Jean-Luc Pickguard

My playing is like the cafeteria at chernobyl: not great, not terrible

I wonder how the knot is holding up six years on

Whether tort looks right or not depends on the tort - it can look like attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion, like a dirt protest, or anything between. The one on the gold ashbird appears to be positioned towards the latter end of that spectrum.

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Not sure. If it is a Squier the curvy headstock point to it being a bottom of the range job like an affinity P bass, although I don't think the affinity was available as early as 1995 but there may have been an equivalent. Whatever it is the whole bass it came off would probably be worth £100 at most so £69 for just the neck is too much in my opinion.

very nice! sounds exactly like a good precision should.

I'll list the main red flags that caught my eye, without having to look too hard: The shape of the headstock is wrong - it looks slightly bigger & more curvy like a 70's strat, but not so exterme. The width at the nut appears to be more like a jazz but this is labelled as a precision - Fender have made some precisions with a jazz-style neck, but I'm not sure whether this is the case for any MiM ones, so this on its own wouldn't necessarily be proof of a fake. The decal is a very poor fake - the letters of 'Precision bass' are distorted in different directions for some unknown reason - Fender never did that. The access hole for the truss rod tool is too wide. On a genuine Fender would have a fillet made of a dark wood (probably walnut) plug with a hole in it. On the back of the headstock the fake 'Made in Mexico' & serial decal looks nothing like it would on a genuine fender - it is using the wrong typeface and dimensions. The tuners look similar to the ones typically used on a MiM but appear to be possibly a cheaper type.

I am very disappointed that not one person so far has made the obvious comment about how much this product sucks. edit: ubit kind of went there but took a slightly different and more risqué direction.

Good for metal?

Here is a tracing of my original 1972 pickguard

Lovely tone & playing on the mustang bass.

I had a coloursound tonebender back in the late 70s/early 80s. I think I sold it for a tenner.

This sounds like a great project. I've recently changed my tenor guitar to 'Chicago' tuning - equivalent to the top 4 of a guitar (or baritone uke). As the scale length is shorter I used heavier strings than I would for a normal six string . You can get a good idea of which strings should work well with the tool at http://chordgen.rattree.co.uk/tensiontool.php eg for a balanced eight string with a 15" scale length (like a tenor uke) using steel strings:

The headstock on the thunderbird vintage pro is a good bit longer than other thunderbirds I've owned. The tuners on Bigthumb's Precision are Hipshot HB2s https://hipshotproducts.com/collections/bass-tuning/products/hb2-bass-tuning-machine I have a set with lollipop paddles on the fretless bitzer precision I built. The HB7s have a smaller plate and are the ones made to fit on Mexican Fenders.

This is the 60s-style Gotoh non-reverse GB640 res-o-lite set on one of my thunderbirds. I used to have an MIJ 62 reissue precision - it always seemed a bit strange to me that it was fitted with 70s style tuners rather than ones that looked like these.

I wonder who that used to belong to...

Take your Bronco to someone who can show you how to set it up, or have a look at this:

The tuners bigthumb want to remove are the type you want Pirellithecat - maybe you can do a deal? Bigthumb, you will need to drill extra holes to go from 70s to 60s style tuners as the holes aren't the same place on both. Also the pure vintage and others made on the same way have folded over tabs on the back which will prevent the tuners fitting flush to the back of the headstock unless you make shallow holes/dimples to accomodate them. For 60s style tuners I'm a big fan of Gotoh GB640 res-o-lites - I have fitted these to both of my Epiphone Vintage Pro Thunderbirds where they look fantastic. Although they are more expensive than most, these are lightweight and flat on the back of the plate. Unlike other 60s-style tuners they are available in non-reverse wind and reverse wind versions - I use the non-reverse version so they work like the tuners on my other basses.

upright - Willie Dixon Electric - Duck Dunn

Looks like its been played by Edward Scissorhands and his cousins Charlie Chiselfingers & Harry Hammerthumb

I've used Thomastik JF 324 flats on my CIJ mustang which were a perfect fit

Something much like a precision, but a little shorter and a lot cooler. In other words Leo's greatest creation - the mighty mustang bass.

or possibly one of these http://www.basscentre.com/british-bass-masters/the-bass-centre-lizzy-bass.html

I would guess that the tremoloish sound is possibly due to the magnetic pull on the strings - lowering the pickups into the body might help with that