VintR

After many years with a Jazz, I've recently bought a Precision PJ. I prefer the P-bass, but I still have a J bridge pickup.

[quote name='Graham S' timestamp='1510251799' post='3405080'] I don't know about the basses, but I had a Columbus Les Paul for a while in the late 70s and it wasn't all that great. I replaced it with a Hohner Strat, which despite being plywood was a far superior guitar. [/quote] My brother's first electric guitar was a black Columbus Les Paul. It looked great, but it was bad. A good set up would have probably improved it, but he bought a nice Ibanez Artist instead.

I bought a sunburst Columbus Jazz from a music shop in Shaftesbury Avenue in 1977 (there were many there then, but now it’s Chinatown overspill) and I still have it, although it’s in pretty poor condition. The body is solid, heavy, low quality wood, but the neck (although damaged) is dead straight and the truss rod works OK. The frets are worn flat in places. The action is sky high with the saddles nearly flat on the bridge. I recently bought a Squier Vintage Modified Precision PJ. I prefer the P-bass shape and the additional J bridge pickup gives a good range of sounds. However, the tuners don’t seem to work very well and it could do with better strings.