That’s what I have on my Ibanez @eric.kiser
I keep waiting for them to come on sale and then buy a set . They $150 aud here 
To put it in perspective 4 sets would buy me a Paranormal
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No the tape wound strings by either la Bella and D’addario both are around $50 shipped.
But hey, Thomastik are very good too that’s 50% more at about $75 shipped. I had a magnecore on one, the strings look awesome and very well made.
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Me too. I went from a scrawny Ibanez to a fat P, and love it. I bought a Sterling Ray 4, and sent it back because of the skinny neck I was unable to navigate on.
However, I just bought a Peavey Milestone JJ, with a skinny jazz neck and I absolutely love it. So much so, that I’m eyeing another one in a P-bass configuration.
Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis
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Owhhh! Wait til you play something just a little fatter. The stingray 4 is a tad fatter than p bass and the neck through SR4 is a tad fatter than standard.
I kid you not I’m planning to convert my olp 5 strings to a 4 strings. I want just a bit more space on the g string when I bend the string, I hate it when the string fell out of the neck. Lol
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I will make it a point to get to their showroom / retail store here in Huntington Beach very soon, like next few days, maybe even tomorrow (Sunday) if they are open, and I wil play thru their basses alot and give you an honest opinion from what I can get out of just noodling around in their store.
My daughters X Boyfriend just bought a G&L Guitar from that shop (how I herd about the shop), and he loves it. He said he always loved G&L, and even thou his guitar is a tribute, it is impeccable. It really feels like a USA built instrument.
Or a quality built MIJ, or other hight quality companies, but for a import line, it feels really close to the US lines, and they are both out of this world (from what ilttle time I had playin a guitar (not a bass guitar mind you), but it was so nice, it felt like a master luthier just handed it to a top set up guy, who handed it to me, and it was freaking incredible.
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That’d be cool!! Thanks!!
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Its funny you say this, because when I think if. P neck, vs a J neck, or a Stingray neck, etc…. I always think of the classic, first years editions, when the necks were fat as hell, like base ball bats, in the 1.75 range.
I am no P expert, and don’t know what years offer what necks, but other then my Pete Wentz Sig Squire P bass, with a Jazz neck, I always expect to pick up a P bass and be ready to get down on one of the fattest necks around.
I guess I need to learn about P necks, the way I know more about Stingray models and necks.
I just don’t have any to relate to.
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I will just for fun point out that 12" in a foot means it’s evenly divisible by 2,3,4,6.
After everyone converted to the superior base 10 system they shortly converted right back to a base 12 system using metric units because the construction math works out easier.
A plywood sheet in Europe is 2440mm x 1220mm, evenly divisible by 12 and 16.
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And European piping consists of metric conversions of imperial sizes (3/4, 1 and 2 - 19, 25 and 50 ID). Nails, at least in Poland, can also be bought in inch lengths.
The standard caliber of non-nato armies is 7.62… which is the old 0.300.
Yes, base 10 and metrique is so much better for science, but for everyday use and for machining imperial is just as good, and sometimes better.
As I’ve stated before, whatever you are used to and whatever you will make fewer mistakes in is the system that’s better for any one, and the population at large.
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Yeah, I have no real preference because I’ve spent so much time working in both. The US based project design office I worked in for a project that would ultimately be built in Tokyo was a big long open space (former warehouse) built out with office cubicles. They painted a ruler in meters down the mezzanine face the entire length of the building. It really helped me re-calibrate my brain to what those numbers physically mean. Everyday, I’d look up at it and think about what it looked like to see something 50 meters away.
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An that’s really key, isn’t it? Being able to translate the unit into something you can tangibly picture or grasp.
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