The 4-String Circle Is Complete

[alembicfive]

Well after years of playing 5-strings.......I have returned to my roots! After playing a Jazz in a store, I forgot how fun they are. So I bought it! After a couple of minor mods (new bridge and pick guard), man I am having a ball with this bass! Well, since I am back on a 4-string, it would not be complete with a fretless! So here is my new family! Both are Jazz Standards and both kick ass. I just love the necks on these basses, and that Fender sound!! I think my 5-stringers are going to get jealous!

 

[Squidfinger]

I made the same change myself after playing 5's for awhile. I have one 4 strung BEAD and one EADG.

 

[rulyøngo]

The same thing happened to me a few years ago!!! After using 4 strings for years I got a 5 strings and only lasted a year, for me the B string made a fabulous thumb rest... ... I went back to 4 strings and never looked back...

 

[Woodchuck]

I used 5's on stage exclusively for years, but lately I've been digging 4's on stage, so I went a got a Sadowsky Metro 4 for my live playing. I too, had forgotten how fun 4's were.

 

[Dincrest]

Congrats. I'm a born again 4-stringer myself after years with 5 and a year with a 6.

 

[MCT]

My freind and fellow bassist has the exact looking Jazz bass. (fretted). Are those still stock pickups?

 

[alembicfive]

My freind and fellow bassist has the exact looking Jazz bass. (fretted). Are those still stock pickups?

Yep. The only thing major I did to the fretted one is install a Badass II bridge. I'll most likely put one in the fretless as well.

 

[tplyons]

Yep, I did the same thing. Started on four, switched to five after a year or so, played that for a couple years until I fell in love with my ex-Stingray, now back to a P-bass and a Yammie fretless. All four stringers in my stable for now.

 

[keb]

I had a 6-string for about 11 years, from '94 to just recently when it was ruined in an accident. At first I kinda missed it, but it seems I don't miss it as much really. Maybe someday I'll get another sixer (or a fiver), but for what I'm doing right now musically (pretty much just straight-ahead New Wave-ish guitar pop), a four fills the bill (and that's all I have now; my old trusty Rickenbacker 4003 and a fretless made from a Carvin kit.)