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Spector Club - Part 7

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JPSBassist said:
I've seen some factory basses this way. Pedulla usually does it the way you have stated with their lined fretless... but I've seen a factory done lined Pedulla that was done line my bass. So perhaps that was a special order.
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I'm not really up on Pedulla basses and all of their models, but a friend has two of their Pentabuzz basses (lined fretless 5's, one PJ and one JJ). FWIW, the side dots on his are just like as if they were fretted.
 
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PhatBasstard said:
I'm not really up on Pedulla basses and all of their models, but a friend has two of their Pentabazz basses (lined fretless 5's, one PJ and one JJ). FWIW, the side dots on his are just like as if it was fretted.
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Yeah... every one that was a lined fretless I'd seen had been like you said, like a regular fretted bass. Then I met a guy with a factory Pedulla lined fretless and it had the side dots on the fret lines like I had my bass converted. And it was a new bass at the time; he'd just gotten it.

I didn't think to ask if he had requested that. When you look at their website I think he must have. But it was a factory job. Go figure.
 
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JPSBassist said:
Yeah... every one that was a lined fretless I'd seen had been like you said, like a regular fretted bass. Then I met a guy with a factory Pedulla lined fretless and it had the side dots on the fret lines like I had my bass converted. And it was a new bass at the time; he'd just gotten it.

I didn't think to ask if he had requested that. When you look at their website I think he must have. But it was a factory job. Go figure.
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I can maybe see the logic in it if, for some reason, on a factory lined fretless the line markers are not extending over the side of the fingerboard like the side of a filled fret slot (or maybe covered by binding).
But most factory lined fretlesses seem to do this which would seem to make moving the dots illogical at that point.

Going back, your filled slots/lines don't seem to be extending/visible like normal to the the edge of the board. Did your luthier cover them some how? The frets slots have to be deeper than it looks on your bass.
 
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PhatBasstard said:
Had this done to an old NS2A about 10 years ago (Sorry for the crappy pic. The spot at the 12th fret position is a light reflection). He replaced the whole board with a nice piece of ebony. I liked how he made the end of the fingerboard kind of mirror the upper edge of the headstock.

He also fashioned the "yin" pickguard as this, like all NS2A's, had passive Select/Spector PJ's that I replaced with active EMG JJ's and I had to cover the excess route from the old P pickup.
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Very nice Phat!
 
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@ JP...you mentioned that your luthier custom made you a brass nut for your NS-2...I'd seen a couple for sale on eBay between $8.99-14.99. Are brass nuts generic or do they need to be customized per bass model? A friend said they're not hard to replace. Just use patience.
 
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JPSBassist said:
There is a real logic to this... You can get "P" pups in a soapbar shell. I've never tried them personally, but I know they are available.

Now... mere mortals? I'm not sure what that means...

I will say that ALL of you have the same access to PJ that Mike Kroeger does. PJ manages sales and customer support for Spector. When you send an email to customer service, you're sending it to PJ.

And NO ONE has access to Stuart really. He's too busy building guitars and running the workshop and factories. He's the nicest, most gracious guy you're gonna meet... but he's super-busy. PJ runs interference for him.

Spector (the company) as we all know it and love it is a result of both Stuart and PJ's hard work together.

I have to admit that the USA basses are very expensive. And if not for my employee status and resulting discount; I'd not be able to justify affording one. So this is a good point. And I have to say that the Euro models are so good, so well done, that the differences (in my opinion) are few enough that the price on the Euro models represent the deal of the century as far as I'm concerned.

Which I guess comes down to the fact that the USA models are truly "perfection"...

My NS-2JA-R had a bunch of rough frets on the bottom side of the neck, or the side or the neck that faces the ground when playing... and I had to sand them to get them smooth.

There are finish imperfections in my high gloss Euro4LX-Classic and there are none in my USA NS-4... And the brass/gold bridge of my Euro model is wearing through at the corner where I sometimes rest my palm (when playing with a pick... hey! Give me a break... I was a guitarist for two decades before I saw the light and switched to bass)... The bridge on my USA shows no sign of wear what so ever...

There are differences. And they are subtle, small, but they are there. And then comes the knowledge that my USA bass and USA guitar were actually made by Stuart, and the sections that were not directly done by him were done with his close supervision... and they are signed like works of art by him.

All of these things make the USA models special. It is up to you as a player, as an individual as to decide do these things justify paying twice what you could pay for an instrument that I honestly say is 80% what the original USA models are.

For me... the answer is yes. But for many it's no. And that's why I'm glad we make the Euro line. They really are incredible instruments for the money.
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Wow...nicely said and well put JP. SOME day I'll see a USA Spector Bass in my coral. :D
 
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