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Jono Bolton

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  1. Jono Bolton
    A Gary Jarman Sig has just turned up on eBay, but you'll never guess the asking price. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/186013435791?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=W2i0Yn-fRum&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=UbetCfLcTBW&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY
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    Matt Freeman of Rancid had a signature Precision that he often used live, as well as his vintage Fenders. I had both the black and white versions and they're the only basses I truly regret selling.
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    I was tempted to put a bid in on it but I remembered that I'd had the same one before and it was a bit too heavy for me. It was a great bass though
  4. Jono Bolton
    Was that a recent eBay purchase, perchance?
  5. Jono Bolton
    If they sort out the nut width on the Bass VI I'd be very tempted. I've got the Squier VI but it's way too narrow at the nut for 6 strings
  6. Jono Bolton
    Tuner holes are right for an SQ. I had an SQ neck that was excellent, but unfortunately had taken a bend that I couldn't correct.
  7. Jono Bolton
    It was a Musicmaster I had. It all felt a bit too small. My worry is that the frets will feel too close together, and the position of the bridge is where I would normally put my hand on the likes of a P.
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    I'm very tempted by these but I'll need to try it out before I buy one. I've only had one short scale experience and it wasn't for me.
  9. 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
  11. Jono Bolton
    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
  13. Jono Bolton
    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.
  14. 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.
  15. Jono Bolton
    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
  16. Jono Bolton
    Price dropped to £75 posted, and I'll chuck in a squeaky clean black set of covers for it as well.
  17. Jono Bolton
    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.
  18. Jono Bolton
    They could have at least tuned the bass before recording the video
  19. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. Jono Bolton
    I'm leaning towards shell pink at the minute, but do I need two pink basses?
  23. Jono Bolton
    These are the sort of things that keep me up at night, Ped.
  24. Jono Bolton
    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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