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  1. Jono Bolton
    Sometimes you just get an itch for something different and it's only with hindsight that you realise that you should have probably stuck with what you had. I sold a USA Fender Precision years ago and used the proceeds to build a Jazz from parts that was pretty underwhelming. Last year I sold a MIJ Precision and built another 50s-style P. The new bass is nice, but after finishing the build I realised that I'd have probably been better off keeping the MIJ. Perhaps the moral of the story is that I shouldn't build my own bitsas.
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    The Creamery also does proper Wide Range Humbuckers if you fancied and upgrade: https://www.creamery-pickups.co.uk/classic-75-starcaster-bass-tele-wide-range-bass-humbucker-set.html
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    A guy I follow on Instagram posted that they were showing briefly on the Fender website, but weren't available anywhere and were taken down. Possibly a CME/Anderton's exclusive like the some of the Bass VI models were. I wouldn't get it myself; the "Shell Pink" used by Fender nowadays isn't pastel enough to be Shell Pink IMO
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    There's also a shell pink one
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    Sent my P Bass build away to David Wilson for a refinish. It was 3-tone sunburst, but is now sonic blue. The picture doesn't pick up the true colour, it's a fair bit lighter in real life. It's got a light relic finish, similar to the Fender Journeyman CS relics. Specs are: a Fender MIJ 70s P body, Fender Road Worn 50s P neck, Creamery Classic '58 pickup, Fender anodised aluminium pickguard, ashtrays, knobs, and tugbar, Squier JV reverse gear tuners, Hosco threaded saddle bridge, and Gotoh strap buttons, string tree, and neck plate.
  6. Jono Bolton
    Are dings more likely to happen with basswood? It's still got several layers of finish over it, which will pick up marks before the wood does.
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    Lovely. Mine would have been sunburst originally, but has had at least 2 resprays now. Nice to see what it would have looked like originally
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    Price dropped to £75 posted, and I'll chuck in a squeaky clean black set of covers for it as well.
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    Funnily enough, it was almost exactly as expensive as I expected it to be; not that I think it's probably worth that much, just that everything new seems overpriced to me these days.
  10. Jono Bolton
    They could have at least tuned the bass before recording the video
  11. Jono Bolton
    I bought these back in December for my P Bass build but I've decided not to stick with them. The link to the original sale thread is below as I'm not in the house at the minute, but they're as they were when I received them. They work perfectly fine and sound good, but I'm going to swap it for the same Creamery pickup as I have in my JV Precision. One thing to point out is that I felt that the white wire was a little short. It can be soldered to the pot, but it was a bit fiddly. My P has separate routs for the pickup and control cavities, so the wire needs to be fed through a small hole to go from one to the other, but if you've got a channel running between the two as a lot of modern basses have, it should be easier (or maybe I'm just a bit ham-fisted). Price is the same as I paid, and includes postage.
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    Also, if anyone knows where I can get a spare screw cap/cover, please let me know. One is missing and Ashdown said they no longer stock replacements as the ones they use now are a different size.
  13. Jono Bolton
    I've just downsized from my Peavey Century and Ampeg 1x15 to an ABM Evo II 300 C-110; I don't gig anymore so I don't need anything that size. I picked it up last night but haven't had a chance to play through it properly, other than when I tested it out at the seller's house last night. I had the ABM Evo II 300 head many moons ago, so I'm quite familiar with it. It certainly feels strange having such a small amp in the house now.
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    I'm leaning towards shell pink at the minute, but do I need two pink basses?
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    These are the sort of things that keep me up at night, Ped.
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    Black and blonde for reference:
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    I put this together at the end of last year after I bought a Fender Roadworn 50s Precision neck in the Black Friday sale. I was going for a '57 vibe but the body is a Fender MIJ 70s P body in 3-tone sunburst, which isn't strictly accurate. Initially I was going to go for black, though I've swayed towards blonde, and 2-tone sunburst, although there is a visible join and change in grain between the 2 pieces of the body. I like the idea of Shell Pink, but I've already refinished my JV Precision in the same colour. I love Sonic Blue, but it's also not strictly correct for the period. If I'm refinishing it, then the options are limitless really, so I thought I'd canvas opinion on here and see if there are any suggestions that I haven't thought of myself.
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    I sold Ander a mint pickguard for his P Bass. He paid quickly and was very easy to deal with.
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    That's neat. I don't think I've ever seen a white one; I thought the 57s only came in 2-tone sunburst or black.
  20. Jono Bolton
    The Classic Vibes had a sticker on the pickguard cling film, but I don't recall if the Vintage Modifieds also did: Vintage Modified and Classic Vibe were just the names of two of Squier's ranges of instruments. VMs were made in Indonesia, and CVs were made in China, and in my experience, the Classic Vibes were better quality, but a bit more expensive. A few years ago Squier disconnected the Vintage Modified range, and moved production of the CVs to Indonesia, so the current Classic Vibes are somewhere between the original Classic Vibes and Vintage Modifieds of 10-15 years ago. Also, only Squiers were with Vintage Modified or Classic Vibe, Fenders weren't (although the Fender Modern Player range were made in the same factory as the Classic Vibes were)
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    NBD

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    I had a Matt Freeman in both colours. I sold the black one a while ago, and the white one last year. I wish I'd kept one of them, they're excellent basses.
  22. Jono Bolton
    I think it is the picture. The E is the same distance from the edge all the way down the fretboard, whereas you can see the G is closer to the edge of the fretboard at the heel than it is at the nut as you look down the neck:
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    Yes, I probably worded it incorrectly; the spacing seems fine, but it's over to the left as you look at it. What makes you say it's not fitted straight? It seems fine to me in the flesh, so it could just be the picture.
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    As far as I can tell, what's the best way to check? The body is a Fender CIJ PB70 Reissue, so it was already drilled for the bridge holes.
  25. Jono Bolton
    I tried to get the picture as 'flat' as I could so there wasn't any camera angle-related distortion. The E is an even distance from the edge of the fretboard all the way down the neck, whereas the G is nearer to the edge of the neck at the heel than it is at the nut
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