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I'd really like a Precision with a neck by m. Vigier!

Good looking axe! Slightly OT...why do some think that Basslines is some sort of second string to SD? Basslines IS SD. Yiou cannot buy, for example, a quarter-pound pickup that [u]doesn't[/u] have Basslines on it. That is something I, personally, find irritating, but it's not a different brand

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T.B. Player, welcome! Although I confess I'm saddened that TB didn't stand for Telecaster Bass!

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Welcome! I haven't been to la belle France properly since 1994. Time I paid another visit!

Oh yes. Now that I work in a guitar shop, I get to play many. Still not remotely influenced to move away from Leo's Finest! Even have a Squier now, and it, too, is a good bass.

[quote name='movwkd' post='47462' date='Aug 19 2007, 06:29 PM']i then removed the bridge and chucked that in my useless fender parts bin and put a badass 2 bridge on it ..[/quote] I cannot imagine what a Badass II is going to improve on a string-thru-body. Mass is meaningless, all you need is a good breakover. The stock bridge does that perfectly...

Odd...there's no good reason for a split-coil P to hum - it's a humbucking pickup. Unless it's been mis-wired. Jazz basses are fine so long as the relative volumes of the pickups are the same, as they are then also a humbucker, but that doesn't actually help a lot, so it's tinfoil/paint time. However, as Mr Turner said...

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And yes, I sound like a right boring old fart. So be it. Keep 'em clean! If nothing else, it will make your strings last longer. Dirt costs!

The major part of my rant was paying good money for someone else's muck...but I stick with the 'keep it clean' bit. An uncared-for, dirty instrument isn't rock'n'roll, it's bad maintenance and laziness.

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Homer is right about the mojo, too. To me, mojo is wear and tear. Fingerboard crud uncleaned for decades is just that - dirt. And as someone who services other people's instruments, I can tell you that it's not nice. Buying a dirty instrument shouldn't cost more money, but less. It's simply not been cared for. A cruddy bass is likely to be exactly that, due to lack of attention. As an example, no-one in their right mind would want to actually play Jamerson's Precision. He abused it thoroughly, and despite the great music he made on it, it would not be a good bass now. If you're lucky enough to pick up well-cared-for vintage stuff, and it works for you, well and good. But a dirty old bass is just that, and, unless you're very lucky, it will only ever be that. *Particular dislike* Dirty maple fingerboards - yuk! They're supposed to look clean! And, as they are far easier to keep clean, where's the excuse for not doing so? Keep your tools clean, people. You'll be so glad you did. Rant over, sorry!

Slap a P-bass? Why not? The Brothers Johnson from the 70s did it, and very well too. Having said that, I dislike slap, and do not like others slapping on my basses. Petty, maybe, butr there you are. As to the vintage thing, I wouldn't ever waste my money. Even pre-CBS Fenders are no better or worse than current models, by any reasonable comparison. And current 3-bolt re-issues are as stable as their 4-bolt partners. The idea wasn't wrong, just CBS-era Fender's implementation. CBS did not invent the three-bolters, they merely introduced it. Done correctly, it's a perfectly good joint, and Leo was rightly proud of it, for it was his, and he took it on right through to G&L. I would stack my 2004 MIM P against [u]any[/u] old Precision, and it would likely be as good, by any objective comparison. And I'll mojo mine the [b]proper[/b] way. By gigging it for a decade or two...

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