'62 500/5... blonde and gorgeous

[ilan]

1962 Höfner 500/5 - blonde with diamond logo pickups on eBay (no affil.)  $4,100 BIN

[Highlander]

B E A utiful, but well out of my league...

[Pilgrim]

B E A utiful, but well out of my league...

Took the words right out of my cheap-o mouth!

[dadagoboi]

Neck's too wide for me.

[Dave W]

Neck's too wide for me.

Yeah, those pencil necks always did look out of place on the wider bodies.

Nice top, though.

[ilan]

1 5/8" nut. Like a P bass.

[dadagoboi]

1 5/8" nut. Like a P bass.

P bass nut was 1.75 in '62, I refuse to acknowledge the 'modern' width.

Actually my main problem would be string spacing at the bridge.  And to a lesser extent below the 12th fret where the G is too close to the neck edge IMO.

Very beautiful bass and tempting, though.

[slinkp]

I have a friend who has one of these... really cool bass but indeed I found it hard to play with such a skinny neck and close string spacing. She had tiny hands though, so it worked great for her.

[ilan]

You can get used to it quickly. Stanley Clarke plays a short scale and he has huge hands.

[dadagoboi]

You can get used to it quickly. Stanley Clarke plays a short scale and he has huge hands.

Short scale and narrow neck are two different things.  It's a matter of preference, not 'getting used to'. 

[Granny Gremlin]

Preference is just a measure of how willing (or not) one is to get used to something different. 

G string too close to fretboard edge is not a matter of preference; it's a show stopper (though I personally don't know if that's the case here - looks close, but I've never played one). ... how close is too close is somewhat variable by player.

[dadagoboi]

Preference is just a measure of how willing (or not) one is to get used to something different. 

That may be in your definition of preference but it isn't mine.  I prefer the conventional one.

[Granny Gremlin]

Can you ever just let a joke be a joke?...  and actually the conventional definition of preference is what I said as opposed to 'will not do any other way.'  One can have a strong or slight preference - it's a scale; something that is favored over an alternative; that is liked better; or that one would choose over the alternative, and not, that nothing else will do at all ever (necessarily - that is just one extreme of the scale).

[dadagoboi]

I love jokes, especially when nitwits try to tell them.

[Highlander]

Ah... size matters...