop to your advantage is what the VI is all about IMO.
I will only ever change things on this bass as they break over the years. So far, that's been nothing.
I don't need to show it to you, because it's just a stock Squier VI. We all know what they look like.
I will only ever change things on this bass as they break over the years. So far, that's been nothing.
I don't need to show it to you, because it's just a stock Squier VI. We all know what they look like.
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Grote Hofner club bass clone. $200 off Amazon, all I’ve done to it is slap this vinyl racing stripe on it and file the nut slots to fit the roto 77s on it.
ATK300. Got a great deal. No mods (yet). Thinking about putting Grover Titans on it. It did need new strings, though... Boy, did it EVER need new strings! 
The Bar Band Bassman
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