LemonCello

"The sound of wood" is the company's strap line. I had a Corvette $$ a while ago and it did sound immense due to the huge MEC pick ups positioned right in the middle of the body. Long and short is that you can get one to sound like almost anything!

[quote name='gub' timestamp='1345903295' post='1782944'] Also quite like the dings they pick up throughout there life, bit like us and wrinkles ! Also you could pick it out as yours if you had to [/quote] Aye....true! As for pics, whats the score with uploading here, I've tried and it says I've exceeded my 30mb upload limit???? Is that a site thing? LC

Saturday morning update! So after a night on the wine, the door bell went at 8.30 and the parcel express dude was standing there with the box. I could have done with a nit more of a lay in the sleep off my hangover, but hey, that soon disappeared! Getting it out of one of the new SKB's (very substantial), it does have a very slight 'knock' on the back. I suspect it has been looked at in the shop and picked up this ding there as one end of the box was taped up. That really makes it an ex demo and therefore it should have been cheaper but I guess it was already £100 cheaper than the one in Dawsons so I'll live with it. The finish is superb with the lovely ash grain showing thru, although I suspect that this particular finish will 'ding' easily and will show. The build quality looks good. I like the rolled fingerboard edges which gives it a 'played in' feel and the neck pocket looks super tight. One thing that irritates me about new Fenders is the fag of having to take the knobs and retaining washers off in order to peel off the pickguard film. The polishing cloth supplied also leaves yellow fluff all over the place so that has gone in the bin, replaced by a lint free cloth - no fluff! I've spent the last hour noodling to some Stones numbers and first impressions are very positive. The bass has a very satisfying dry, dubby thump which is typically Precision, but you don't get it on all of them. The tone is warm and importantly 'even' across the strings and rolling up the tone knob produces a nice 'bite' or 'edge', quite growly actually. The neck is comfy with a matt finish, headstock is varnished. I haven't put it on the scales yet but it feels nicely balanced and certainly not battleship heavy, which I expected as Ash tends to weigh a little more than Alder. Again, the strap supplied will be great on a 6 string electric but too narrow for a bass, why do they supply straps like that for basses? The real test will be band practice. Unfortunately, our drummer is on hols for a week so that will have to wait a bit. All in all, I'm very happy, with only slight irritation at that tiny 'ding' on the back, there were only 9 of these that found there way into the UK (apparently) so, nothing I can do really. LC

The bass gallery has one with not quite so nice a 'top' on it for £999

I bought one and moved it on shortly afterward. The pick up poles were badly out of alignment and try as I might I couldn't get itany better. Had some rough fret edges too. It did sound pretty reasonable to be fair, but the build issues put me off. I do realise that this can happen with any bass at any price. The VM Jazz I had seemed to be way above the P for build quality and the Duncan designed jazz pups sounded superb! I bought the P blind so my fault! LC

Good score dude!

Hey Debs, I know what you mean. I used to contort my chops when I was playing the 'cello? I don't believe I do that whilst playing bass, but you'd know as you've seen it??? I think it may have been to do with concentrating on intonation which of course you don't struggle with on a fretted bass. What's the story on Gentleman Jack - seen it but not tried it yet? Our guitarist reckons it's a lot smoother than regular jack? BTW, I'm a huge Floyd fan too and love playing Comfortably Numb to relax too........glass of jack in one hand! LC

Where'd I get Ben from? Clearly an age thing!, sorry Dan, I'll report back on Saturday! LC

[quote name='danweb22' timestamp='1345574087' post='1779058'] Welcome to the club [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/183334-nbd-fender-fsr-am-std-precision/page__fromsearch__1"]http://basschat.co.u...__fromsearch__1[/url] [/quote] Nice one Ben, can I expect good things and is the pup a standard AM or a custom shop as on the new standards? Cheers, LC

[quote name='silddx' timestamp='1345561728' post='1778868'] I don't imagine LC's pop/rock covers band will go down too well will a Roger Miret cover singer [/quote] Erm...........no!

Sorry to hear that Debs. Someone has got in touch with me today from 'join my band' and he sounds like he has the right credentials so were gonna try him out week after next when our drummer gets back from his hols and he's had a look at the set. Fingers crossed! Good luck with your band too, never seems to be easy does it? LC

Good score Ben!

DV24 is minus the only one of these they are gonna get! Arriving Saturday! I know, I know, it's just an American Standard with a hand finished Ash body...but I like it! LC

[quote name='LiamPodmore' timestamp='1345404192' post='1777177'] Squier Vintage Modified would be my choice. Liam [/quote] Aye! They under promise but over deliver in almost every way.

Thanks Debb sies! Yeah, last nites gig did it. Were on the lookout on Join my Band and elsewhere, but good rock singers are few and far between! LC

Ha, yeah mine too. Love a trip there, an Aladdin's cave of temptation!