Damn all, a MBA (Made by Al) Cutlass as well.
Man, I want one of those when I get home from my forced holiday.
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Thinking about it for sure. I just don’t know how. I’ll look it up.
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Got it Toby.
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My thoughts exactly 
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@Al1885 we’ll make it Toby’s “graduation” gift. I’ll foot the bill. Gives us some time to perfect them. Hahahaha. We got you @T_dub
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That sounds great. @Reasonably_Happy
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String tree ?
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yep. When I bought the neck, it wasn’t included. Terry noticed.
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It wasn’t included on my brand new MIM neck either. I guess if you want to put a bar retainer that holds down 3 strings then they leave it open to the customer?
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Your neck didn’t come with any hardware did it? I would be surprised if it even came with a neckplate.
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No, I think it goes back to Leo’s original idea about parts being replaceable. So if a neck becomes twisted you replace the neck and swap out the hardware from the old twisted neck.
As opposed to a fixed neck on say a Gibson where the whole guitar becomes garbage / a huge PIA to replace a set neck.
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Nope. For as expensive as it was, the neck didn’t have anything. I suspect @Barney is right about Fender wanting stuff to be replaceable. It would have been nice though, since it IS a Jazz neck. I don’t recall seeing any without a string tree or retainer.
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Finally got back to work on bass number 10, hollow electric Spanish, single cut:
Made from high quality skip sourced beech and iroko but needing some ‘pazazz’, so I chanced my arm and bought £15 worth of spherical rosewood veneer, which was so thin it arrived rolled up.
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@Al1885 just like that brother!!
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Wow, that veneer is gorgeous, can’t wait to see how it turns out.
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Looks great, like it was purpose made for that bass alone.
Nice work
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How do you like the paranormal? I tried one out the other day and its tempting
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I like it a lot. The separate tone knobs for each pickup make it pretty versatile. I may end up replacing the pickups but that’s just me. I like to unbalance my pickups on a Jazz Bass and that creates hum with the single coils that are in it now.
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