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[quote name='doctor_of_the_bass' post='397425' date='Feb 1 2009, 11:59 PM']Hallo Paul! That actual bass is perhaps the best Precision I've ever played - I set it up for Al, the previous owner and it plays like butter! The tone is articulate and powerful, almost verging on a StingRay for power! Cheers![/quote] hello yourself old friend..as you know it was your recomendation that made me shell out me hard earned, and im glad i did. incidently, john haire(our local luthier) looked at it and said you had made a blinding job of the set up which is praise indeed from the great man. btw quinny helped me up the stairs to get out of charters in the early hours sun morning with me flightcased ampeg head and mesa boogie cab( i think he may have lost an ovary doing it), and now reckons no matter how good and meaty my old rig sounds next to his pimped orange guitar amp and cab i should get a nice small peavey 90 combo or similar instead, lazy young bleeder that he is.. i will deffo post a full review when ive used it fior a few more gigs oldgit( we must be related mate ) once ive sussed it out a bit more and seen if hard use brings on any problems; im a heavy handed player and may be going up at least a guage to 105s once its burnt in a bit more, so we will see how the trussrod/neck/action copes with that, though in truth i mightnt bother, it sounds unbelievably fat on 100's, even the high end runs.

thanks guys, and hello young nick (i knew him when all this was just fields...), and i hope that black precision you added to your collection the day i got mine is still pleasuring you mightily .. glad theres a few fellow bikers on hear too, bikes an music do go hand in hand, especially with us old uns

[quote name='simon1964' post='395842' date='Jan 30 2009, 11:22 PM']That's not a weird tele/precison - the Mike Dirnt's are cracking basses! Very, very underatted IMO.[/quote] yup, its a good bit of kit alright. gigged it sat night, and the bloke who owned it before was there, told me he'd had it three years. i found this very reassuring, as the first thing i did when you guys told me what it was, was checked out all the online reviews, and it seemed you either got a really good one, or occasionally a really bad one, something i had already associated MIM basses with (perhaps unfairly).. any problems i had read about with the "tequila tuesday" ones had manifested fairly early on, so hopefully this one is as good as it looks. build quality and finish are really, really good, but the best thing is the tone, now ive had a chance to play it loud, through a decent rig(id only heard it in the local music shop where it was a customers private sale and at home thru me practice amp) with my limited tech knowledge, i'd hazard a guess that its a combination of the bulk and solidity of the un contoured slab ash body, the badass2 bridge, and mostly.. the Custom Vintage 59 Split Single-Coil Pickup..all in all, i'd deffo recommend this bass to anyone. bad bits so far..only one really, its a good job it sounds brilliant with vol and tone both set at eleven(no, this one goes up to eleven..;-)), because with the tone set back the other way, it just sounds plain weird, sort of hollow if you know what i mean. anyway, i love it, and unless this bloody depression makes it even more difficult to survive as a builder than it is doing now(1 days work last week :-( )its a keeper.

hello blokes 49 years old been playing bass since '76, gigging regular since err '76 (how clever we think we are when we are young lol) been on telly once(live and kicking) radio once (lite fm ) magazines regularly(sadly never as a bassist, i roadtest for "bike" magazine ) and thats all there is, the sum of my existence.. apart from, always, always loved playing bass far more than any other instrument, been playing with the same drummer(blanty) for last 12 years and three bands, which is a godsend because he is bloody brilliant and makes me sound far better than i actually am. and he always makes me laugh, which as you know, is more important than anything being in a band. a kid in the music shop asked me what its like being in a band once.. i told him "its tough..like being married, but without the sex. actually, its just like being married..." bet he ignored my sagely advice, joined a band, then got married...

aaah...signature models..of course.. thanks guys you know that thing, where just a few minutes after you asked a stupid question, you really really wish you hadnt and know you will be remembered for it eternally..;-) mr dirnt is a good geezer, ive always loved the look and attitude of a tele bass, to have one with a standard precision tone and lovely slim jazz neck is genious imho it will be tried out properly at tomorrow nights gig an me trusty jazz will be having a well earned rest thanks again blokes

hullo fellow humans, i bought a bass today because it played and looked and sounded lovely, and came up second hand at what i thought was a good price..its a telecaster or 51 precision bass i think, but strangely, doesnt have either the single pick up of a 51, or the humbucker looking pick up of a tele, its got standard precision pickups(the kind that look like two piggy backing but are actually one)..other clues..its not that old, got spaghetti fender precion bass on the headstock and is a gringo(made in mexico), its very heavy, got pukka alnico magnets in the p/u's, has got a badass2 brige that is fitted as standard and its in a sort of tv yellow with white scratchplate. also it sounds proper, very warm and not too toppy..any ideas what model it is guys? ive never seen one like this before :-) thanking you..oh, and im going to try myhand at putting a pic on..