Hahahaha, you’re funny 
Lot’s of space … even with limited spatial imagination it should be clear that it will also work with a wider neck (P-bass)! The difference between 38mm and 42mm is negligible…
In bot cases, no part of the tuner (Hipshot or not) touches the hanger. It’s 100% the same as without a Hipshot extender.
Do you want pics? I have the same bass with and without a Hipshot extender…
When was this ever an argument at BassBuzz for anything?
Why have a 1000++ € bass when you could play just as well on a 300++€ bass?Why have a few basses or even many, if you could play on one bass just as well?
Some people even have the same bass model twice…
The “added expense” argument is thinking like an accountant, not like a (wanna be) rock star 
Ok, tried it with my P-bass, which has a thick 42mm neck and also has a Hipshot extender.
Lot’s of space, no problem!
(I had to turn it around for the picture - when I hang it correctly it’s even better).
A pitch shifter just tunes down the whole frequency range, so to speak. It does not tune down based on individual strings, like only the E-string.
So here, @barney is actually right!
You can use it to tune down to Eb standard etc.
I haven’t heard a great pitch shifter yet though, so tuning down strings - either manually or with a Hipshot extender is the best way.
Thanks for taking time out of your day to confirm that your current arrangement of wall hanger and Hipshot extender work for you.
On a scale of 1 to 10, I’m currently at 11 on how happy that makes me. Have a cookie.
The tuners on your P Bass copy are significantly smaller that the standard Fender tuners. So the lever sits higher up the headstock. The Hipshot BT7 extender has a lever which sits so low on the back that it doesn’t allow the bass to hang from the neck on a String Swing hanger. I know this because I bought an extender, installed it and ran into the problem.
Even if I place the lever in the on position the lever still doesn’t quite work without the tuner rubbing on the hanger.
What have we learned as a community?
The combination of a real Fender P Bass and String Swing hanger doesn’t work with a Hipshot Extender.
Enjoy the rest of your day hanging out in the park with the children or whatever it is you do on a Sunday.
We learned that this statement is not true:
But you tried to be right with narrowing it down to:
… actually meaning the
So, what you actually meant was: it didn’t work out with your specific bass, your specific Hipshot extender and your specific hanger. Which is not a very general statement that helps the community.
Cause: in most other cases it will work just fine!
It makes any discussion quite hard, when you keep changing premisses, just to be right, by the way.
Love those Black Tuners and String Tree on your Fender.
These
and this
No unfortunately that doesn’t work as a statement, because you don’t have a large enough data set.
You have a few similar branded basses (Harley Benton). So unless you own or have tried Fender, Gibson, Fodera, Mayones, Ibanez etc with an extender and every other possible wall hanger; then you can’t say with any degree of certainty that they will ‘work just fine’.
It’s not all about you.
