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Sire Korea headless J basses

#21
I'm all up for it as long as it relieves neck dive and makes the bass lighter. Especially how Sire jazz basses are sometimes too heavy and even neck divey. I hope these come into Japan.

Schecter has a headless jazz bass similar to it. Maybe it's a Japan only release.
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Winton said:
I'm all up for it as long as it relieves neck dive and makes the bass lighter. Especially how Sire jazz basses are sometimes too heavy and even neck divey. I hope these come into Japan.

Schecter has a headless jazz bass similar to it. Maybe it's a Japan only release.
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Yeah this was a limited edition for 2024. Still regretting that I didn't get one then.
 
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Naviiin said:
I want one! I've been looking at headless basses for ages because I like the idea, but every one of them seems to have modern sounding humbuckers while I'm a P or J man at heart. This is right up my alley, hope they get a bunch of them to Europe.

Would've kind of liked it if it had some extra wood at where the headstock would be like on the M6 models though. Actually, they could've just taken the M6 hardware and neck, slapped it on this body style and call it a day.
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FWIW - best jazz bass I own is an older Ibanez EHB1000 that I threw some Nordy Big Blades into. Stretches the definition of a jazz bass looks-wise obviously but does the Jazz thing beautifully.
 
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Jazzdogg said:
How well does it work from an ergonomic point of view? Seems like making those tuners easy enough to turn would require far too many turns when replacing strings unless there's a version of a string winder that can work with them,
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On my Lignum headless bass it feels nicer to have the tuning knobs closer to the plucking hand making it easier to tune than if the knobs were over the edge. Turning the knobs feels very smooth and even, not grindy. Definitely an appropriately high end feel to it.

Changing strings doesn't seem any worse than the Status Graphites I used to have. Since you have to pull the string through the allen screw clamp and have it tight when you clamp it down, there really isn't much knob turning to do to tune it up.

Aside from the practical and ergonomic advantages of the top mounted/vertically integrated hardware it has an aesthetic edge too, allowing for true, round body butts. No more arches or notches to access and protect the knobs anymore.

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My main gripe with MANY headless bass guitars is pickups are too close together in most, never being able to sound like a Jazz, which happens to be THE 2 pickup tone (to me and many). I hate the nasality of anything with pickups too close together with a passion, don't care how "modern" it sounds. I'd be all over a cheap priced headless Jazz 5er.
 

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